New Delhi: The command of ISRO’s Sun Mission is in the hands of a female scientist Nik Nigar Shaji. It is being discussed all over the world. After the success of the Chandrayaan mission, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has now sent its mission towards the Sun as well. Even within a short span of time, India presented two great examples of its space science to the world. India’s 59-year-old female scientist Nigar Shaji, who led the Sun mission, said, It is like a dream come true. We are confident that PSLV will be able to place our Aditya-L-1 in the right place. After this, this mission is going to give a lot not only to India but also to the world.
Nigar Shaji is a resident of Tenkasi district of Tamil Nadu and comes from a farmer’s family. She did her engineering in Electronics and Communication from Tirunelveli Government Engineering College and then completed her Masters from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi. Only after this in 1987 she joined Satish Dhawan Space Center. Later she joined the UR Rao satellite team.
According to the information, Shaji works as a communication and expert for interplanetary satellite programs. She is the Project Director of Surya Mission. Apart from this, she has also been the Associate Project Director of India’s remote sensing satellite ResourceSat-2A. Along with Shaji, another woman scientist has a big contribution in this mission. Her name is Annapurni Subramaniam. She is the director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics. The same institute has designed the main payload of the Aditya L-1 mission to study the Sun.
Subramaniam hails from a village in Palakkad district of Kerala. Her family belongs to music. Although she did her PhD in Physics from IIA. The design of VELC engaged in Adityan L-1 mission has been prepared under her leadership.
ISRO has launched its ambitious solar mission Aditya L-1. It has seven payloads with it. It will study the Sun by staying at the Lagrangian point L-1 at a distance of 1.5 million kilometers from the Earth. It is a point where anything will stop.
