Nandini Harinath

Nandini Harinath is a scientist.

at ISRO's (Indian Space Research Organisation) Satellite Centre in Bengaluru.^[1] She is a part of the Mars Orbiter Mission, Mangalyaan . She has co-authored a research paper on mission planning, analysis and operations—Outline of key components. .

Life

Nandini's first exposure to science was the popular series Star Trek on television. Her mother is a maths teacher and her father is an engineer and as a family, they were all interested in science fiction and Star Trek.^[2]

She has two daughters and a niece .^[3]

Career

ISRO was the first job that Nandini applied to and now it's been 20 years.^[2] She has worked on 14 missions over 20 years at ISRO.^[1] She is the Project Manager, Mission Designer^[4] and served as deputy operations director on the Mars Orbiter Mission, also called Mangalyaan.

Publications

1. A Mechanism for Observed Interannual Variabilities over the Equatorial Indian Ocean^[5]
2. Resourcesat-1 mission planning, analysis and operations—Outline of key components^[5]