* Government has today ( 12 January 2015)
appointed Kiran Kumar Alur Seelin, a key figure behind Mangalyaan, as the new
Secretary, Department of Space and the ISRO Chief for the next 3 yrs,
succeeding K. Radhakrishnan who superannuated on December 31.
* Appointments committee of the cabinet
(ACC) headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi cleared his name and subsequently
the order was issued.
* He who was a Director in the Space
Application Centre, will be Chairman of the Space Commission and Secretary, Department
of Space on re-employment on contract basis for the next three years.
* He joined ISRO in 1975 and has
contributed to the design and development of Electro-Optical Imaging Sensors
for Airborne, LEO and GEO platform based imaging sensors starting from Bhaskara
TV payload to the latest payloads for Chandrayaan-1 missions.
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