K Sivan 63rd Birthday: Lesser Known Facts About ISRO Chief and Force Behind India's Chandrayaan 2 Mission
Sivan, an aerospace engineer, joined ISRO in 1982 and was inducted into PSLV Project, which served as a foundation for the launch of several key space vehicles including GSLV MkII & MkIII including RLV-TD. He is the chief architect of 6D trajectory simulation software, SITARA, which is the backbone of the real-time trajectory simulations of all ISRO launch vehicles.