P Veeramuthuvel | |
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Born | Viluppuram, Tamil Nadu, India | 22 October 1976
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Occupation | Aerospace engineer |
Years active | 2014–present |
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Palanivel Veeramuthuvel (born 22 October 1976) is an Indian aerospace engineer who works for the Indian Space Research Organisation. He served as the project director of the Chandrayaan-3 mission. [1]
P Veeramuthuvel was born on 22 October 1976 in Viluppuram, Tamil Nadu, India. [2] He attended the railway school in Villupuram and earned a diploma in mechanical engineering from Ezhumalai Polytechnic College, Villupuram. He attended Sri Sai Ram Engineering College in Chennai for his Bachelor's degreee in Mechanical Engineering. He attended NIT Trichy for his Master of Engineering studies. [3]
Veeramuthuvel joined Lakshmi Engineering Works, Coimbatore as a senior engineer. He then joined the rotary wing research and design center of the helicopter division of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Bangalore. He joined ISRO in 2004, [4] where he worked on multiple projects and held various responsibilities, including planning for the second Mars Orbiter Mission. In parallel, he completed post-graduate studies at the IIT Madras. [5]
Veeramuthuvel has served as the deputy director of the ISRO's main office's Space Infrastructure Programme. [6] In 2019, he was appointed as the director of the Chandrayaan 3 mission. He succeeded Muthayya Vanitha, who oversaw the Chandrayaan-2 mission as its project director. He was also instrumental in the Chandrayaan-2 mission, coordinating with NASA on the project's prospects and science. [7]
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