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8 Hardworking ISRO Women Scientists Who Are Breaking


The Space Ceilings With Their Work
Vinay Devnath - 16th February 2017

Behind every successful man, there is a woman.

Lets just tweak it a little bit.

Behind every successful space mission in India, there are a thousand woman scientists.

India has successfully launched satellites into space, put an orbiter around the Moon and Mars. That too with a
frugality even the developed nations admire.

But behind the scenes, away from the public eye, quiet, unassuming and positively brilliant women spearhead
many important missions of the Indian Space Research Organisation. These women have not only broken the
glass ceilingsbut have not even thought of the sky as their limit quite literally.

They are passionate, strong and independent women of science that look like our neighborhood aunties, but pack
a scienti c punch that would impress the likes of Tony Stark and Elon Musk. Today, lets take a look at the women
in ISRO.

1. Ritu Karidhal, mother of two worked on most weekends, brainstorming with ISRO engineers
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As a kid, Mrs. Ritu Karidhal used to wonder why the moon becomes bigger and smaller. She also wondered what
lay in the dark side of the moon.

And decades later, she became the Deputy Operations Director of the Mars Orbiter Mission. After reading each
and everything related to space science as a kid, she now heads one of the most well-known missions of ISRO.

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2. Moumita Dutta read about the Chandrayaan mission as a student, now works as a Project
Manager for the Mars Mission

She is the project manager for payloads for the Mars Mission. She completed her M. Tech in Applied Physics from
the University of Kolkata.

Today, she leads a team to make indigenious progress in optical sciences as a part of Make in India initiative.

THE ENTIRE MISSION HAS 20% OF WOMEN SCIENTISTS DEEPLY INVOLVED IN THE MARS
MISSION

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3. Nandini Harinath her rstjob was at ISRO and 20 years later there is no looking back

She became inspired to study science after she saw the Star Trek series. Coming from a family of teachers and
engineers, she was naturally drawn to science and technology.

Today as a Deputy Director, she feels proud to see the Mars Orbiter Mission on the new 2000 rupee notes.
She works extremely hard, and despite having children, she did not go home for days just before the launch.
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Thats called commitment.

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4. Anuradha TK As a Geosat Programme Director, she is the senior-most woman ocer at ISRO

She rst thought about becoming a space scientist when she was just 9 years old. That was when Neil Armstrong
rst walked on the moon, and Mrs. Anuradha was hooked.
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As the senior-most o cer, she is the inspiration for every woman scientist working in ISRO. As a student,she loved
the logical subjects as compared to the subjects in which she had to memorise everything. Today, she applies the
same logical brain to head one of the most important departments in ISRO.

Sometimes I say that I forget that Im a woman here. Youre treated as an equal here.

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5. N Valarmathi led the launch ofIndias rst indigenously developed the radar imaging satellite,
the RISAT-1

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She was the second woman after T K Anuradha to head a satellite mission at ISRO. At 52, she has made her state
of Tamil Nadu proud.

She is the rst woman to head a mission that involves a remote sensing satellite.

Too cool.

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6. Minal Sampath, worked 18 hours a day for the Mars Orbital Mission

She led a team of 500 scientists as a systems engineer at ISRO. For two years, she said goodbye to Sundays and
even national holidays.

The sacri ce showed fruit when she was overjoyed with the success of the Mars Mission.

Whats next? She aims to become the rst woman director to head a national space agency. A hardworking
woman like that, ngers crossed!

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7. Kriti Faujdar computer scientistwho works at the Master Control Facility, keeping satellites in
their proper orbits

Kriti Faujdar is a part of the team that monitors the satellites and the other missions continuously. She is the
person that makes the corrections if something goes wrong.

Her work shifts are erratic too. On some days she has a day shift and on some, it is from dusk to dawn. She is
unfazed by this because she loves her job.
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She wants to pursue MTech in the future to be a better scientist for ISRO in the future.

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8. Tessy Thomas the missile woman of India who headed the Agni IV and Agni V mission

Tessy Thomas technically works for the DRDO and not ISRO, but she deserves to be on this list. We could not leave
her out.

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It is her hard work and dedication that has brought India close to becoming a member of the exclusive club of
countries with ICBMs (Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles). Because of her achievements, she is fondly called
Agniputri by the media.

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Today, there are more than 16,000 women working for ISRO and the number is growing every day. It is easy to
imagine ISRO completely comprised of women because all 7 heads have been men.

But the fact is that thousands of women work hard for our premier space agency.

For these women, even sky is not a limit.

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