Mylswamy Annadurai
| Mylswamy Annadurai மயில்சாமி அண்ணாதுரை |
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M. Annadurai
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2 July 1958 Kothavadi, Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Residence | India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Fields | Aerospace Engineering |
| Institutions | Indian Space Research Organisation |
| Alma mater |
Government College of Technology, Coimbatore PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore Anna University of Technology, Coimbatore |
| Known for | Chandrayaan I, Chandrayaan-2, Mangalyaan, Indian space program |
| Spouse | Smt. Vasanthi Annadurai |
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Mylswamy Annadurai (born 2 July 1958 in Kodhawady near Pollachi in Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu, India) is a scientist with the Indian Space Research Organisation and currently serves as Director, ISRO Satellite Centre(ISAC), Bangalore. Prior to that, he was working as Programme Director for IRS&SSS (Indian Remote Sensing & Small, Science and Student Satellites) that include Chandrayaan-1, Chandrayaan-2, ASTROSAT, Aditya-1, Mars Orbiter Mission and many Indian Remote Sensing missions. Annadurai was listed among 100 Global thinkers of 2014 and tops the innovators list. Annadurai writes a regular column, "Kaiyaruge Sevvai". ("Mars is at our Reach") in the Tamil Daily Dina Thanthi. He is also available through Facebook.
Mylswamy Annadurai had his schooling in his native village Kodhawady. He has obtained a Bachelors in Engineering degree in the year 1980 from Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India and completed his master's degree in Engineering during 1982 from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore and Ph.D from Anna University of Technology, Coimbatore Tamil Nadu in India. He joined ISRO in 1982. As the Mission Director of INSAT missions, he had some of the original contributions to the INSAT systems maintenance.
India's first mission to Mars, the Mars Orbiter Mission, or Mangalyaan, reached the planet on 24 September 2014 completing its 300-day journey. While ISRO has been researching for a Mars mission for many years, the project was only approved by the government in August 2012. ISRO took over a year to work on the spacecraft and bring the project to implementation stage. The Mars Orbiter Mission was launched on 5 November 2013 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, on the country's east coast. After travelling 670 million kilometres, Mangalyaan is now set to study the surface features, morphology, mineralogy and Martian atmosphere to better understand the climate, geology, origin, evolution and sustainability of life on the planet. It is the most cost effective of all the missions sent to the planet by any other country costing India about $74 million.
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