Meet the star
M.Y.S. Prasad, associate director, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota :
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He was born in a village called 'Mogalturu' , West Godavari dist in Andhra pradesh.
He is responsible for launch pad preparation and filling of the liquid propulsion fuel that will send the polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) into space, carrying aloft India’s lunar orbiter Chandrayaan.
Out of his 33 years with ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation), he has worked nearly 20 years in developing launch vehicles.
He was part of the team that successfully launched India’s first satellite vehicle SLV3.
As part of the rocket team, Mr.Prasad has contributed significantly in the areas of avionics systems, payload augmentation and interfacing and ground station networks.
He played a major role in introducing key technologies into ISRO’s launch vehicles, mainly in Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle (ASLV), to make them reliable and robust.
“The learning of SLV3 and ASLV while designing the PSLV is that the first stage has to be well configured " he quotes.
He credited the late S.Srinivasan, former director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, for designing PSLV’s first stage which takes the rocket 50 km above the earth.
Prasad is an ISRO all rounder, having worked in various departments - launch vehicle, satellite design, managing India’s geostationary orbit satellites or communication satellites and also as space counsellor at Indian embassy in Paris, interacting with major European space agencies.
As the director of the Mission Control Facility (MCF), he was instrumental in ISRO increasing its transponder lease rentals by eliminating interference in satellite signals.
For some time, ISRO was losing money as five of its transponders were not earning their full potential owing to signal disturbances.
He studied the issue and on one night we traced the disturbance to a loose connection in one of the V-Sat terminals located in Kolkata.
He registered for a doctorate during his stint at MCF and got the Ph.D. for his research on interference in satellite communications.
Prasad was also instrumental in facilitating video conferencing between Indian scientists in Antarctica and their colleagues in Goa.
He was born in a village called 'Mogalturu' , West Godavari dist in Andhra pradesh.
He is responsible for launch pad preparation and filling of the liquid propulsion fuel that will send the polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) into space, carrying aloft India’s lunar orbiter Chandrayaan.
Out of his 33 years with ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation), he has worked nearly 20 years in developing launch vehicles.
He was part of the team that successfully launched India’s first satellite vehicle SLV3.
As part of the rocket team, Mr.Prasad has contributed significantly in the areas of avionics systems, payload augmentation and interfacing and ground station networks.
He played a major role in introducing key technologies into ISRO’s launch vehicles, mainly in Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle (ASLV), to make them reliable and robust.
“The learning of SLV3 and ASLV while designing the PSLV is that the first stage has to be well configured " he quotes.
He credited the late S.Srinivasan, former director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, for designing PSLV’s first stage which takes the rocket 50 km above the earth.
Prasad is an ISRO all rounder, having worked in various departments - launch vehicle, satellite design, managing India’s geostationary orbit satellites or communication satellites and also as space counsellor at Indian embassy in Paris, interacting with major European space agencies.
As the director of the Mission Control Facility (MCF), he was instrumental in ISRO increasing its transponder lease rentals by eliminating interference in satellite signals.
For some time, ISRO was losing money as five of its transponders were not earning their full potential owing to signal disturbances.
He studied the issue and on one night we traced the disturbance to a loose connection in one of the V-Sat terminals located in Kolkata.
He registered for a doctorate during his stint at MCF and got the Ph.D. for his research on interference in satellite communications.
Prasad was also instrumental in facilitating video conferencing between Indian scientists in Antarctica and their colleagues in Goa.
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