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EARLY LIFE

• Born on 14 April 1957 in a village in Tamil NaduK. Sivan was born in Mela Sarakkalvilai, near Nagercoil in Kanyakumari district Sivan was the first in his family to graduate from college
• He studied at a Tamil medium school and has often said that he wore footwear for the first time only when he went to college at the Madras Institute of Technology.
• His parents are Kailasa Vadivu and mother Chellam. Sivan is known for his significant contribution to the development of cryogenic engines, for India’s space programme.
• Sivan graduated with a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Madras Institute of Technology in 1980. He then got a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1982, and started working in ISRO

ISRO

• He earned a doctoral degree in aerospace engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2006. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Aeronautical Society of India and the Systems Society of India.
• He began his career working on the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), India’s space workhorse that has launched India’s first lunar probe, Chandrayaan-1, first interplanetary mission, the Mars orbiter, and India’s first space observatory, Astrosat

ROCKET MAN

• Rising through the ranks, Sivan became the director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, in 2015, and subsequently came to be called “Rocket Man” because of his contributions in the development of cryogenic engines.
• The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark III — India’s most powerful rocket that successfully launched the Chandrayaan-2 mission in July — runs on cryogenic engines.
• Sivan was appointed the chief of ISRO in January 2018. It is under his chairmanship that ISRO planned and executed Chandrayaan-2.

 CHANDRAYAN 2

• Irrespective of the fate of the Vikram lander, the mission orbiter will continue to send back valuable data to Earth, revealing unknown insights from our natural satellite.
• Images from the mission, and possibly the landing site, will eventually inform scientists about what went wrong, and help ISRO prepare for its next mission. STUDY IQ

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