NEW DELHI: An afternoon after signing contracts with two non-public firms and a public sector unit for making 27 satellites, Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has 'sacked' its Ahmedabad-based Space Application Centre director Tapan Misra.
An order issued via Isro chairman K Sivan on Thursday stated, “He is relieved of all different duties from the afternoon of July 19. He has been moved to the Isro headquarters in Bengaluru with immediate effect.”
While Misra has been designated ‘senior advisor’ reporting to the Isro chairman, Dipak Kumar Das, an affiliate director of SAC, has been appointed the director of the Ahmedabad centre.
Misra is known for his contribution to the making of a number of satellites including Risat 1 which assists in keeping a watch on India and its neighbours even in darkness and on cloudy days. Misra informed TOI quickly after his farewell at SAC that he would continue to serve Isro. “I have worked with Isro for 34 years. For me, Isro is larger than anyone. What I'm as of late is because of Isro. I can now not compromise with the image of the organisation at any cost.”
An Isro source stated Misra had variations with the chairman over the transfer to privatise Isro’s ventures. He had raised issues about the prolong within the launch of GSAT-11, which used to be called back from French Guiana in April this yr. Isro suffered an earlier setback when it lost communication link with GSAT-6A quickly after its launch in March.
Misra, who graduated in electronics and telecommunication engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta in 1984, worked for 3 decades at SAC sooner than taking up the reins of the centre on February 20, 2015.
The 57-year-old scientist, who braved brain cancer and used to be in coma for 10 days, is a workaholic. “Four days once I took 36 chemo classes and used to be discharged from hospital, I joined duty and worked for 10 hours,” he stated.
SAC below his leadership advanced a number of surveillance satellites like Risat and Cartosat, that are as of late utilized by the army and security agencies to control our adverse neighbours. “When we were busy development Cartosat, I informed my boys to work day and night as prolong of each and every minute used to be costing us a soldier at the border. And we proved our value via development the satellite in file time,” stated Misra
The engineer additionally performed a key position within the building of India’s personal navigation device. The miniaturised model of a chipset, which is needed in a navigation tool to get right of entry to navigiation satellite sign, used to be advanced below his leadership. So used to be the indigenous atomic clock, a essential generation used to measure exact locational data.
Misra additionally performed a key position within the building of a satellite-based early caution device for unmanned railway crossings. He used to be working on the first India-US satellite undertaking, (NISAR-Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar), which might help map the motion of earth sooner than a landslide.
An order issued via Isro chairman K Sivan on Thursday stated, “He is relieved of all different duties from the afternoon of July 19. He has been moved to the Isro headquarters in Bengaluru with immediate effect.”
While Misra has been designated ‘senior advisor’ reporting to the Isro chairman, Dipak Kumar Das, an affiliate director of SAC, has been appointed the director of the Ahmedabad centre.
Misra is known for his contribution to the making of a number of satellites including Risat 1 which assists in keeping a watch on India and its neighbours even in darkness and on cloudy days. Misra informed TOI quickly after his farewell at SAC that he would continue to serve Isro. “I have worked with Isro for 34 years. For me, Isro is larger than anyone. What I'm as of late is because of Isro. I can now not compromise with the image of the organisation at any cost.”
An Isro source stated Misra had variations with the chairman over the transfer to privatise Isro’s ventures. He had raised issues about the prolong within the launch of GSAT-11, which used to be called back from French Guiana in April this yr. Isro suffered an earlier setback when it lost communication link with GSAT-6A quickly after its launch in March.
Misra, who graduated in electronics and telecommunication engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta in 1984, worked for 3 decades at SAC sooner than taking up the reins of the centre on February 20, 2015.
The 57-year-old scientist, who braved brain cancer and used to be in coma for 10 days, is a workaholic. “Four days once I took 36 chemo classes and used to be discharged from hospital, I joined duty and worked for 10 hours,” he stated.
SAC below his leadership advanced a number of surveillance satellites like Risat and Cartosat, that are as of late utilized by the army and security agencies to control our adverse neighbours. “When we were busy development Cartosat, I informed my boys to work day and night as prolong of each and every minute used to be costing us a soldier at the border. And we proved our value via development the satellite in file time,” stated Misra
The engineer additionally performed a key position within the building of India’s personal navigation device. The miniaturised model of a chipset, which is needed in a navigation tool to get right of entry to navigiation satellite sign, used to be advanced below his leadership. So used to be the indigenous atomic clock, a essential generation used to measure exact locational data.
Misra additionally performed a key position within the building of a satellite-based early caution device for unmanned railway crossings. He used to be working on the first India-US satellite undertaking, (NISAR-Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar), which might help map the motion of earth sooner than a landslide.
Isro 'sacks' key spy sat maker, removes him as Ahmedabad centre chief
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