Kerala Chapter Felicitates Team Chandrayaan
1/10/2009How project management helps India's moon mission to take off well.
India’s first scientific mission to be moon, Chandrayaan -1, was successfully launched on October 22, 2008. PMI Trivandrum, Kerala Chapter organized an event recently to felicitate the team that has made the country proud.
The function was held on November 23 at the Institution of Engineers Hall, Trivandrum. One of the main architects of this mission, G. Madhavan Nair, chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), was present at the function, along with senior ISRO officials. The function was jointly organized with Institution of Engineers, Kerala Centre; IEEE, Kerala Section; CSI Trivandrum Chapter and Aeronautical Society of India.
At the function, Mr. Nair said, “This project is an example of excellent team work and project execution from the ISRO team that comprised of more than 16,000 employees. The variation in the final landing of the Moon Impact Probe in the lunar south pole was just 10 seconds. This shows the excellent work of the ISRO team.”