Who is the current Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) ?
S. Somnath
S. Somanath was the Chairman of ISRO at the time of this examination — option 3.
His tenure. Sreedhara Panicker Somanath took charge in January 2022, succeeding K. Sivan, and served as Secretary of the Department of Space and Chairman of the Space Commission as well. He had earlier directed the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, and is a specialist in launch-vehicle structural design and propulsion.
| Chairman | Period | Associated with |
|---|---|---|
| Vikram Sarabhai | 1963–71 | Founder of the Indian space programme |
| Satish Dhawan | 1972–84 | SLV-3; the Sriharikota centre is named for him |
| U. R. Rao | 1984–94 | Led the team that built Aryabhata, India’s first satellite, 1975 |
| G. Madhavan Nair | 2003–09 | Chandrayaan-1, which found water on the Moon |
| K. Radhakrishnan | 2009–14 | Mangalyaan, the Mars Orbiter Mission |
| K. Sivan | 2018–22 | Chandrayaan-2 |
| S. Somanath | 2022– | Chandrayaan-3, Aditya-L1, the Gaganyaan programme |
What happened during his term. Chandrayaan-3 landed near the lunar south pole on 23 August 2023, making India the fourth country to soft-land on the Moon and the first to reach that region; the day is now observed as National Space Day. Aditya-L1, the solar observatory, was launched days later, and the first uncrewed test flights of the Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme followed.
A caution about “current” questions. Answers of this kind have a shelf life. The safe way to hold them is by the sequence of holders and the missions attached to each, as in the table above, rather than as an isolated name.
Hence, the answer is S. Somnath.
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