Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh) : Aditya L1's flight towards the Sun on Saturday is the culmination of the hard work of a number of scientists and people under its Project Director Nigar Shaji. With 35 years of service in ISRO, Shaji has made illustrious contributions to the Indian Remote Sensing, communication and inter-planetary satellite programmes in various responsibilities, sources in the space agency said.
Nigar Shaji hails from Tamil Nadu's Tenkasi and joins a list of illustrious names from the state -- Mayilsamy Annadurai, M Vanitha and P Veeramuthuvel, who have helmed the country's three lunar missions so far. Shaji joined ISRO Satellite Centre in 1987. She was also the Associate Project Director of Resourcesat-2A, which is the Indian Remote Sensing Satellite for National Resource Monitoring and management. She has authored several papers on image compression, system engineering among others.