J.D. Rao has over 33 years of experience at ISRO. He joined in 1980 after completing his master's degree and has served in various leadership roles over his career. Currently, he is the General Manager of ISSDC at ISTRAC, where he helped establish ISSDC for Chandrayaan-1 and has defined requirements for data handling from various science missions. The presentation discusses ISSDC's role in providing science data to users and how NKN has become integral to ISSDC's infrastructure and services.
J.D. Rao has over 33 years of experience at ISRO. He joined in 1980 after completing his master's degree and has served in various leadership roles over his career. Currently, he is the General Manager of ISSDC at ISTRAC, where he helped establish ISSDC for Chandrayaan-1 and has defined requirements for data handling from various science missions. The presentation discusses ISSDC's role in providing science data to users and how NKN has become integral to ISSDC's infrastructure and services.
J.D. Rao has over 33 years of experience at ISRO. He joined in 1980 after completing his master's degree and has served in various leadership roles over his career. Currently, he is the General Manager of ISSDC at ISTRAC, where he helped establish ISSDC for Chandrayaan-1 and has defined requirements for data handling from various science missions. The presentation discusses ISSDC's role in providing science data to users and how NKN has become integral to ISSDC's infrastructure and services.
Rao General Manager | ISSDC | ISTRAC / ISRO Expertise at ISRO : 33 Years
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J D Rao Joined ISRO in 1980 after completing Masters Degree in Title: ISTRAC Applications Applied Mathematics from Andhra University, Vishakhapattanam. He This presentation comprises of features and characteristics of ISSDC and its joined ISRO, SHAR, Shriharikota and served for about 6 years in the contribution in providing the science data to identified as well as global users field of flight dynamics. Later he has been assigned the role of in order to support the analysis and research by professors, students and spacecraft operations management at ISTRAC Bangalore. He has scientist. Such valuable data need to be disseminated to more and more sets mastered in the field of Spacecraft operations of LEO missions. He of interested users on regular basis. rose to the level of operations director for IRSP3 and resourcesat1, further he has been promoted to deputy project director for This presentation also addresses that how NKN has become an integral part resourcesat2 mission. Under his leadership, these missions have of the ISSDC and entire ISTRAC infrastructure & services and being utilized in successfully served the nation beyond the expected operational life. serving the requirements at various levels. NKN has become a very critical resource and how it has improved the service domain at all the ISTRAC units He has been instrumental in establishment and operationalization of like MOX, ISTRAC Lukcnow and ISSDC. state of art Indian Space Science Data Center (ISSDC) for Chandrayaan-1, Indias First Lunar mission in the capacity of General Manager ISSDC. He is also instrumental in designing the requirements for the data ingest, processing, dissemination and archive of Megha- Tropiques, Automatic Identification of Ships (Space Based) on Resourcesat-2 & YouthSat- IndoRussian Scientific satellite. At present he is busy in preparation for the prestigious upcoming maiden mission to MARS. He is also critically involved in defining the roles and responsibility of ISSDC for the upcoming ISROs Science missions such as ASTROSAT, CHANDRAYAAN-2, and Aditya-1 missions.