Dr. Nambi Narayanan: My Days With Dr. Vikram Sarabhai and Prof. Satish Dhawan in ISRO

How ISRO was shaped by Dr. Vikram Sarabhai and Prof satish Dhawan?
How they developed & nurtured talent pool at ISRO?
What made Chandrayaan mission successful?
How Dr. Sarabhai handled scientist poaching attempt by NASA director?
Want to listen fascinating stories from the day of inception of ISRO....watch this lecture

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction of speaker Dr. Nambi Narayanan
6:53 Dr. Nambi Narayanan interaction with IIT
7:25 How the Rocketry came into existance
13:21 Dr. Nambi Narayanan days and memories with Dr. Vikram Sarabhai (1963 - 1971)
22:09 ISRO Growth, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Difficulties in developing rocket
25:18 Dr. Nambi Narayanan fascination for liquid propulsion system
35:10 Development of Vikas Engine, Solid, Liquid & Cryogenic Propulsion Systems
44:34 Dr. Nambi Narayanan advise
46:06 Planning with respect to the outer space
49:36 Dr. Nambi Narayanan advise
52:38 Q&A: Do you think India missed on semi-cryogenic engines?
55:35 Q&A: What is the scope and future of private organizations & startups in Indian Space Research?
59:12 Q&A: Do you think the present workforce is being utilised efficiently, or do they need to do something more in terms of output?
1:05:26 Q&A: Can you throw some light on developing reusable launch systems?
1:08:32 Q&A: Will it be better to use same fuel for every stage and cut the total cost?
1:13:21 Q&A: Is the future of ISRO more towards space research or exploiting the space industry? And in either case what qualities are you looking for in the new recruits?
1:15:35 Q&A: Is ISRO working on bringing back or dumping satellites whose lifetime is over?
1:18:00 Vote of Thanks
1:21:23 Static Testing of Vikas Engine
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Speaker: Dr. Nambi Narayanan
About the speaker:
Born on 12th Dec 1941 at Thiruvananthapuram in a middle class family. Graduated in Mechanical engineering from Madras University during 1965. Got his Post Graduate Degree,in the field of Chemical Rocket Propulsion, from Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences Dept of Princeton University, USA. Was a NASA Fellowship holder and worked on Combustion Instability in Liquid Rocket Propulsion Systems.

Joined ISRO during 1966. Assignments in ISRO includes Pyro Systems and Solid Rocket Propulsion Systems. Fathered the Liquid Propulsion Systems in ISRO. These include a 600 KG thrust Liquid Rocket known as LP006 to 60 tonne thrust ViKas Engine used in the second satge of PSLV/GSLV. The Vikas engine is used as a strap on for both GSLV and PSLV and successfully used in Mangalyaan and Chandrayaan Missions.

He had worked very closely with legends in the field of Space/Rocketry such Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam,Dr. Vikram A. Sarabhai ,Prof. Satish Dhawan , Dr. Brahm Prakash and Prof U. R. Rao.

He was the Project Directer for the second & fourth stages of PSLV. Associate Project Directer for both PSLV GSLV. He was also the Project Director of Cryogenic Liquid Propulsion Systems. He had contributed for a period of more than 35 years in the growth of ISRO from its inception and authored/supervised a large number of Technical Reports in the field of Rocketry.

He retired as Director, Advance Technology and Planning during Dec 2001

His autobiography titled Ormakalude Bhramanapatham (ഓർമകളുടെ ഭ്രമണപഥം) was released on 23 October 2017. His biography, in English, titled "Ready to Fire: How India & I Survived The ISRO Spy Case" is expected to release this year. Bollywood is producing a movie on his life.

This lecture was delivered on 28th Feb 2018 at IC&SR Hall, IIT Madras.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this talk are those of the speaker.
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