Meet Swati Mohan, the Indian-American scientist who helped NASA land rover on Mars
Meet Swati Mohan, the Indian-American scientist who helped NASA land rover on Mars
PTI | Feb 19, 2021, 14:15 IST
Indian-American scientist, Swati Mohan, who led the guidance, navigation, and control operations of the Mars 2.Read More
WASHINGTON: As the world witnessed the historic landing of NASA s Perseverance rover on the Martian surface, it was Indian-American scientist, Swati Mohan, who led the guidance, navigation, and control operations of the Mars 2020 mission.
Mohan also confirmed that the rover had survived a particularly tricky plunge through the Martian atmosphere. Touchdown confirmed, exclaimed Mohan, who emigrated from India to the US when she was only a year old.
Touchdown confirmed: Indian-American scientist Swati Mohan played key role in NASA Mars rover landing PTI
Updated : Feb 19, 2021, 7:23 pm IST
As the team s operations lead, I am the primary point of communication between the GN&C subsystem and the rest of the project, said Mohan
Indian-American scientist Swati Mohan (Twitter@ParveenKaswan)
Washington: Indian-American scientist, Swati Mohan, who leads the guidance, navigation, and control operations of NASA s Mars 2020 mission played a pivotal role in landing the US space agency s historic Perseverance rover on the Martian surface on Friday.
Mohan was also the first to confirm that the rover had sucessfully touched down on the Martian surface after surviving a particularly tricky plunge through the atmosphere of the Red Planet.
Meet Swati Mohan, the Indian-American scientist who helped NASA land Perseverance rover on Mars
Indian-American scientist, Swati Mohan, led the guidance, navigation, and control operations of the Mars 2020 mission.
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historic landing of NASA s Perseverance rover on the Martian surface, it was
Indian-American scientist, Swati Mohan, who led the guidance, navigation, and control operations of the Mars 2020 mission.
Mohan also confirmed that the rover had survived a particularly tricky plunge through the Martian atmosphere. Touchdown confirmed, exclaimed Mohan, who had emigrated from India to the US when she was only a year old.
She says the Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Operations (GN&C) are eyes and ears of the spacecraft.
Mohan, who emigrated from India to the US when she was only a year old, said the Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Operations (GN&C) are the “eyes and ears” of the spacecraft.
Commenting on her team’s role in the current mission, Mohan said their job during the cruise phase heading towards Mars was to figure out how the spacecraft is oriented, and make sure it is pointed correctly in space “solar arrays to sun, antenna to Earth, and maneuver the spacecraft to get it where we want to go”, she is quoted as saying in her bio page on the NASA website.