Mangala Mani of ISRO

Biography:

Mangala Mani is the Eldest of 6 Siblings to her Parents Sri Bugge Sundar Rao (Late), B.A  and Smt. Santa Ratnamma, B.A, both of whom have retired from AG’s Office, Hyderabad,  as Audit Officer and Accounts Officer respectively. After her Schooling from Holy Mary Girls High School, Saifabad, Hyderabad, she has completed her Diploma in Electronics and Joined ISTRAC, SHAR, as a Technical Assistant on 12^th March, 1982.  She completed her  B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from JNTU, Hyderabad in 1988 and then M.E in Internet Science Engineering from IISc, Bangalore. She is pursuing my Doctoral studies in the Geo-Engineering Department of Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. She is a Fellow of Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers (IETE) and Life Member of International Micro-Electronics and Packaging Society (iMAPS)-India Chapter and Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS). She worked in ISTRAC, SHAR, Nellore from Mar1982 to Oct 19 85 and thereafter in ISTRAC, Bangalore, upto June 1988, when ISTRAC was established as a separate center, in Bangalore. She was supporting the Telecommanding activities while in ISTRAC (SHAR and Bangalore) and was part of the team, when the facility at Bangalore was established from scratch. When she joined SHAR, she was very much inspired by the then Project Director of SLV-3, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

 She has supported our first Communications Satellite, APPLE and our LEO Satellites Bhaskara-1 & 2 and Rohini satellites. While in ISTRAC, Bangalore, she has supported our 1^st Indigenous Polar Orbiting Satellite IRS-1A, after which I requested and was transferred to NRSC, Hyderabad. While in NRSC, She has been involved in Hardware designing of Cards which were installed in ESA Ground station in Spain and Acquisition systems in NASA, Florida, which is a collaborative effort of ISRO and DLR, Germany. I was part of 3-member team to Spain for installation and imparting training to (European Space Agency) ESA personal. She was involved in Payload Data Processing of Landsat (NASA), SPOT (French) and our Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellites IRS-1A, 1B and P3 and presently handling Satellite Data Quality Evaluation of all our Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) Satellites.

NRSC has established a ground station for earth observations satellites in Antarctica to supplement the data collection for ISRO. She has been part of a 3-member ISRO team to operate and maintain the station 24x7 at Bharati Research Station, Antarctica for more than a year, successfully supporting 12 Missions for ISTRAC and NRSC.

With more than 39 ½ years of service in ISRO/Dept Space, She has grown along with her Organisation steadily and strongly, both benefiting and contributing. She has retired in Oct 2021 on Superannuation.

Her extracurricular activities: - Presidents Guide, Sports, Reading, Volunteering etc

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