Subbiah Arunan

Subbiah Arunan is an Indian scientist and Padma Shri awardee, known for his role in the Mars Orbiter Mission of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). He finished his schooling in St. Mary's Higher Secondary School, Vikramasingapuram in Tirunelveli Dist. He was born in Kothaiseri, Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu and completed his Mechanical engineering from Coimbatore Institute of Technology.

In 1984, he started his career in Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre. He is the project director of Mars Orbiter Mission in 2013. He is married to Geetha Arunan, the daughter of fellow ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan.

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1. Subbiah
2. Nambi Narayanan
3. H. C. Verma
4. Mission Mangal
5. Habib Rahman (architect)
6. B. V. Doshi
7. Virander Singh Chauhan
8. Ajay K. Sood
9. Vashishtha Narayan Singh
10. Rocketry: The Nambi Effect
11. Padma Shri
12. Rajagopala Chidambaram
13. Mars Orbiter Mission
14. Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
15. Mylswamy Annadurai
16. Raja Ramanna
17. Subhash Kak
18. M. S. Swaminathan
19. Janaki Ammal
20. Zafar Futehally