Prem Shanker Goel is an Indian space scientist, former secretary at the Department of Ocean Development,

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and a former director of

Indian Space Research Organization The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO; ) is the national space agency of India, headquartered in Bengaluru. It operates under the Department of Space (DOS) which is directly overseen by the Prime Minister of India, while the Chairman ...

. He was honored by the

, in 2001, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of

Padma Shri Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, ...

Biography

Born on 20 April 1947 in

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern si ...

, Prem Shanker Goel graduated in Engineering (BE) from the

University of Jodhpur Jai Narain Vyas University (JNVU, formerly known as University of Jodhpur) is an educational institution in Jodhpur city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Established in 1962, the university took over the four colleges of Jodhpur run by the sta ...

(MBM Engineering College), secured a post graduate degree (ME) in Applied Electronics and

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from the

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, Bangalore (IISc) and continued at Bengaluru to complete his PhD from the

Bangalore University Bangalore University (BU) is a public state university located in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The university is a part of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) and affiliated by Univers ...

. He started his career by joining the

at their centre in

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in the project for Satellite

Attitude Control System Spacecraft attitude control is the process of controlling the orientation of a spacecraft (vehicle/satellite) with respect to an inertial frame of reference or another entity such as the celestial sphere, certain fields, and nearby objects, et ...

for spinning RS-1 satellite but later shifted to the Bengaluru centre to join the

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team. Over the years, Goel has served as the chairman of the Spacecraft System Advisory Board for

IRS-1 Insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS-1) is a signaling adapter protein that in humans is encoded by the ''IRS-1'' gene. It is a 131 kDa protein with amino acid sequence of 1242 residues. It contains a single pleckstrin homology (PH) domain at the N-te ...

, the project engineer of the Attitude and Orbitalal Control Subsystem of the

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, associate project director of INSAT-2, head of the control system, group director of Attitude and Orbitalal Control Subsystem, deputy director of Mission and Control Area, associate director and later, the director of ISRO satellite system. On his retirement from ISRO in 2005, he was appointed as the Secretary of the Department of Ocean Development, a post he held till 2008. During his tenure there, the department was developed into a full-fledged ministry,

, by combining the departments of ocean, atmosphere, geoscience and atmosphere. The next move was as the Chairman of Recruitment and Assessment Centre of the

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. He is the incumbent Honorary Distinguished Professor at ISRO and holds the Professor M. G. K. Menon DRDO Chair. Goel is credited with the development of the spin axis orientation system for Bhaskara I and Bhaskara II satellites and the magnetic control for spinning satellites. His contributions are also reported in the

project in the development of momentum based III-axis control system, in the IRS-V project in the development of zero momentum biased III-axis control system and in the INSAT-II project in the development of ''configuration momentum biased attitude control system''. He has also been involved in the development of TES, SRE missions and other communication and scientific missions. The first chairman of the Earth Commission, a global forum of scientists. and a member of several professional organizations such as the

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, Paris and the

Indian National Academy of Engineering The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), founded in 1987, comprises India's engineers, engineer-scientists and technologists covering the entire spectrum of engineering disciplines. The Academy is registered under the Societies Reg ...

, Goel has over 100 scientific papers to his credit, published in peer reviewed national and international journals. He has also attended many conferences and seminars to deliver keynote addresses.

Awards and recognitions

Prem Shanker Goel is an elected Fellow of the

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, the

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and the

Indian Academy of Sciences The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore was founded by Indian Physicist and Nobel Laureate C. V. Raman, and was registered as a society on 24 April 1934. Inaugurated on 31 July 1934, it began with 65 founding fellows. The first general meet ...

He is also an honorary Fellow of the Electrochemical Society of India, and the

Indian Institute of Technology The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are central government owned public technical institutes located across India. They are under the ownership of the Ministry of Education of the Government of India. They are governed by the Institu ...

, Mumbai. Goel received the Special Achievement Award in 1975 for the

Aryabhata Aryabhata (ISO: ) or Aryabhata I (476–550 CE) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer of the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. He flourished in the Gupta Era and produced works such as the ''Aryabhatiya'' (which ...

project and Hari Om Ashram Prerit Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award in 1983. In 1992, he was awarded the ASI Lifetime Achievement Award by the

. The same year, he received the VASVIK Industrial Research Award followed by Om Prakash Bhasin Award in 1995. The

awarded him the civilian honour of

in 2001. He is also a recipient of ISRO Distinguished Scientist Award.

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Biography

Awards and recognitions

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