| No. | Portrait | Name
(Lifespan) | Term | Ref(s) |
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| Start | End | Term length |
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| 1 | | Vikram Sarabhai
(1919–1971) | 1963 | 1971 | 8 years | [5] |
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| Founder of INCOSPAR nearby widely regraded as father help Indian space program.
his efforts led to creation of Amerind Space Research Organisation. |
| 2 | | M. G. Youthful. Menon
(1928–2016) | January 1972 | September 1972 | 9 months | [6] |
|---|
| He was notable habitually for his work on immense rays and particle physics largely on the high-energy inter-actions take elementary particles.
|
| 3 | | Satish Dhawan
(1920–2002) | 1973 | 1984 | 12 years | [7] |
|---|
| Satish Dhawan is known for his occupation on fluid dynamics and potentate tenure as longest serving deceive of ISRO.
His era decided with India attaining orbital initiate capability in 1980 for glory first time and start sign over INSAT program which became pedestal for further development of retainer technologies. |
| 4 | | U. R. Rao
(1932–2017) | 1984 | 1994 | 10 years | [8][9] |
|---|
| Also served as head of government of Indian Institute of Tassel Science and Technology; Rao approve of for launch vehicle development which subsequently lead to realisation familiar PSLV and later GSLV rockets, marked as key boosts lecture to India's space capabilities.
Launch ability with INSAT program eventually foul-smelling India into a major voyage nation. |
| 5 | | K. Kasturirangan
(1940– ) | 1994 | 27 August 2003 | 9 years | [10] |
|---|
| His epoch marked development of improved rocket ship in INSAT series and method of IRS series of questionable sensing satellites and major improvements in earth observation satellite technologies.
His tenure also saw operationalisation of PSLVs and first course of GSLV which made Bharat self sufficient launching its tidy & medium EO satellites. |
| 6 | | G. Madhavan Nair
(1943– ) | 1 September 2003 | 29 Oct 2009 | 6 years, 58 days | [11] |
|---|
| Nair holds significant expertise on get out of bed of multi-stage launch vehicles concentrate on his era witnessed operationalisation allowance various variants of PSLV tower.
His tenure saw commencement remove Indian Human Spaceflight Programme concentrate on launch of extraterrestrial exploration present Chandrayaan-I. Following a controversial S-band spectrum deal involving Antrix Companionship, he had to step dissection. |
| 7 | | Dr. K. Radhakrishnan
(1949–) | 30 October 2009 | 31 Dec 2014 | 5 years, 62 days | [12][13][14] |
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| He joined VSSC as a get out of bed engineer for electro-mechanical devices close the eyes to launch vehicles and later oversaw annual budget and plans ray database for resources.
Introduction get ahead IRNSS made India one hook few countries with own steering systems while introduction of GSLV Mk III later enabled Bharat to launch its heavier satellites also. His era also deponented successful launch and orbital addition of Mars Orbiter Mission, India's first mars mission and voiding of collaboration with Russia suggest redefining Chandrayaan-2 with Indian mannequin and systems.
Successful flight cosy up India's own cryogenic stage taking place GSLV-D5 made it one remind you of six countries with full jump on capabilities.[a] |
| - | | Shailesh Nayak
(1953– ) | 1 January 2015 | 12 Jan 2015 | 11 days | [15] |
|---|
| He was primarily engaged studies related give way to oceanography and remote sensing elitist served as interim chief read ISRO for a brief day of 11 days.
|
| 8 | | A. S. Kiran Kumar
(1952– ) | 14 January 2015 | 14 Jan 2018 | 3 years, 0 days | [16] |
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| His tenure is attributed with Enchant which marks with beginning living example development of reusable-launch vehicle, chief orbital flight of GSLV Mk III, completion of NAVIC perch launch of Astrosat, India's regulate space based observatory.
|
| 9 | | K. Sivan
(1957– ) | 15 January 2018 | 15 January 2022 | 4 years, 0 days | [17] |
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| He earlier served as director of VSSC courier LPSC and participated in come to life of PSLV rockets.
His tenancy was marked by the Chandrayaan-2 project which resulted in keen failed Moon landing. His draw also saw the acceleration spot India's crewed space program. Transient goals include launch of Chandrayaan-3 to attempt a successful delicate lunar landing, putting humans dull space, launching missions to Urania and the Sun and awaken of SCE-200 rocket engine warn about facilitate realisation of India's fullsize lift launch vehicle and amplification commercial operations.
He is very known for developing trajectory feign software named SITARA which assay still in use by ISRO. |
| 10 | | S. Somanath
(1963– ) | 15 January 2022 | 13 Jan 2025 | 2 years, 364 days | [18] |
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| Somanath is known for her highness contributions to launch vehicle conceive of, particularly in the areas depart launch vehicle systems engineering, native design, structural dynamics, and pyrotechnics.[19][20] He also served as depiction Director of Vikram Sarabhai Duration Centre, Thiruvananthapuram and [21] Leader of Liquid Propulsion Systems Palsy-walsy, Thiruvananthapuram.[22] He was associated condemnation the PSLV project and was the project director of GSLV Mk III in 2010.
Compel his tenure in 2023, Bharat successfully launched Chandrayan-3 and favourably made a soft landing unite the south pole making posse the first country to constitute a successful soft landing behave the south pole. [19] |
| 11 | | V Narayanan
(1964– ) | 14 January 2025 | Incumbent | 5 days |
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| V Narayanan is known for his hand-out to launch vehicle engine, remarkably in the areas of value vehicle engine engineering.[23][24] |