Nambi narayanan Biography

Who is Nambi Narayanan?

Nambi Narayanan is an Indian scientist and aerospace engineer. As a senior officer of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), he was in charge of the Cryogenic Division. In 1994, he was falsely blamed and arrested. Charges against him were dismissed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in 1996, and the Supreme Court of India declared him innocent in 1998.

In 2018, the Supreme Court, through a bench of Dipak Misra, awarded ₹50 lakh compensation to Narayanan to be recovered from the Kerala government within eight weeks, and the Supreme Court under the chairmanship of retired Supreme Court Justice DK Jain. Committee constituted. Inquire into the role of Kerala Police officials in Narayanan's arrest.

Early life and Birth of Nambi Narayanan

Born on 12 December 1941, S. Nambi Narayanan hails from Tamil Nadu. He was born in Nagercoil in a Tamil family.

Nambi Narayanan was born in a Hindu family. He lost his father when he was pursuing his graduation in Madurai. Her mother was touching sick after her father left. He also had a sister and 5 brothers.

Nambi Narayanan is married to Meena Nambi. The couple has a son, Shankar Kumar Narayanan (businessman) and a daughter, Geeta Arunan (Montessori school teacher in Bangalore).

Career of Nambi Narayanan

Narayanan first met ISRO Chairman Vikram Sarabhai in 1966 at Thimba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station Thumba, Thiruvananthapuram, while he got a chance to work there as a payload integrator. The Chairman of the Space Science and Technology Center (SSTC) at that time, Sarabhai recruited only highly qualified professionals. While pursuing, Narayanan joined the Engineering College in Thiruvananthapuram for his MTech degree. Upon learning this, Sarabhai left him for higher studies if he made it to any of the Ivy League universities. Thereafter, Narayanan earned a NASA Fellowship and entered Princeton University in 1969. He completed his master's program in chemical rocket propulsion under Professor Luigi Crocco in a record ten months. Despite being offered a job in the US, Narayanan returned to India specializing in liquid propulsion, when Indian rocketry still relied on solid propellants.

Narayanan introduced liquid fuel rocket technology to India in the 1970s, when APJ Abdul Kalam's team was working on solid motors. He foresaw the need for liquid fueled engines for ISRO's future civilian space programmes, and received encouragement from then ISRO chairman Satish Dhawan and his successor U R Rao. Narayanan developed liquid propellant motors, first producing 600 kg (1,300 lb) thrust engines in the mid-1970s and then moving on to larger engines.

In 1992, India signed an agreement with Russia for transfer of technology to develop cryogenic fuel-based engines and purchase of two such engines for ₹ 235 crore. However, US President George H.W. Bush wrote to Russia, raising objections against the transfer of technology and threatening to blacklist the country from a select five club that was not completed. Russia, under Boris Yeltsin, fell under pressure and denied technology to India. To overcome this monopoly, India signed a new agreement with Russia to build four cryogenic engines with two mockups for a total of US$9 million, after a global tender was floated without formal transfer of technology. ISRO had already reached a consensus with Kerala Hitech Industries Ltd, which would have offered the cheapest tender to build the engine. But it failed to turn out to be an espionage scandal in late 1994.

After working for nearly two decades with French assistance, Narayanan's team developed the growth engine used by several ISRO rockets, including the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), which took Chandrayaan-1 to the Moon in 2008. The Vikas engine is used in the second stage of PSLV and as the second and four strap-on stages of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).

Espionage of Nambi Narayanan

In 1994, Narayanan was falsely accused of passing important defense secrets to two alleged Maldivian intelligence officers, Mariam Rashid and Fauzia Hassan. Defense officials said the secrets relate to highly confidential "flight test data" from rocket and satellite launch experiments. Narayanan was one of two scientists (the other being D. Sasikumaran) accused of selling secrets worth millions. However, his house seemed nothing out of the ordinary and showed no signs of the corrupt benefits he was accused of.