When India’s heaviest microwave satellite is launched into space Thursday, there will be another reason to cheer as it is a woman who is the director of the key project. After ‘Missile woman’ Tessy Thomas, who was closely involved with India’s Agni-V intercontinental ballistic missile that was launched on April 19, a woman from Tamil Nadu, N. Valarmathi, is the project director for the Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) project at the Indian space agency’s Satellite Centre in Bangalore. Read More
