Muthayya Vanitha

Muthayya Vanitha is an Indian electronics system engineer who has led projects on satellites at the Indian Space Research Organization. She was the project director of the Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission of the ISRO.

Early life and education Vanitha is from Chennai, India and originally trained as a design engineer. She completed her schooling in Boiler plant school Trichy. She graduated from College of Engineering, Guindy.

Career Vanitha has worked at ISRO for over three decades. Vanitha was also involved in the successful Mangalyaan mission to Mars in 2013. Previous Chandrayaan-1 project director, Mylswamy Annadurai, who convinced her to take on the role, said that her data handling, team management and problem solving skills made her the ideal person for this position. Vanitha's responsibilities include ensuring complete oversight of the development and implementation of all systems and acting as a point of authority for the project. The launch successfully occurred on 22 July 2019.