The engineer who spotted Vikram debris

Chennai: His Facebook introduction states, “Nobody knows me”. It may be a philosophical statement. But today the world knows the 33-year old mechanical engineer Shanmuga Subramanian originally from Madurai and now a Technical Architect at Lennox India Technology Centre here.

For he was the person who first spotted the debris of India’s moon lander Vikram on the lunar surface after it crash-landed on September 7, 2019. The US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has credited him for discovering the debris of Vikram.

Feeling happy, Subramanian said, “Since my school days, I was interested in space and rocket launches. I never missed out watching an Indian rocket launch on Doordarshan. I have seen most of the launches of PSLV and GSLV.” Subramanian said he got very much interested in the Chandrayaan-2 mission as the media wrote about it extensively.

When India’s moon lander Vikram crashed into the lunar surface and was not traceable, Subramanian got interested to check out whether he could find it.

And he succeeded in that mission. On Tuesday, his Facebook friends erupted in joy and congratulated him after he posted a message that NASA has credited him for finding Vikram lander. (IANS)

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