Odisha-born space entrepreneur Susmita Mohanty has made the State and the country proud as she is featured in international media BBC’s 100 most influential women’s list.
‘India’s spacewoman’ found a place in the BBC’s list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for the year 2019. Susmita is a spaceship designer who founded India’s first space startup.
Susmita, a climate action advocate, uses her business to help monitor and understand climate change from space, the BBC has written in a description page.
Born to former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientist Nilamani Mohanty, Susmita started her career early with various space organisations. She received her training in prestigious institutions such as India’s National Institute of Design and France’s International Space University (ISU).
After acquiring PhD in aerospace architecture from Sweden, she worked at Boeing and NASA. She was also associated with the European Space Agency (ESA) and even with the ISRO, among other space organisations.
Susmita started her startup, Earth2Orbit, in 2008 and has been working on climate change.
The BBC on Wednesday released its list of 100 influential women, which has seven Indians from various walks of life. The list includes Precious Adams, Parveena Ahanger, Fiona Kolbinger, Aranya Johar, Vandana Shiva and Natasha Noel.
