SWATI MOHAN

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• Among the scientists who are part of this historic mission, Indian-American Dr Swati Mohan spearheaded the development of attitude control and the landing system for the rover.
  
  
• Besides that she was the lead systems engineer throughout the development.
  
  
• She is the key communicator between the GN&C subsystem and the rest of the project's teams.
  
  
• Dr Mohan had emigrated from India to the United States at the age of One. She has worked on Mars-2020 since almost the beginning of the project in 2013 and is currently working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.