# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/s-somanath
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:52:36.346Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/s-somanath"
name: "S. Somanath"
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description: "Sreedhara Panicker Somanath is an Indian aerospace engineer served as the chairman of ISRO. Under his chairpersonship, ISRO carried out the third Indian lunar exploration mission named Chandrayaan-3. The lander named Vikram and the rover named Pragyan landed near the lunar south pole region on 23 August 2023 at 18:04 IST, making India the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the lunar south pole and the fourth country to demonstrate soft landing on the Moon."
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gender: "male"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump