Mylswamy Annadurai is an Indian scientist working as vice president for Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology,[1][2] Chairman, Board of Governors, National Design and Research Forum.

The Mars Orbiter Mission was launched on 5 November 2013 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, on the country's east coast.

After travelling 670 million kilometres, Mangalyaan is now set to study the surface features, morphology, mineralogy and Martian atmosphere to better understand the climate, geology, origin, evolution and sustainability of life on the planet.

India launched the spacecraft by a modified version of the PSLV C11 on 22 October 2008 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh about 80 km north of Chennai at 06:22 IST (00:52 UTC).

During the period 2004–2008, as the project director for Chandrayaan I, he led a team of engineers and scientists that designed and developed the project to carry instrumentation from ISRO and from NASA, ESA, and Bulgaria to accomplish simultaneous chemical, mineralogical, resource and topographic mapping of the entire lunar surface at high spatial and spectral resolutions.

The centre is responsible for building satellites for communication, remote sensing, navigation, space science and interplanetary missions.

[16] In 2019 Mylswamy Annadurai was appointed as vice president for Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology.