Radha Krishnaiah Chetty Pandipati (also known as R. K. Chetty Pandipati and P. R. K. Chetty) is an Electronics and Communications Engineer and author.
Pandipati works at NASA as a contractor.Robert Kichak, Eric Young, Chetty Pandipati, Robert Cooke, "International Space Station (ISS) External Television (TV) Camera Shutdown Investigation", NASA/TM-2009-215572; NESC-RP-06-49/06-001-E, February 2009. See pages 12 & 111. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20090014721.pdfSteven J. Gentz, Radha "Chetty" Pandipati, Jerri Ling, Thomas Miller, Judith Jeevarajan, Gerald Halpert, Albert Zimmerman, "Technical Consultation of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Nickel Hydrogen (NiH2) Battery Charge Capacity Prediction" NASNTM-2005-213916/Version 1.0; NESC-RP-04-08/04-050-E, September 2005. See pages 1, 3, 6 & 8. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20050228898.pdf R.K. Chetty Pandipati and Marlon Enciso, "Positively Verifying Mating of Previously Unverifiable Flight Connectors", NASA Tech briefs, September 2011. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20120000430.pdf
Biography Pandipati was born in India.R. K. Chetty Pandipati biography, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace Electronics and Systems, Vol.AES-15, No.1, Jan 1979, USA. http://ieeeexplore.ws/document/4102110/ After receiving his undergraduate education at Andhra University, Kakinad, India, where he earned his B.E. degree, he joined Indian Space Research Organization, in 1972. While working there, he pursued his graduate studies and earned Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute Science, Bangalore, India, in 1978. He then joined the staff of Caltech, Pasadena, USA as a research fellow in 1979.
Later on, he worked at Sundstrand Corporation,R. K. Chetty Pandipati biography, IEEE Aerospace Electronic Systems Magazine, Vol:7, No:4, April 1992, page-29, USA. http://ieeeexplore.ws/document/143195/ Rockford, Illinois and Fairchild Space Company, before starting at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a contractor and he has been working there since 1994.
He is the author of Switch Mode Power Supply Design,Switch Mode Power Supply Design http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/search?title=Switch%20mode%20power%20supply%20design&rn=1 and Satellite Technology & its Applications,Satellite Technology & its Applications http://copac.jisc.ac.uk/search?title=Satellite%20technology%20and%20its%20applications&rn=3 published by McGraw-Hill Inc.
He was elected to the grade of IEEE Fellow in 1994.IEEE Active Fellows IEEEIEEE Fellows Directory IEEE
Medals & Awards
Medals NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal 2002"Agency Awards Historical Recipients List", Page 161 https://searchpub.nssc.nasa.gov/servlet/sm.web.Fetch/Agency_Awards_Historical_Recipient_List.pdf?rhid=1000&did=2120817&type=released NASA Silver Achievement Medal 2014
Awards ATA Excellence & Recognition Award in Science & Technology, 2016 NASA GSFC Thomas J. Budney Award for Engineering Integrity 2009 NASA GSFC Exceptional Achievement Award, 1997 Indian Space Research Organization Distinguished Achievement Award 1975
Patents Donald G. Fair and Pandipati R.K. Chetty, "Soft-Start Control for a Push-pull Converter-Regulator with a Flux Balancing Circuit", U.S. Patent Number 4598351, dated July 1, 1986. https://patents.google.com/patent/US4598351
Publications Robert Kichak, Eric Young, Chetty Pandipati, Robert Cooke, "International Space Station (ISS) External Television (TV) Camera Shutdown Investigation", NASA/TM-2009-215572; NESC-RP-06-49/06-001-E, February 2009. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20090014721.pdf R.K. Chetty Pandipati and Marlon Enciso, "Positively Verifying Mating of Previously Unverifiable Flight Connectors", NASA Tech briefs, September 2011. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20120000430
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