Harsh has been required as a scientist in 29 suborbital, orbital, and planetary space missions, including 14 as the essential specialist.
He has created eight logical instruments for planetary and close space research missions, and has essentially encouraged what we realize about our nearby planet group’s Kuiper Belt and Oort cloud, comets, satellites of the external planets, Pluto and proof of planetary groups around different stars.
During his time at NASA, Harsh drove its whole earth and space science program, comprising of 93 flight missions and north of 3,000 awards with a financial plan of $5.4 billion. He likewise filled in as the foremost specialist of its New Skylines Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission, which was sent off under his residency in 2006, made the primary investigation of Pluto in 2015, and afterward proceeded to do the first flyby of any Kuiper Belt object in mid 2019.
As well as chipping away at incalculable different ventures, Harsh has distributed north of 350 specialized papers and 50 articles, given more than 400 hundred specialized talks and north of 200 famous talks and addresses, composed three books, filled in as proofreader on three specialized volumes, and as of late distributed The Pluto Framework After New Skylines as lead manager.