Archive For The “Achivements” Category
The most detailed map of the universe created through the observations made by Planck space telescope has an Indian element to it. Three Indian scientists ‐‐ Mr Sanjit Mitra, Mr Tarun Mr Souradeep and their graduate student Mr Aditya Rotti ‐‐ from the Inter‐University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, were a part of the […]
It was on March 17, 1988, India sent the IRS1A to space, the first remote sensing satellite (IRS) of the country. To remember that momentous day, the Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS) organised a commemoration ceremony at IISc and felicitated the members of the first IRS programme that made the IRS1A possible.Former heads of […]
Airports of Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad are among the top five airports in the world providing international standard services. Airports Council International (ACI), a global body of airports, has adjudged Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport as second best after Seoul’s Incheon airport in the category of airports handling 25-40 million passengers per annum (MPPA) […]
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has elevated two of its tops scientists as Chief Controllers (Research and Development) in Aero and Life Sciences stream. According to a press release issued here, Dr K Tamilmani, scientist, and chief executive, Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification (CEMILAC), one of the establishments of Defence Research and […]
Three top-level appointments have taken place in the Indian Space Research Organisation for the posts of Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) and the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. Mr S. Ramakrishnan, an accomplished engineer in rocketry and architect of the […]
Bangalore, December 05, 2012: Mr. S.Subrahmanyan has taken over as Managing Director of HAL’s MiG Complex at Nasik. Prior to this, he was Chief of Projects at HAL’s Helicopter Division (Bangalore). A graduate in mechanical engineering from college of engineering, Guindy, Chennai, Mr. Subrahmanyan is also a post-graduate in aircraft production from IIT, Chennai. One […]
Chennai, Sep 18 (PTI) Students of Chennai-based private SRM University have bagged third position at an international design competition in the field of aviation and space tourism held in the US. A team of eight undergraduate students from the Department of Aerospace Engineering won a cash prize of USD 1,000 in the Undergraduate Team Space […]
Indian-American record-setting astronaut Sunita Williams along with her two colleagues took off for her second space odyssey on a Russian Soyuz rocket, which blasted off successfully from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. 46-year-old NASA astronaut Williams, Russian Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency flight engineer Mr Akihiko Hoshide started their two-day voyage at […]
Mrs Rabia Futehally, one of India’s first woman pilots, used to fly in a sari. Last month, she was honoured as a 2012 inductee into the International Forest of Friendship (IFF), in Atchison, Kansas during ceremonies in June. The Forest is a living, growing memorial to the world history of aviation and aerospace. Futehally was […]
Mr S K Shivakumar, Distinguished Scientist and Associate Director, ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC), Bangalore, assumed the office of Director, ISAC. He took over the charge from Dr T K Alex, the outgoing Director. ISAC is ISRO’s premier centre for conceptualisation, design, fabrication, testing, integration and in-orbit commissioning of satellite systems involving various cutting edge technologies, […]