Archive For September, 2012

National Symposium on Acoustics ( NSA – 2012)

National Symposium on Acoustics ( NSA – 2012) Date: 05-12-2012 to 07-12-2012 Organised by: KSR Institute for Engineering and Technology & Acoustical Society of India Venue: KSR Institute for Engineering and Technology KSR Kalvi Nagar, Tiruchengode -637215 Namakkal (Dt.), Tamil Nadu For Further Details: DR. M. Venkatesan Principal, KSR Institute for Engineering and Technology KSR […]

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ISRO close to signing deals for launch of 3 foreign satellites

The Indian Space Research Organisation is close to signing contracts for the launch of three foreign satellites on board its home-built Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from Sriharikota spaceport. ISRO Chairman Dr K. Radhakrishnan said Antrix Corporation, the space agency’s marketing arm, is in advanced dialogue for three launch services contracts. “There are very serious […]

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India, U.S. Expected To Sign $1B Apache Deal

India and the United States soon will sign a $1 billion deal for the purchase of 22 attack helicopters, an Indian Defence Ministry official said. The Boeing AH-64D Apache helicopter beat the Russian Mi-28N Night Hunter, outscoring the Russian helicopter on more than 20 technical points, said an Indian Air Force official. The helicopters can […]

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Navy set for modernisation

The Indian Navy is entering its biggest modernisation phase with the Ministry of Defence approving acquisitions worth Rs 2.73 lakh crore for the next 15 years. Out of this, contracts worth Rs 92,069 crore have already been placed. In a bid to strengthen its foothold in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), ranging from the Malacca […]

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India expects to induct first 787 Dreamliner this month

Air India hopes to induct the first of its new Boeing-787 Dreamliners by this month-end as the aircraft has received regulatory clearances to fly to India. “The first of our 787s have received mandatory flying clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration. A team of pilots, engineers and other crew members will leave for the US […]

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Aerospace players welcome India’s new offset guidelines

India has revised its defence offset guidelines, making it easier for international defence contractors to dispense their offset obligations. The changes were announced by India’s ministry of defence in a revised offset document that runs to 38 pages. Foreign defence contractors who Flightglobal spoke to are still absorbing the changes, but generally feel the revisions […]

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Ministry plans unit to monitor domestic air fares

A new unit may be set up in the Ministry of Civil Aviation to monitor domestic air fares. The proposal is aimed at ensuring greater transparency in the pricing of domestic air tickets. “Airlines Web sites show the basic fare. But a passenger does not know how much the fare is being increased when price […]

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Prithvi-II missile test, a success

T.S. Subramanian   The Strategic Forces Command, which is in charge of nuclear weapons, successfully fired the surface-to-surface Prithvi-II missile from Chandipur in Odisha’s Balasore district, confirming yet again that the armed forces are capable of launching nuclear missiles independently. The missile, drawn from the inventory of the armed forces, lifted off from a road-mobile […]

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Indian mission to Mars in 2013

India will send an unmanned probe to the orbit of Mars to study its upper atmosphere as well as the “chemical and mineralogical” features of the Red Planet. “Recently, the Cabinet approved the Mars orbiter mission. Under this mission, our spaceship will go near Mars and collect important scientific information. This spaceship to Mars will […]

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Soon, India’s own eye in the sky

India’s efforts to build its own Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) system crossed a milestone on Aug 22, 2012 when a fully modified Brazilian Embraer-145 aircraft, on which the system will be installed, arrived on Wednesday night at the HAL airport in Bangalore. The aircraft, with the indigenous Active Electronic Scanning Array (AESA) radar, […]

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