Archive For September, 2012
India plans to launch a mission to Mars next year, putting an orbital probe around the red planet to study its climate and geology, top space department officials said. The mission would mark another step in India’s ambitious space programme, which envisages New Delhi’s first manned mission in 2016. We will embark on the Mars […]
The ancient Martian crater where the Curiosity rover landed looks strikingly similar to the Mojave Desert in California with its looming mountains and hanging haze, scientists said. “The first impression that you get is how Earth-like this seems looking at that landscape,” said chief scientist Mr John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology. Overnight, […]
The Indian Space Research Organisation is preparing for its 100th mission next month with the commercial launch of two foreign satellites from the spaceport of Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. ISRO plans to launch 720-kg SPOT-6 remote sensing satellite from France (built by ASTRIUM SAS) and a 15-kg Japanese spacecraft Portieres on board the home-grown Polar […]
At the ISRO Satellite Centre in Bangalore and other scientific centres across the country, efforts are currently underway to launch India’s first mission to study the sun in 2015 or 2016. The launch of Aditya 1, which was initially proposed at 2012 by then ISRO chairman DR G Madhavan Nair in 2008, will now set […]
The Union Cabinet cleared the Indian Space Research Organisation’s mission to Mars next year. The project, which comes on the heels of the Chandrayaan mission to the moon, envisages putting a spacecraft in the red planet’s orbit to study its atmosphere, with the help of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). India joins the United […]
The first of India’s ten ordered Boeing heavy-lift military transport aircraft has got its shape at an exclusive “major join” ceremony at Long Beach attended by the top Indian diplomat of the region and IAF officials. The global aerospace giant Boeing integrated the forward, centre and aft (rear) fuselages and the wing assembly of India’s […]
A French inventor has developed a wind turbine that creates fresh water out of thin air, a solution that could solve the crises in remotest and driest parts of the world. Inspired by the mechanics of a dripping air conditioner, Mr Marc Parent created a company, Eole Water that produces wind turbines that literally pull […]
Mr Neil Armstrong, a self-described “nerdy” engineer who became a global hero when as a steely nerved U.S. pilot he made “one giant leap for mankind” with the first step on the moon. The modest man who entranced and awed people on Earth has died. He was 82. Mr. Armstrong died on Saturday following complications […]
The central government is all set to approve an over Rs 6,500-crore programme to mount supersonic cruise missile BrahMos on Sukhoi-30 MKI fighters of the Indian Air Force (IAF). The air-launched missile system would significantly add to the conventional offensive capabilities of Indian military might, while intensifying arms race in the region. The project seeks […]
Indian flagship missile programme BrahMos will be moving from supersonic scale to hypersonic scale to reach speeds of Mach 7. India had entered into a joint venture with Russia to develop hyper scale capabilities, said managing director and CEO of BrahMos programme Mr Shivathanu Pillai, while speaking at the 26th CSIR-NAL foundation lecture on ‘Emerging […]