Archive For May, 2013

RV College of Engineering students bag NASA award

BANGALORE: “Team Vyoma” of RV College of Engineering has taken flight with a breakthrough invention. It bagged the Nasa Systems Engineering Award this year, from among 75 teams, for designing and building a highly unconventional unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).  It participated in SAE AeroDesign West Competition held in California, US from April 12 to 14, […]

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Prez gives away Padma awards

President Mr Pranab Mukherjee felicitated several eminent personalities, including Karnataka’s internationally renowned expert on fluid dynamics Prof Roddam Narasimha, industrialist Mr Adi Godrej, Olympic medal winners Mr Yogeshwar Dutt and Mr Vijay Kumar, and actor Mr Nana Patekar. Prof Narasimha and famous painter Mr Sayed Haider Raza were conferred the prestigious Padma Vibhushan at an […]

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Three Scientists Make India Proud in Mapping Universe

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 […]

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Air Force audit says pact for LCA parts unauthorised

The Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), one of the agencies working on light combat aircraft — Tejas had struck an agreement with BAE Systems Overseas Inc for supply of 15 ship sets of integrated flight control systems line replacement units costing US$3,06,00,000, without the approval of competent authority, states the audit of the Office of the […]

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Indian scientist discovers super-giant star

An Indian scientist and his Taiwanese colleague have discovered a blue super-giant star located in the constellation Virgo, far beyond our Milky Way Galaxy. Over 55 million years ago, the star emerged in an extremely wild environment, surrounded by intensely hot plasma (a million degrees centigrade) and amidst raging cyclone winds blowing at four million […]

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Combining the technology behind UAVs and war games

When the technology behind two popular technical hobbies — building unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and playing first-person shooter games such as Doom, Wolfenstein and Counter Strike — are brought together, the result is not a fun-filled endorsement. Instead, this combination has the potential to turn into a new intimidating war force. Drone warfare, increasingly carried […]

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India’s first manned space flight trial in 2015

The first flight of ISRO’s new and powerful rocket that will be able to carry an Indian to space, is expected to take place by the middle of 2015. Known as the Geostationary satellite launch vehicle (GSLV) Mark‐III, this is the heavy‐duty rocket, which Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will use to send an Indian […]

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ISRO planning first privately built PSLV launch in 5 years

Moving forward on its plans to rope in the industry in its activities, ISRO is looking towards the launch of the first privately built rocket in the next five years. The Indian Space Research Organisation has embarked on hiving off production of communication satellites and polar satellite launch vehicles (PSLVs) to the industry. “We are […]

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Successful ignition of indigenous cryogenic engine

Successful ignition of an indigenous cryogenic engine at Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu’s Kanyakumari district, in conditions simulating the high altitude atmosphere, has boosted the confidence of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to go ahead with the launch of a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV‐D5) in July. The hot‐test took place in the newly‐built high […]

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ISRO begins integrating payloads for ‘Project Mars’

With the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) integrating payloads for the “Mars Orbiter Mission”, India’s plan to send a spacecraft to the red planet is inching towards reality. After leaving the earth’s orbit in November, the spacecraft will cruise in deep‐space for about 10 months and will reach Mars around September 2014. Sources within the […]

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