Archive For June, 2013
Acoustics 2013 New Delhi “Technologies for a Quieter India” Call for Papers Date: November 10-15, 2013 Organized by: Acoustical Society of India (ASI) French Acoustical Society (SFA) & CSIR- National Physical Laboratory Venue: CSIR- National Physical Laboratory Dr. K.S. Krishnan Road, New Delhi-110012, India For further Details Dr. Mahavir Singh: mahavir.acoustics@gmail.com Prof.Manell Zakharia: braczac@gmail.com
Three Indian aerospace-engineering students’ ambitious plan to help create an aircraft of the future has taken them to the finals of a global competition floated by aircraft manufacturer Airbus and Unesco. The team from SRM University, Chennai — consisting of Mr Balakrishnan Solaraju Murali, Mr Michael Thomas and Mrs Anita Mohil — is among the […]
India successfully test fired the 290‐km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from the Navy’s latest guided missile frigate INS Tarkash off the coast of Goa. The missile performed the high‐level ‘C’ manoeuvre in the predetermined flight path and successfully hit the target. The missile was launched from the Russian‐built warship at 1100 hours, BrahMos Aerospace […]
India’s one of the richest businessman Mr Mukesh Ambani’s $76 billion Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has bagged a strategic military aviation tie‐up with the leading US aerospace company, Boeing, in the field of offsets. That means Boeing will be sourcing 30% of its components worth hundreds of crores of rupees from the RIL. Sources in […]
Russia has evinced keen interest in partnering India in its ambitious initiative to design and develop a regional transport aircraft. United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), Russian state‐owned civil and military airplane manufacturer, has offered to set up joint development and manufacturing facilities in India, officials said. The offer was made during a recent visit of External […]
The Indian Air Force issued a global tender to purchase 56 tactical transport aircraft and one of the companies that have received the request for proposal (RFP) is a subsidiary of scam‐tainted Italian arms major Finmeccanica. Among others, the tender has gone to Alenia Aermacchi that represents the aeronautics division of Finmeccanica and is Italy’s […]
India may be eyeing to become one of world’s largest aviation markets, but lack of favourable policy for aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) business is hampering the growth of the segment, MRO industry sources said. The MRO sector, considered an important part of the aviation sector, is still neglected due to lack of proper […]
NEW DELHI: A DRDO laboratory behind the successful design and development of the over 5,000 km-range Agni-5 ballistic missile system will be awarded by defence minister Mr AK Antony for its contributions toward the country’s strategic projects. The Hyderabad-based Advanced System Limited headed by distinguished scientist Mr V G Sekharan would be given the Performance […]
How will man tackle quakes when he colonises moon in the not-so-distant future? India will be joining some nations in the quest for a better understanding of moonquakes as plans are afoot to send a seismometer on board the landing instrument of Chandrayaan-2 scheduled to be launched in 2014/15. Sensors of the seismometer built by […]
NASA’s first asteroid sample mission has received the final approval for its ambitious launch in 2016 and is now entering the development and testing phase. The USD one billion OSIRIS‐REx reached a major milestone after it passed a confirmation review called Key Decision Point (KDP)‐C, authorising continuation of the project into the next phase of […]