Archive For December, 2013
Ten days after it was commissioned into the Indian Navy at the North Russian shipyard of Sevmash at Severodvinsk, INS Vikramaditya left the yard’s pier, setting course for its homeport at Karwar in Karnataka. Commanded by Captain Mr Suraj Berry, Vikramaditya is at the outer anchorage at the time of filing this report, completing customs […]
After the scare it went through when it failed to raise the orbit of its Mars spacecraft to the required height, the Indian Space Research Organisation succeeded in its renewed attempt in the early hours. After the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bangalore gave commands at 5 a.m., the spacecraft’s propulsion system […]
India’s space programme has both strategy and stardust in its eyes. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), it is often forgotten, helped develop India’s strategic missiles and provided satellite and telecom support to the military. In the 1960s and 1970s, when India worked to develop a space rocket for launching satellites, there was widespread recognition […]
With the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) facing “bitter criticism” over delays in major projects like Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) and Arjun tank, Defence Minister Mr A K Antony asked the research agency to complete its programmes within the prescribed time-limit. Addressing a meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee of the Defence Ministry, Mr […]
Four missiles in the country’s most ambitious Agni series have been slated for flight tests in a month’s span. Defence sources said the Strategic Forces Command of the Indian Army would carry out user trials of Agni-I, Agni-II and Agni-III, whereas Defence Research and Development Organisation would conduct the third developmental trial of Agni-IV. All […]
India’s first emissary to another planet, the Mars Orbiter Mission, is setting off on an 11-month-long odyssey from Sriharikota on Tuesday. Although the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has benefited from its experience with the Chandrayaan-1 lunar probe despatched five years back, the technological hurdles that must be dealt with in an interplanetary mission of […]
The Defence Research and Development Organisation’s (DRDO) Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification is pushing for a one-stop facility where it can allow domestic industries supplying components for military aircraft, among others, to test their wares for qualification. Such a single infrastructure can vastly improve the time taken to complete critical defence projects and also […]
With busy plans for over 50 missions during the next five years, country’s premier space agency Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has got the Centre’s nod to establish a high-tech rocket assembly centre and also to setup third launch pad in Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) at Sriharikota. Both are coming up in 3 square […]