Archive For February, 2014
The nuclear‐capable, surface‐to‐surface missile was test‐fired from a mobile launcher in salvo mode from launch complex‐3 of the Integrated Test Range at 9.48 a.m. The Strategic Forces Command testfired Prithvi‐II, a surface‐to‐surface strategic missile, from a mobile launcher in the Integrated Test Range, near Chandipur, in Odisha. The missile, which can carry a nuclear warhead […]
A re‐engined and modified version of the 14‐seater Saras, the Light Transport Aircraft being developed by the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) may finally take off in 15 days. This comes weeks after Light Combat Aircraft Tejas obtained the initial operational clearance‐2, almost 30 years since conception. NAL director Dr Shyam Chetty told TOI: “The aircraft […]
Defence scientists from the Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE), a DRDO lab located in Agra, have begun the mission to develop India’s yet‐to‐be‐named airship. Deviating from DRDO’s previous practice of launching an ‘open study’ ahead of any new project, the scientists are taking the ‘production realisation’ route in their effort to demonstrate the […]
The Indian Institute of Kharagpur (IIT-K), the lone IIT featured in the top 500 universities as per the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ACWU), has been dropped in the latest edition of the rankings released last week. Only one institution from India has made it to the top 500 in the ACWU 2011 rankings, which […]
India’s first indigenously built nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, INS Arihant would be going to sea trials within “a few weeks or months” as its preliminary harbour acceptance trials are over and various systems, including nuclear propulsion, have proceeded satisfactorily and as per the time schedule. The submarine would undergo sea trials, during which all the […]
Researchers using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have found that Saturn’s rings formed around 4.4 billion years ago, shortly after the planet itself took shape. The origin of Saturn’s ring system remains hotly debated, with some researchers arguing that it’s a relatively young structure and others holding that it coalesced long ago, at roughly the […]
India is planning to carry out a development trial of the 4,000 km‐range nuclear weapon capable Agni‐4 missile off the coast of Odisha next week. This would be the third test‐firing of the missile, which has the second‐largest striking range in country’s weapon arsenal. The third test‐firing of the Agni‐4 missile is planned to be […]
Casualties in the Odisha cyclone would have been higher had there not been Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), asserted scientific advisor to ISRO Mr V Koteswara Rao. Ever since the launch of its ambitious Mars Orbiter Mission, ISRO has been facing questions whether the country should afford such costly research programmes. The question once again […]
The GSAT‐14 communication satellite, put into orbit by the Geoynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV‐D5), is in good health, and its systems are normal, satellite specialists of the Indian Space Research Organisation said. The ISRO successfully executed the satellite’s first orbit‐raising manoeuvre, giving commands to the satellite’s propulsion system called the Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM). Two […]
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman DR K Radhakrishnan said the space agency will confidently look forward for heavy satellite carriage contracts from foreign parties after it successfully launches one more Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) or rocket. He also said the space agency is working with its American counterpart for the development of a […]