Archive For June, 2014
Forty-four Indians, including 17 women, are among 705 aspirants shortlisted for an ambitious private mission to send four people on a planned one-way trip to Mars in 2024 to colonise the red planet. The Netherlands based non-profit organisation Mars One announced that 353 hopefuls from around the world have been eliminated from the selection programme […]
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. will set up a faculty chair at IIT-Kharagpur’s Department of Aerospace Engineering with a focus on new technologies in the aerospace industry, the company said after the two signed a preliminary agreement. HAL plans to start one more at IIT-Bombay shortly. Source: Hindu
The missile can carry nuclear warheads over 3,000 km. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully flight-tested an underwater-launched missile called K-4 with a range of about 3,000 km on March 24. The launch took place from a pontoon submerged more than 30 metres deep in the sea off the Visakhapatnam coast. After a […]
The Defence Research Development Organisation finally has its own flying platform, a light aircraft, for testing a new set of air-borne radars. The recently acquired ‘Nabhratna’ (or jewel in the sky), a custom-built Dornier-228 aircraft, will speed up the development cycle of special radars that the DRDO is working on, Director-General Mr Avinash Chander said. […]
Exactly two months after a Malaysia Airlines’ aircraft (MH 370) went missing, India has made it mandatory for all its planes to be tracked from departure to arrival. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation’s (DGCA) new rule is applicable to both passenger and cargo aircraft “in view of the difficulties faced in operations after an […]
The first Airbus A-380 planes would start flying in and out of India from May 30 with the Singapore Airlines (SIA) becoming the first carrier to introduce daily superjumbo flights from Delhi and Mumbai. The move comes barely four months after the government allowed operation of the world’s largest aircraft late January at Delhi, Mumbai, […]