Archive For September, 2014
The Indian Defence Research and Development Organization has recently unveiled a new firearms system that it has been developing with private participation: the Advanced Towed Artillery Guns System (ATAGS). The ATAGS, which will be ready for production in 2019, has over 6,000 different components. ATAGS is a light-weight, long-range automated gun that will weigh in at […]
India, not US, will be the launch-pad for Amazon’s plan to deliver packages using drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, according to two people aware of the development. The US-based e-tailer will debut its drone delivery service with trials in Mumbai and Bangalore, cities where it has warehouses, the sources said on condition of anonymity. Last […]
ISRO is planning to develop communication satellites in higher frequency bands and power and data handling capacity in the range of 100 Gigabits per second to meet the growing demands of broadband internet and rural telecom connectivity, ISRO chairman Dr K Radhakrishnan said. Radhakrishnan also said the premier space research organisation is looking for suitable […]
August 06./ITAR-TASS/. BrahMos Aerospace will be ready to deliver to the Indian Air Force the air-launched version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in 2016, the company new President Mr Sudhir Kumar Mishra said. The air-launched missile will be installed on the Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighters, the head of the Russian-Indian JV told ITAR-TASS in an […]
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is to launch a Technology Development and Transfer (TDTC) a market oriented programme under the Component Two of the Ghana Skills and Technology Development project. The CSIR-TDTC project seeks to bridge the gap between Ghana’s Research and the private sector through the implementation of an improved technology […]
The passage of a comet, Siding Spring, will be the first astronomical event that the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft or ‘Mangalyaan’ will encounter once it reaches the red-planet next month. The comet that is scheduled to fly past the red planet on October 19 could pose a potential threat to the survival of […]
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will deliver the Advance Early Warning and Control System to the Indian Air Force within six months, according to Mr Avinash Chander, Secretary of the Department of Defence Research and Development, and Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister. Speaking to The Hindu, on the sidelines of the convocation […]
NASA scientists have proposed a new technology that would park a robotic space station in space. Those satellites currently floating in Earth’s orbit don’t power themselves, you know. The galactic Chevron would be used to service the thousands of satellites currently circling our home planet these are the same satellites being used to ensure you […]
IAF’s frontline fighter jet Sukhoi-30MKI will be modified under new specifications laid down by its Russian manufacturers to fix mid-air engine trouble in its fleet. The move comes after the IAF faced an unusually high number of mid-air engine failures over the past two years (January 2012 onwards) and asked the Russians to rectify the […]
Juhu aerodrome, was delayed by almost an hour and 30 minutes due to visibility issues and an enthusiastic media contingent, which crowded around the plane clicking photos. ” The Air Traffic Control gave us a ten-minute clearance around 11am but since we couldn’t clear the space, we missed that time slot,” explained Mrs Mansi Shirodkar, […]