Archive For July, 2015
Boeing Co (BA.N) said it would slow production of its 747-8 jumbo jet by 23 percent to one per month starting in March, an effort to keep the production line running amid sluggish demand for the iconic, humped-top plane. Boeing, the world’s largest plane maker, is currently building 747s at a rate of 1.5 a […]
ISRO has said it will provide navigational support to Indian Railways through ‘Gagan’ (GPS-aided geo-augmented navigation) system. “ISRO will provide satellite-generated information to the railways through space technology-based tools that will provide safety at unmanned level crossings,” ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar told reporters in Ahmedabad in reply to a question on how will […]
A plane will be flown into outer space at five times the speed of sound, deliver the payload and return to land like an aircraft. In a major technology demonstration ultimately aimed at cutting down the cost of satellite launches to one-tenth the present rates, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will flight test an […]
The orbiter spacecraft module structure of the proposed Chandrayaan-2 mission built by it has been delivered to the ISRO Satellite Centre, Bengaluru, according to Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. Chandrayaan-2, the country’s second lunar mission since 2008, is likely to come up in 2017 or 2018 and will have a lander and a rover to explore Moon’s […]
Researchers have spotted glass on Mars that might provide clues about the past life on the ‘Red’ planet. Researchers from Brown University have used satellite data to detect deposits of glass within impact craters on Mars. Though formed in the searing heat of a violent impact, the glasses just might provide a delicate window into […]