Archive For March, 2016
Captive flight trials of an advanced, state-of-the-art Anti-Radiation Missile (ARM) are planned for April-May this year, and the maiden flight test by year-end by the missile technologists of the Defence Research and Development Organisation. The air-to-surface tactical missile being developed by Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL) will target the enemy’s air defence capabilities by […]
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to use electric propulsion system on satellites for station keeping and orbital manoeuvre in two years. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the two-day 10th International High Energy Materials Conference and Exhibition, Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) K. Sivan said besides VSSC, Liquid Propulsion […]
A group of scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has successfully designed a sensor to detect the presence of harmful e-coli bacterium in food and drinking water. The sensor has been designed by the research teams of Dr Sai Siva Gorthi and Prof Sundarrajan Asokan of Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics and Robert […]
The Space Launch System (SLS) — NASA’s most powerful rocket ever that will launch an uncrewed Orion spacecraft to a stable orbit beyond the Moon in 2018 — will also carry 13 tiny satellites to test innovative ideas. These small satellite secondary payloads or ‘CubeSats’ will carry science and technology investigations to help pave the […]
NASA’s “flying” telescope aboard a highly modified Boeing 747SP jetliner has begun its fourth series of flights to map planets, asteroids, stars, galaxies and more. This operational period, known as “Cycle 4″, is a one-year-long observing period in which the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is scheduled for 106 flights between now and the […]
An engineer from the University of Michigan has developed a prototype of a thruster that may form the basis for a propulsion system to take a manned spacecraft to Mars in the 2020s. NASA has funded a spaceflight propulsion system to be built around a tabletop-sized thruster developed by Alec Gallimore, the Richard F and […]
The defence sector is pinning its hopes on a substantial rise in allocation in the upcoming Budget. In anticipation, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is gearing up for a massive modernisation of the weaponry and strategic defence, while initiating projects under the ‘Make in India’ programme. According to officials, the MoD is expecting an increase […]
The Integrated Global Bus Avionics Processing System (IGAPS) popularly called Mission Computer is a core aircraft computing platform with features like ARINC 664 global bus, ARINC 818 fibre channel video bus and ARINC 653 compliance.This sophisticated state-of-the-art onboard computing system has been successfully designed, developed and integrated for the first time in India by CSIR-National […]
In a welcome move, India’s space agency ISRO plans to privatise the operation of its four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) by 2020. Accordingly, the integration and launch of the rocket will be managed by an industrial consortium through ISRO’s commercial arm Antrix Corporation. Till date PSLV has 33 missions under its belt of which […]
In a landmark discovery for physics and astronomy, international scientists said they have glimpsed the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time, which Albert Einstein predicted a century ago. When two black holes collided some 1.3 billion years ago, the joining of those two great masses sent forth a wobble that hurtled […]