Archive For November, 2016
Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) paid rich tributes to Former President of India and former DRDO Chief, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on his 85th Birth Anniversary at a gala function held in Kothari Auditorium at DRDO Bhawan today. For the first time, students from various schools of Delhi were also invited at DRDO Bhawan […]
Airbus today celebrated the delivery of its 10,000th aircraft – an A350-900 for Singapore Airlines. The milestone event was marked by a special ceremony in Toulouse hosted by Airbus Group CEO Tom Enders and attended by Goh Choon Phong, CEO of Singapore Airlines. The aircraft delivered today is the sixth A350-900 for Singapore Airlines, out of […]
It’s not yet official but a behind-the-scene competition has begun among the world’s top aviation firms to convince the NDA government about the superiority of their fighter jets as the Defence Ministry explores the possibility of having a combat aircraft assembly line in India. Last week, the government wrote to some of the aviation majors seeking […]
The Karnataka government is contemplating a scaled-down version of its proposed ‘Centre of Excellence in Aerospace’ in Bengaluru to ensure an early launch. The government had first mooted the setting up of the Centre in December last to provide specialised training to students and engineers in aircraft repair, maintenance and related sectors in aerospace. The earlier […]
VSSC director K. Sivan has said that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will set up an Abdul Kalam Knowledge Centre at Thiruvananthapuram, a city that was close to the departed scientist’s heart. Talking at the Space Expo organised by Thiruvananthapuram-based ISRO Centres such as VSSC, LPSC and IISU as part of the World Space […]
Boeing Co. once helped the U.S. beat the Soviet Union in the race to the moon. Now the company intends to go toe-to-toe with newcomers such as billionaire Elon Musk in the next era of space exploration and commerce. Boeing Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg sketched out a Jetsons-like future at a conference, envisioning a commercial space-travel […]
Swedish aerospace and defence giant Saab Group is betting big on the Indian market for its fighter jet Gripen. The $800-million Saab aeronautics, which has already bagged $5 billion worth of global orders for Gripen, is planning to set up an entire production and assembly line in India to co-produce the jets under the Make […]
The Anil Ambani led-Reliance Group signed an agreement with Dassault Aviation of France, the makers of Rafale fighter jets, for a joint venture in India to be named Dassault Reliance Aerospace, to execute offsets for the recently-concluded Rafale deal. The Rafale Jet deal that India signed has a 50 per cent offset clause to be […]