Archive For December, 2016
NASA‘s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS) has set the Guinness World Record for highest altitude fix of a GPS signal, at 70,000 kilometres above the surface of the Earth. Operating in a highly elliptical orbit around Earth, the four MMS spacecraft incorporate Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements into their precise tracking systems, which require extremely sensitive position […]
WASHINGTON: NASA has successfully completed building its largest space telescope, which will be 100 times more powerful than the Hubble probe and may find the first galaxies that formed in the early universe. The James Webb Space Telescope will be the successor to NASA’s 26-year-old Hubble Space Telescope. The Webb telescope’s infrared cameras are so sensitive that it needs to be shielded from […]
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has sent out a message to all its laboratories to avoid filing of patents without appropriate techno-commercial evaluation. In order to align the IP strategy of CSIR with the priorities of socio-economic development including escalating costs of patent filings, this message was sent to exercise utmost due diligence […]
ISTRAC, which shot into limelight as the nerve centre of the country’s Mars and lunar orbiter missions, has turned 40. The command and tracking centre for Earth observation or remote sensing spacecraft started its journey in September 1976, moved to Bengaluru in 1984 and today supports 15 low-Earth spacecraft and the Mars Orbiter Mission of […]
India became an associate member of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), the world’s largest nuclear and particle physics laboratory and best known as operator of the Large Hadron Collider, which found the elusive Higgs boson in 2012. India was inducted as an ‘Observer’ at CERN in 2004. The latest upgrade allows Indian companies […]
Barely a month, after 250 students launched a nano-satellite PISAT, under the mentorship of PES University staff, another group of students have started work on developing another satellite at the university, the PISAT-2. While the earlier satellite, which entered orbit on September 26 on board the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) operated by the Indian […]
India successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear capable Prithvi-II missile twice in quick succession as part of a user trial by the army from a test range at Chandipur in Odisha. The two surface-to-surface missiles which have a strike range of 350 km and are capable of carrying 500 kg to 1,000 kg of warheads […]
Tests of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) powered by Kaveri engines will be held in the next 18 months, said Dr C P Ramanarayanan, Director General of Aeronautical Systems, Defence and Research Development Organisation (DRDO). Apart from military use, the Indian Railways has also evinced interest in using it to power trains. Bharat Heavy Electricals […]
GE Aviation has launched Configuration Data Exchange (CDE) for aviation industry to drive asset productivity and maintenance optimisation. It will work with the $13-billion Capgemini to bring the CDE to the market, and for implementation services. The CDE launched at the GE Digital’s Minds and Machines here is the foundation of GE’s Intelligence Fleet offering […]
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), a day after the inauguration ceremony of its Platinum Jubilee Techno Fest, unveiled the thematic representations of ‘Aerospace & Strategic Sector’ in the 36th India International Trade Fair (IITF) at PragatiMaidan. Dr. GirishSahni, Director General (CSIR) interacted with the industrial partners and several notable dignitaries attended the […]