Archive For February, 2018

CASC to carry out 35 aerospace launches in 2018

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said Wednesday that the corporation would conduct 35 launches in 2018, the most missions in its history. The missions include the launches of the Chang’e-4 lunar probe, Long March-5 carrier rocket and BeiDou navigation satellites, the corporation said. CASC said 2018 would be its busiest and most important […]

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69th Republic Day: Rich exhibition of India’s defence capabilities and cultural heritage at New Delhi’s Rajpath

India on Friday celebrated its 69th Republic Day as the Rajpath, the capital’s main promenade, came alive with march pasts and colourful tableaux to showcase the country’s military might, cultural legacy and its initiatives, with 10 ASEAN leaders as chief guests watching the proceedings. The parade ceremony commenced with Prime Minister Narendra Modi laying the […]

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UDAN 2 to link 73 airports, helipads

The Centre on said 73 underserved and unserved airports and helipads would be connected under the phase 2 of the regional connectivity scheme UDAN. Of the 90 proposals awarded to provide flight connectivity to more than 300 regional routes, Interglobe Aviation, the parent firm of IndiGo, was awarded a maximum of 20 proposals followed by […]

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Indian airpower: go big on Tejas, or go home

The Indian Air Force’s decision to issue a request for proposal (RFP) to Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the procurement of 83 Tejas MK-1A light combat aircraft (LCA) bodes well for the cause of military-industrial indigenisation in India. And since this RFP has been issued at a time when HAL is putting in place the […]

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China’s Newly Tested Ballistic Missile Armed With a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle

China carried out the first flight-tests of a new kind of ballistic missile with a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) in November, The Diplomat has learned. According to a U.S. government source who described recent intelligence assessments on the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) on the condition of anonymity, China recently conducted two tests of […]

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PSLV Successfully Launches 31 Satellites in a Single Flight

ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, in its forty second flight, successfully launched the 710 kg Cartosat-2 Series Remote Sensing Satellite along with 30 co-passenger satellites today (January 12, 2018) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. This flight is designated as PSLV-C40. After a flight lasting 16 minutes 37 seconds, the satellites achieved the polar […]

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Rocket expert Dr K. Sivan new Space Secretary

Rocket scientist Dr K. Sivan, currently Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, is to be the next Secretary of the Department of Space, and Chairman of the Space Commission and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO ), with a term of three years. Dr. Sivan will shortly take over from A.S. Kiran Kumar as […]

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India successfully test-fires Agni-5 ballistic missile

India test-fires Agni-5, the most advanced missile in the Agni series with a strike range of over 5,000 km from a test range off Odisha coast India on Thursday successfully test-fired its nuclear capable surface-to-surface ballistic missile Agni-5—the most advanced missile in the Agni series with a strike range of over 5,000 km from a […]

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Saras the Phoenix rises again

First flight trial of the new version of the indigenous civilian airplane proves successful , took off from the HAL Airport , touches 8,500 feet Those in the know-how said the first of the over six “design confidence building” trials went off successfully. For 40 minutes, the aircraft, accompanied by a defence escort, flew to […]

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