Archive For September, 2018
The much-delayed Kalaburagi airport is likely to see the light of day as the Airport Authority of India (AAI) has approved the trial landing of aircraft. The proposed touchdown of the first aircraft is scheduled. According to official reports, of the three packages, 80% of works, taken up under Package I and Package II at […]
With NASA disclosing that its payload on board India’s Chandrayaan-1 orbiter has found “frozen water deposits in polar regions of the moon”, ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 mission, to be launched in the first week of January, will get an edge as it is going for deeper exploration in the same region — the south pole of the moon. Talking to TOI, ISRO chief […]
Very soon drones will hover over the skies in select villages of Haveri district to assist farmers in carrying out farming activities. The state government has roped in Delhi-based firm Omnipresent Robot Tech to deploy drones on a pilot basis to assess the crop acreage, crop types, crop health and yield estimation among others According […]
Traffic movement in chosen areas of Bengaluru is set to be managed with the help of drones from next week. A pilot project was launched in the city by IT/BT and Science & Technology Minister K.J. George. Under the Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) scheme, vehicular movement in chosen parts of the city would be monitored […]
A 10 kg rotary drone co-developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) and IIT-Kanpur was recently flown for the first time in Bengaluru, the defence public sector company said. The 10-minute flight of the helicopter-like RUAV or the Rotary Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle was powered by a 2-stroke petrol engine. The RUAV can carry a 2.5-kg […]
Despite the rapid advances in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle/drone technology, a robust drone regulatory mechanism is still not in place in India. But what about the future? To get beyond catch-up, a new UAV design and integration facility was launched by the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) here. Formally inaugurated by Union Minister for Science and Technology, […]
The Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), India’s next indigenous fighter, is expected to make its first flight by 2032. Development work on the jet is under way. “The AMCA will feature geometric stealth and will initially fly with two GE-414 engines. Once we develop our own engine, it can be replaced with that. We expect […]
Better known for his former role as the programme director and chief designer of India’s indigenous light combat aircraft (LCA), 75-year-old Dr Kota Harinarayana is the founder-chairman of General Aeronautics, an Indian Institute of Science (IISc) incubated start-up. The start-up designs and makes unmanned aerial vehicles or drones focused on security and civilian applications. One […]
If everything goes according to plan, in 40 months, three Indians will be launched into space by an Indian rocket. This is the aim of India’s ambitious manned spaceflight mission, Gaganyaan, the contours of which were outlined by Dr. K. Sivan, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). “We will do it before the […]
Tourism industry in Mysuru and Kodagu is hoping for a surge in tourist footfall — all thanks to Kannur International Airport, a greenfield airport in Kerala, which will be inaugurated for flight operations shortly. Stakeholders here argue that the airport will open a new gateway for tourism development as Kodagu is closer to Kannur and eventually […]