Men behind Mars dreams
Kurian Mathew
Principal investigator, Methane Sensors for Mars (MSM)
Mathew is aware of the keen gaze of the World space community on the methane sensors his team put together at Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad. He however, wears the attention with rare grace and...
EZHIMALA (KANNUR): India's first indigenous Aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, being built at public sector Cochin Shipyard Limited and formally launched in August this year, would be commissioned by 2017, chief of Naval Staff Admiral D K Joshi, said here on Saturday.
"With the commissioning of INS...
Agni-I missile successfully test-fired
BALASORE (Odisha): India on Friday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear-capable Agni-I ballistic missile with a strike range of 700km from a test range off Odisha coast as part of a user trial by the Army.
The surface-to-surface...
NEW DELHI: When CAG Shashi Kant Sharmawas elected in New York with a thumping majority as a member of the UN Board of Auditors on Friday evening it was an unusual strategic alliance that worked in his favour.
China and Pakistan teamed up with India to defeat US-backed the Philippines, and...
India's October 28 Mars mission on schedule: Isro
BANGALORE: Isro on Saturday said the country's October 28 Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) was on schedule, dismissing suggestions that Nasa may not be in a position to offer it deep space network support following government shutdown in the US...
Nasa, Isro in talks for jointly developing satellite for first time
BANGALORE: US space agency Nasa and India's premier space agency Isro are in talks for jointly building a satellite for the first time.
"Now, there is a feasibility study going on whether we can jointly make a satellite, with...
Perigee: 282.464 km (Planned 285 km +/- 5 km)
Apogee: Within 20 km of the Planned 20650 km(+/-75 km)
Inclination offset of 0.46 degrees (within tolerance of 0.5 degrees).
Now that is called precisement!! :cheers:
For anybody who missed the launch...
Indian PSLV successfully launches IRNSS-1A navigation satellite
July 1, 2013 by William Graham
India have launched their Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on Monday carrying IRNSS-1A, the first satellite of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite...
NEW DELHI: India is not going to get a General No.1 anytime soon. Much like the politico-bureaucratic combine scuttled the recommendation for a chief of defence staff (CDS) after the 1999 Kargil conflict, the defence ministry has expressed major reservations against the fresh proposal for a...
IMA curry-culum is very tough. The all the cadets must be doing lots of mugging to pass in theory. You are understanding me, no? Then I felicitate you on your brain power. I will send the gift now only!
Make sense of THAT!
:smart: :omghaha: :omghaha:
Anyway English is a funny language by...
What you failed to consider is- U238 is used for energy production in nuclear reactors. and U235 is used in nuclear bomb. So, one cannot interchange them. Anyway Indian nuclear program is plutonium based. only source is from used nuclear fuel. So, we will have to first use the domestically...