It is raining heavily at Sriharikota where the Satish Dhawan Space Centre is located
"We will have to study newer technologies to develop capsules, which will send men to space and bring them back safely"
ISRO is developing a 100-kg "satellite bus" as demand has picked up for launching nano-satellites, chairman G Madhavan Nair said.
"They (China) should not have done that. It's against international convention. First of all, we are not supposed to weaponise outer space," Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation G Madhavan Nair told PTI in Bangalore.
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'ISRO facilities are very expensive and any damage caused by these start-ups can create havoc to our space programme.'
'What does the nation get out of the CBI's fabulous infrastructure? Very little that is useful.'
Highlighting the achievements of ISRO, he said the organization, which had modest beginnings several decades ago, is trying to establish itself as the leading player in the area of satellite launches.
The satellite has reached its final slot and will be fully operational by the month-end.
For all the jokes that have been going around for decades that when American astronaut Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, an Indian was already there, seriously, the hype about an Indian on the moon may be still be a ways off, according to the Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization G Madhavan Nair.
The seven geo-stationary satellites will cater to the navigational system requirements in cars, trains and aircraft
Besides the two US payloads, Chandrayaan-I will carry five Indian instruments, three developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and one from the Bulgarian Space Laboratory.
According to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research, the overall air quality of the national capital docked at 376 at 8:30 am on Tuesday.
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K Narayana, former director of SDSC-SHAR and currently senior advisor to the Centre, will chair the 15-member panel
Nair said: "We are talking to Google Earth to see how this can be tackled and whether sensitive areas can be blacked out."
With the development of GSLV Mark-III, India will be able to launch heavy satellites into the geosynchronous transfer orbit. This vehicle is billed as the technological successor to GSLV Mark-II.
India charged about USD 29,000 per KG rpt per kg (of satellite weight) for the mission from the ASI as it was a very specific mission
On the positive side, if India indeed decides to go ahead with the manned mission, it would give a tremendous impetus to the development of many new technologies, including relating to life-supporting ones.
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two US scientific instruments will be on board India's mission to the Moon 'Chandrayaan-1'.
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ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair acknowledged that with the booming IT sector absorbing young engineers with fat pay packets, other fields are facing the brunt.
New Delhi has targeted to boost the number of transponders India currently has from 199 to 500 by the end of the 11th five year plan (March 2012), Secretary in the Department of Space G Madhavan Nair said.
ISRO will build an identical GSLV and a satellite similar to INSAT-4C for a launch in June next year.
ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said Chandrayaan-2, to be undertaken by 2010, will have a proper lander, which would land on the lunar surface and try to explore the surface in far more detail.
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He said the country now possesses the capability to strike satellites in outer space with centimetre-level accuracy and precision.
