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'When a Project Director is appointed, the whole organization -- including the Chairman ISRO -- works for his success. It is a lesson that has been of abiding value all through the other projects I have worked on,' recalls the late President, one of the earliest pioneers at ISRO.
Indian space scientists are designing a new generation satellite with unfurlable antenna for mobile television services - the proposed spacecraft would have multimedia applications as well.
Scientists are working on conducting various tests for the ambitious Gaganyaan mission and the agency is coordinating with the Navy and others in this connection, he said.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will perform the final manoeuvre on Saturday to inject Aditya-L1 spacecraft -- the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun -- into its final destination orbit, some 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth.
India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on Wednesday successfully sent into orbit four satellites, including the Indo-French tropical weather satellite Megha-Tropiques.
India on Wednesday indicated that it would take up the issue of spoofing of terrorists' satellite phones, which hamper efforts to track them, with Pakistan."We always take up (issues) whenever something bothers us or Pakistan. We always take up (issues) mutually," External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said. He was responding when asked to comment on reports that Pakistan is 'spoofing' satellite phones commonly used by terrorists, thus hampering efforts to track their movement
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C15 carrying five payloads, including India's remote sensing satellite Cartosat-2B, successfully lifted off from the spaceport in Sriharikota on Monday.
The satellite will give India the capability to keep tabs on missile launches in its neighbourhood.
Russian space experts have forecast that the defunct six-tonne NASA satellite, what is set to crash on the Earth soon, is likely to fall in the Indian Ocean.
Karan Rastogi registered a straight set 7-6 (5), 6-3 victory over Vishal Uppal at the ITF Men's Satellite Masters
Pakistan's PakSat-1R geostationary communications satellite was on Thursday launched into space by a Chinese rocket from a site in southwest China.
The Indian ace easily beat Indonesia's Prima Simpatiaji in the final.
Only three countries (United States, Russia and China) have successfully landed spacecraft on the airless lunar surface.
The United States government has approved a licence authorising Boeing Co. to enter into talks with India's premier space agency for jointly developing and marketing communication satellites, an official said Tuesday.
Indian-American Pradman Kaul, chairman and chief executive officer Hughes Network Systems has been named 'Via Satellite' Magazine's Satellite Executive of the Year for 2008.
The Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system is about 1.5 million km from the Earth. It is about one per cent of the total distance between the Earth and the Sun.
RIL executive director P M S Prasad on November 25 wrote to Oil Secretary G C Chaturvedi highlighting five critical issues, including approval of pre-development activities for satellite and R-series fields in the KG-D6 block, which have been awaiting the nod from the Oil Ministry and its technical advisor, the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons.
The first good view of the aftermath of Nepal's deadly earthquake from a satellite showed that a broad swath of ground near Kathmandu lifted vertically
Aditya -- the name in Sanskrit refers to the Sun -- is a coronagraphy spacecraft manufactured at the U R Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru to study the solar atmosphere.
The NRSC satellite imagery revealed that the lake covered approximately 162.7 hectares. Its area increased to 167.4 hectares on September 28 but drastically reduced to 60.3 hectares.
ISRO's maiden solar mission, Aditya L1, has captured its first high energy X-ray glimpse of solar flares. During its first observation period from approximately October 29, the High Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer (HEL1OS) on board Aditya-L1 spacecraft has recorded the impulsive phase of solar flares, the space agency said in a statement on Tuesday.
Lauding India's ambitious space programme, The New York Times has said the country, currently witnessing an 'explosive' growth in space-tech start-ups, is set to 'transform the planet's connection to the final frontier' and can emerge as a 'counterweight' to China.
The next manned space flight is scheduled for 2005 and will have more than one astronaut aboard.
Bihar government has decided to take the help of satellites to identify villages, including small hamlets, for rural electrification, state Energy Minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav said on Thursday.
Chinese high-resolution satellites have found three oil slicks which scientists believe might be linked to the missing Malaysian plane, providing a new direction to the multinational search operations which have failed to spot the wreckage.
With Ganapath opening to shockingly low numbers at the box office, it is almost unlikely that the promised sequel will be released.
President George W Bush ordered the Pentagon to shoot down the satellite through a Navy missile just before it reenters earth's atmosphere.
The pilot scheme to develop satellite towns around seven mega cities will spill over to the 12th Plan period (2013 to 2018), as against the original deadline of April 2012.
A 34-year-old South Korean engineer who scavenged cheap electronic stores for six years has made a $500 (Rs 27,500) satellite in his basement, which will be launched into space this year.
As India's first solar exploration satellite reached space, four Kerala public sector undertakings, including Keltron, have reason to be delighted as they too have contributed to this achievement by the country. Various products indigenously developed and manufactured by the four PSUs - Keltron, Steel and Industrial Forgings Limited (SIFL), Travancore Cochin Chemicals (TCC) and Kerala Automobiles Ltd (KAL) - have been used in the Aditya L1 mission. This milestone achieved by the PSUs was highlighted by state Industries Minister P Rajeev in a Facebook post.
'We want to prove to the world that they will get the best code written from a small place like Wayanad.'
Satellite imagery showed a layer of dense fog extending from Punjab and north Rajasthan to the northeast. Patches of fog were also visible along the east coast.
It will be the first time that Israel will launch a satellite aboard an Indian rocket.
The postmortem report of the slain children has revealed that the assailant stabbed the elder brother 13 times and his sibling 11 times, officials said, adding injury marks have been found on the neck, chest and other parts of bodies of the two children.
The ICG and Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad apprehended the fishing boat in a joint operation in the high seas on Sunday afternoon, the coast guard said in a release in Ahmedabad.
They may have wider roads, gardens and towering buildings but satellite townships developing in the neighbourhood of metropolitan cities are no better when it comes to basic necessities like water supply, electricity, health facilities and transport.
ISRO, through Antrix Corporation, has inked commercial agreements with EADS Astrium of Europe to jointly make and supply two commercial communication satellites.
ISRO officials said GSAT-4 is a technology demonstrator. Its communication payload comprises multi-beam Ka-band beam pipe and regenerative transponder and navigation payload.
