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India's second moon mission to carry five
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September 2010
Bangalore. India's second
moon mission in 2013 will carry five scientific
instruments on board the spacecraft Chandrayaan-2
that will also have a lander and a rover
to ride on the lunar surface, according
to the Indian Space Research Organisation
(ISRO).
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India launches five satellites |
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July 2010
New Delhi. India successfully
placed five satellites in space July 12,
including an advanced high resolution cartography
satellite Cartosat-2B.
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Sunita Williams headed for the stars again
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July 2010
Washington. Indian American
astronaut Sunita Williams, who holds the
record of the longest spaceflight (195 days)
for female space travellers, will head for
the stars once again in June 2012.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis: An Awesome Flight
into History |
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June 2010
Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral,
USA. It was a boy’s dream come
true for me as I watched the big and awesome
Space Shuttle Atlantis lift off on June
14, leaving behind trails of massive orange
flames and grey and while smoke on its last
journey for the mankind.
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'Indian rockets to use atmospheric oxygen
as fuel by year-end' |
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June 2010
Chennai. In an attempt
to make its rockets lighter and carry heavier
satellites, the Indian space agency is planning
to flight test by the end of this year its
own air-breathing engine that will use atmospheric
oxygen as fuel.
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Weaponisation of Space |
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May 2010
New Delhi. The militarisation
of outer space – the so-called ‘last frontier’
and ‘ultimate high ground’ – happened many
decades ago when military satellites began
to be deployed for surveillance, communications
and navigation. Will the weaponisation of
space be an inevitable consequence?
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UAE students to get training for space mission |
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May 2010
Abu Dhabi. Three engineering
students of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
will be trained for space missions by the
US space agency NASA.
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India’s experimental Cryogenic Rocket test
fails |
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April 2010
New Delhi. India’s maiden
attempt to launch heavy satellites through
cryogenic rockets failed April 15 with programme
director saying another attempt would be
made next year after analyzing mission flaws.
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Indian
Navy eyes ‘Gagan’ to achieve network centricity |
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March 2010
New Delhi. Keeping in
league with the maritime powers of the world
having topline navigation system, the Indian
Navy eyes to get a network of seven satellites,
collectively termed Gagan, by 2012.
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India
to test world's third largest solid rocket
booster |
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December 2009
Chennai. The Indian space
agency is expected to take a major step
in January towards realising its next generation
rocket by ground-firing the world's third
largest - in terms of fuel mass and length
- solid rocket booster developed in-house.
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Russia
to develop nuclear-powered spacecraft for
Mars mission |
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November 2009
Moscow. The Presidential
Commission for Modernization and Technological
Development of Russia's Economy has called
for developing a transport-energy module
with a megawatt-class nuclear propulsion
unit for space.
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India’s
Moon Mission and its early termination |
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September 2009
Bangalore. The abrupt
termination of the Rs 3860-million maiden
Indian probe to moon Chandrayaan-1 was not
an unexpected development.
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Informationising’
War: China Unleashes the Space Domain |
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September 2009
New Delhi. As we delve
into witnessing warfare in the age of globalisation,
there is a perceptible tapering of existent
boundaries between soldiers and non-soldiers
and the chasm between warfare and non-warfare
means being rapidly filled up.
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India’s
Space Programme |
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August 2009
Bangalore. In what has
been perceived to be a setback to the Indian
space programme, the country's maiden lunar
probe Chandrayan-1 has been hit by a snag
following the failure of its vital star
sensor on April 26.
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Is
Russia ready for Star Wars? |
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August 2009
Moscow. Russia is planning
to build a fundamentally new force of Air
and Space Defense (ASD) by 2020 to counter
development of new generation air and space
attack weapons.
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US
to strengthen Spy Satellite network |
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July 2009
Washington. The US has
decided to build and deploy a new generation
of spy satellites, likely within the first
half of the next decade.
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China
Space exploration gains pace |
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January 2009
Moscow. China is going
to play a major role in the global space
exploration program. Soon, a new center
for space research may emerge in the Eastern
hemisphere and push the current players
aside..
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ISRO
looks beyond Chandrayan-1 |
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December 2008
Bangalore. With India’s
maiden lunar probe Chandrayaan-1 firmly
in its pre-determined orbit of 100-km above
the lunar surface, India has convincingly
demonstrated its prowess in orbiting and
navigating a deep space probe with a high
degree of precision.
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India
is on the Moon |
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November 2008
Bangalore. India’s space
scientists celebrated the birthday of the
country’s first Prime Minister on November
14 in style by landing the Indian national
flag on the moon in a climax to a 22-day
mission that galvanized the whole nation.
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Space
assets are key to Russia’s Nuclear Forces |
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August 2008
Moscow. If the Defense
Ministry sticks to its plans to devote three-fourths
of this year’s booster rocket launches to
placing new satellites in orbit, there is
hope that Russia’s future strategic nuclear
missile forces will be not only the sword,
but also a strong shield for the country.?
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India’s
space odyssey: From bullock cart to Moon Rocket |
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May 2008
Bangalore. Why does India,
a poor country, want to explore the moon
instead of using that money to alleviate
poverty?
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International
Space Security Conference |
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November 2007
New Delhi. Space is a
realm currently used for scientific, commercial,
and military purposes. Satellites make weather
reporting possible, allow people to call
and transmit data overseas instantaneously,
and facilitate the fl ights of precision-guided
munitions (of the type used in the Gulf
War and in Afghanistan) to their targets
with great accuracy.
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International
Space Station, its Future |
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November 2007
Moscow. In all probability,
the headline should be rephrased and run
like this: who will man the International
Space Station (ISS) next?
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Space
Programme - Adding to India's Brand Image |
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July 2007
International prestige in science and technology
is critical. This is Soft Power.
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