Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
In the early and mid- 1980s, Doordarshan news would sometimes show pictures of celestial bodies taken by the US spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. It changed our worldview. Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter and Neptune were not the vaguely spherical celestial entities depicted in encyclopedia and school textbooks. They had mountains, …
Hyderabad, Sept. 27: The director of the National Remote Sensing Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation, Dr V. Jayaraman, said space technology can be of great help in promoting agriculture, food security and health in India.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Foreign countries are keenly watching the development of launch vehicle technology in Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) which has made notable achievements in aerospace technology, S. Anantha Narayanan, Director, National Physical Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), has said. Inaugurating the Seventh National Seminar on
Boeing Plans To Send Passengers Into Space Photo: Reuters/NASA/Handout Boeing Co plans to offer passengers the chance to fly into space on a craft it is developing for travel in low-Earth orbit, the aerospace company said on Wednesday. Boeing said it reached an agreement with Virginia-based Space Adventures to market …
Johnson TA The second Indian space mission to the moon, Chandrayaan 2, scheduled for 2013, will have three new Indian payloads and will repeat two instruments from the 2008 Chandrayaan 1 mission that lead to the discovery of water in the form of ice near the North Pole of the …
Sriharikota: Isro will launch an unmanned space mission to orbit around the earth in 2013 as a prelude to its manned mission, to get an idea of the space environment and how the system behaves. Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan told after the successful launch of PSLVC15 on Monday,
PSLV Delivers 5 Satellites At One Go Chennai: In a flawless launch, five satellites, including the advanced high-resolution cartography satellite Cartosat-2B, were placed in orbit on Monday by India
SRIHARIKOTA, 12 JULY: In a textbook launch, India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) today successfully placed into orbit remote sensing satellite Cartosat-2B and four other satellites after a perfect lift off from the spaceport here. At the end of an over 51-hour countdown, the 44.4 metre-tall four-stage PSLV-C-15, costing Rs …
This report aims to explain to governments, decision makers and disaster professionals the potential uses of geoinformation technologies for reducing disaster risks and losses, based on the knowledge and experience of experts in these fields. It covers all regions of the world and all aspects of disaster risk and its …
KOLKATA, 29 JUNE: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to launch a satellite to measure green house gas emission, Dr K Radhakrishnan, chairman of Isro, said this today. He was talking to reporters this morning at the Indian Statistical Institute on the sidelines of the 117 birth anniversary …
MUMBAI: On the afternoon of May 29 2010, IIT-B literally zoomed into the space age with the formal commissioning of a satellite-tracking ground station on the terrace of the aerospace engineering department. The primary role of the new space-age outfit will be to track IIT-B
This report contains an assessment of the threat facing the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region from the recent (post-1950s) and rapid formation of meltwater lakes on the surface or at the end of a large number of the region's glaciers. It provides a detailed background to the present situation and aims to …
Buzz Aldrin knows what it is to be second best. In his most famous photograph, his face is not visible. Taken on the moon, Aldrin’s face is entirely hidden inside his space helmet. But you can see the figure of Neil Armstrong, who took the photograph, reflected in the mirrored …
The Indian Space Research Organisation is all set to do the country proud by launching its heavy geostationary communication satellite on 15 April using the indigenously built cryogenic engine, the technology for which was being denied to it since 1994. According to Mr K Radhakrishnan, chairman, Isro, only five countries …
B.R. SRIKANTH ENGALURU In a year's time India will fly an indigenous version of a space shuttle. On its first flight, the rocket-powered craft, shaped like an aircraft, will climb 60 km into the earth
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to launch its indigenous cryogenic engine fitted Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) from Sriharikota on April 15. Sources at ISRO say the Indian-made GSLV is much-awaited and would be a landmark event in the Indian Space programme. The source also confirmed that …
Scramjet-Rocket Combo Is Set To Revolutionize The Way Payloads Are Launched Washington: In what could lower the cost of reaching space, aerospace scientists claim to be developing a hypersonic aircraft by using superfast air-breathing engines called scramjets.
