Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
The moon impact probe (MIP) aboard the unmanned Chandrayaan-1 will be dropped on the lunar surface tomorrow marking the beginning of the operational phase of India
THE first orbit reduction manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-1 has been successfully completed, taking the spacecraft as near as 200 km from the moon, according to space agency Isro. As part of the manoeuvre, which began at 20:09 IST on Sunday, the 440 newton liquid engine of the spacecraft was fired for …
The Indian Space Research Organisation's moon mission marks the first venture into "deep space" for an indigenous satellite. India now joins a select club of nations which have achieved this "milestone".
Minutes after the launch of Chandrayaan-1 at Sriharikota, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G. Madhavan Nair spoke to Managing Editor Raj Chengappa about its importance and India
On October 3, Mylswamy Annadurai, the mission director, Chandrayaan-1, is visibly tense. The spacecraft, moved out the previous day from the laboratories of the isro Satellite Centre in Bangalore, is being transported at 20 kmph by road to the spaceport in Sriharikota, some 300 km away. Annadurai is tense because …
Can information and communication technologies (ICTs) support development and social infrastructure projects? Will the money invested in communication devices and computers bring in tangible benefits to the targeted group or it is better spent on providing food, shelter, health and education? This is the dilemma funding agencies and donor organisations/governments …
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) will launch Chandrayaan-I, India's maiden mission to the moon, in September. In an interview on the sidelights of a seminar here on Thursday, the chairman of Isro, Mr G. Madhavan Nair, said that the final tests have been on to launch the spacecraft to …
It might be a rather tiny piece in an ambitious mission but without a semiconductor chip, a satellite or any other communication device cannot transmit or receive data. Though developed Western countries have imposed complex restrictions on the supply of Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) chips to India, a Defence Research and …
The Indian Space Research Organisation makes history by launching 10 satellites in one flight of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. THE Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, the old faithful of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), was suddenly the focus of media attention in end-April: It was to launch 10 satellites …
The anxiety at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre was palpable. As the countdown ended, ISRO's chairman G. Madhavan Nair and his team could hardly believe their eyes. ISRO's pride was skyrocketing. Despite their optimism, it was a nail-biting launch when Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) lifted off with 10 satellites …
One rocket Ten satellites. ISRO's PSLV triumph helps it zoom into a niche orbit. THE Indian Space Research Organisation (isro) can justly be proud of a rare achievement. On April 28, isro's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, pslv-C9, successfully launched a record 10 satellites into orbit. These included the 690 kg …
Fuel-efficient and low on emissions, hybrid cars are the vehicles of the future Drive a hybrid car like Cameron Diaz and Brad Pitt because with environmental concerns over global warming on the rise and the need to reduce dependence on carbon-based fuels urgent, the ministry of finance, in its pre-budget …
Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) human space mission proposal has got its first significant budgetary share, Rs 125 crore, while the Department of Space has got 24 per cent raise in outlay for its 2008-09 activities. The space budget of Rs 4,074 crore, compared with Rs 3,290 crore last fiscal, …
Allocation Will Help Begin Work Related To Manned Flight, Says Isro TEAM TOI India's ambitious plan to launch manned space missions received a boost on Friday with the government sanctioning more than Rs 100 crore for the initiative. With the budgetary allocation jumping from Rs 4 crore to Rs 125 …
With more recent data on the Himalayan glaciers from the Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellites, scientists of the Space Applications Centre (SAC) of the Indian Space Research Organisaation (ISRO) at Ahmedabad now have much stronger evidence of the finger print of global warming in the observed alarming retreat of these …
