With the Government of India dithering over giving final clearance to the much talked of high profile programme for the Indian manned spaceflight, this project of national importance has ceased to be on the priority list of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). For the sustained focus of ISRO on the Mars orbiter mission implied […]
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In what could be described as a historic achievement of immense scientific and technological significance, India’s first ever interplanetary probe, Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), with a lift-off mass of 1340 kg was put into an elliptical orbit around the earth by means of an augmented version of the four stage space workhorse, Polar Satellite Launch […]
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The successful insertion of India’s first interplanetary probe, Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) into its final orbit around the Red Planet recently following a series of complex and challenging operations, has opened up a new, scintillating chapter in the exciting space history of India. Verily, India has accomplished the distinction of becoming the first country […]
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The quest to explore the unknown has remained an integral part of the human spirit down the centuries. In fact, the space age heralded by the launch of Soviet Sputnik in 1957 stands out as a sterling tribute to the human vision to look beyond the spaceship earth to sustain human presence in the final […]
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Indian aerospace industry is yet tightly compartmentalized in the commercial/scientific extremely heartwarming exertions of the Indian Space Research Organisation and the military/defence activities of the Defence Research and Development Organisation which has produced the entire range of several families of missiles from the long-distance Agni 5 to the Prithvi Advanced Air Defence anti-ballistic missile defence […]
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Indian defence forces, as part of the strategy to boost operational efficiency and combat fitness at all levels, are looking at acquiring state of the art communications systems that are secure, robust and reliable. In fact, the massive intelligence failure suffered by the Indian defence forces during and before the 1999 short lived Kargil conflict […]
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In a striking technological achievement, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which has achieved the distinction of pulling off of a successful Indian space story on a shoe string budget, has developed a high end multi object tracking radar(MOTR) that can track space debris, which, in recent years, has become a major threat to orbiting satellites […]
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The rationale for an Aerospace Command was succinctly articulated by the doyen of strategic thinkers in military uniform, a Vir Chakra recipient, the late Air Commodore Jasjit Singh. He had written in his call for military synergy: A century of air power has progressively shifted the equation where the air forces have provided the central […]
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For more than a decade now, the passionately deliberated proposal for the creation of a tri service Indian aerospace command, has been in the limelight with the eight decades plus old Indian Air Force (IAF) stridently articulating the need for such a formidable military structure fully well supported by a string satellites meant for a […]
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Most militaries are now focusing on hitting a target with a missile or autonomous weapon anywhere in the world in less than an hour which is steadily encouraging the development of hypersonic weapon that can decimate a target with high level of precision as well. Both the US and China are getting into a race […]
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