Bharat Rakshak

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In his own words: Some days back I requested ISRO and NASA JPL to make the MOM orbit data public. They kindly obliged and that is available through a web interface known as JPL HORIZONS. I fetch orbit data from there, calculate the positions, and do the animation. ISRO has shared the most recent dat...

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According to Sankaranarayanan KV: ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission will cross lunar orbit around 7:20 am IST / 1:50 am UTC, 2nd Dec. MOM will be the farthest Indian object from Earth within a few minutes after that (by 8:00 am) considering Chandrayaan-1's aposelene of 200 km . To see how visit http://san...

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From ISRO MOM Facebook: A great work/link by certain Sankaranarayanan KV (Kudos Sir). 8) ISRO's MOM and NASA JPL's MAVEN - An Orbit Animation - Animation of the both missions' orbits - How the apogee ascent (towards apogee) slows down the orbiter - How the apogee descent (towards perigee) speeds up ...

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rsingh wrote: Bhy eye see MALE sign onlee.........

As the old saying goes... "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus".

It's a decent logo for MOM. Shows ISRO's PR is maturing.
Also, now they are interacting with the public with their Facebook pages, it's a good sign.

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From N2YO Real Time Satellite Tracking site: NORAD ID: 39370 Int'l Code: 2013-060A Perigee: 853.1 km Apogee: 194,683.1 km Inclination: 19.4 ° Period: 5,574.2 minutes Semi major axis: 104139 km Launch date: November 5, 2013 Source: India (IND) It says the apogee is 1,94,683.1 km. But ISRO's press rel...

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Fourth supplementary orbit raising manoeuvre successful. From ISRO's page. Fourth supplementary orbit raising manoeuvre of Mars Orbiter Spacecraft, starting at 05:03:50 hrs(IST) on Nov 12, 2013, with a burn Time of 303.8 seconds has been successfully completed.The observed change in Apogee is from 7...

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ISRO's Press Release on 11 Nov MOM's Orbit Raising Manoeuvre. Plus, details about previous three orbit-raising operations. In the fourth orbit-raising operation conducted this morning (Nov 11, 2013), the apogee (farthest point to Earth) of Mars Orbiter Spacecraft was raised from 71,623 km to 78,276 ...

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^let us pray those flares bypass our mom. we can do a surya pooja to ward it off! ;) read this: http://www.firstpost.com/india/ignore-the-pessimists-why-isros-mars-mission-is-important-1213461.html Pessimist, no Sir. Far from it. MoM is protected. 400% sure. It has its good ration of Shree Yantra t...

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The most immediate danger, right now, could be the sun belching out some major X class Solar Flares as it's ramping up towards its 11-year cycle of Solar maximum. It has been shooting out some serious X2, X3 flares this way since late October. 5, Nov being the most powerful as it peaked to X3.3 and ...

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Thanks disha. Sad, in BR, we don't have Facebook like "Like" button or starring system. Indeed, very informative. Marten, thanks for the link. Good to know Dr. Mayank Vahia is working with Iravatham Mahadevan. I closely follow the work of Iravatham Mahadevan and Asko Parpola on Indus Scrip...

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Yeah, it has to be the on board computer, since the data came online, only after a minute or so self correction already happened.
Thanks juvva.

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Gurus, could someone please elaborate on the course correction happened between 3rd stage and 4th stage phase. That's was some bloody awesome trick pulled by PSLV. After seeing the huge deviation, I almost gave up watching the launch. Also during that period the graph plot went offline because of no...

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Why these loosers, belly achers, whiners, complain only when a nation like India spends money in scientific advancements, but not the crores of rupees spent on Bollywood, cricket, reality shows, other mind numbing entertainments and mad consumerisms. Because, that's the sign of degenerating societies.

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Just around 15 months to develop a mission of this complexity is an achievement of different class.

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The course correction that happened in between was really awesome. A matured job. Good work ISRO.

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YouTube is slow, May be it's related to slow connection.

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Primary deployment over. Congratulations to entire ISRO team!

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Thanks PratikDas. It works.

Also, it seems http://webcast.gov.in/live/ is also back.

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Way to go ISRO. I'm really looking forward to Mangalyaan-MOM prove men are truly from Mars.

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Congratulation ISRO.

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Good luck all the ISRO people!

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Thanks rajanb. It's much of help!

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Exactly, Tiffy has much to offer. As I said few pages earlier, make the two rams clash at each other and drink the blood out of it. The French perfectionism is notoriously famous. Rafale is sexy, more mature and offers three different flavors: single, twin-seater and naval, which are already inducte...

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All this US of A and India strategic partnership is one big flying bat sh*t. Because there is no such partnership in the first place and it's all about Unkil's own vested interest, arm twisting et al. With this $11+ billion deal and much more we are not going to solve Kashmir issue or secure UN Secu...

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^^^ The URL gives away it's identity.

Yakovlev Yak-44: Wiki

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... this is not a dick measuring contest. Sorry OT, but couldn't resist, isn't all (well almost all) human behavior driven by "my .... is bigger than yours ..." :D There is a proverb in Tamil, which is "Murthy sirusu aanaalum kirthi perusu". Meaning, it may be a Murthy of road s...

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Mission successful. Congrats to all.

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PS3 seperation successful. PS4 engine has been ignited successfully. PS4 performance normal.

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DD live streaming: http://webcast.gov.in/live/

PS3 performance normal.

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^^^ Right click on that unseen image and open it in new window/tab. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Dassault_Mirage_G8.jpg Bit tricky. I initially mistook it for the shrimp tailed EF-111A Raven (General Dynamics/Grumman EF-111A Raven), not to be confused with General Dynamics F-11...

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^^^

Italian Piaggio P.180 Avanti.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaggio_P.180_Avanti

TajAir Avanti

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Thanks. Didn't know that.

A perfect example of banana republic.

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What is an F-16 worth.................. frozen chicken

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The art of diplomacy and role-playing of Lord of war.

Reuters's Special report: Weapons and the art of diplomacy

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Shiv, er… there is one small problem. Super-7/Project Sabre II is the basta*d child of Grumman Aerospace Corp. F-5G/F-20 is a souped up Northrop Corp design. Both were different companies till mid 90's. But, as the old Chinese saying goes, everything is possible between unkil, our eastern bhaibhais ...

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^^^ Shiv, lower one walks like a Thundaar, quacks like a Thundaar and flies like a Thundaar. (Thundaar is painted below and the link reveals it's JF-17) But what is the little story? Both fighters look similar except for the engines. Hope F-5G/F-20 hasn't got photoshoped (reengineered with single en...

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chackojoseph wrote:This is for Marten, cause he asked for it.

LCA Tejas trainer

LCA Tejas trainer

Wow... what a beauty!!! The much improved pilot's visibility is very clear from the second photo.

Thanks Chacko ji though I'm not Marten.

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Rafale-M (Is it Rafale-M? Please correct me if I'm wrong) performing touch and go on Yelahanka airbase "deck". RSw_0fb4slQ Not much luck with Janamejaya. Just some crouching and take off. No acrobatics. AYrPz1HZoW4 While taxying, it looks absolutely like a panther 8) crouching and about to...

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i went to the show on the 12th and the herc did not fly that day... And i have not read an account till date which mentions the herc carrying out flight displays... According to Lockheed Martin’s website there were flying displays. And according to another forum member (not sure I can link the foru...

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^^^ Mano sir, When did you go for the air show?? You are really lucky to have caught the Herc in action... Vignesh, the Herc display was on pre-lunch 11th Feb. Lucky... why? Was the Herc not performing on the other days? No Tejas captured jumping over the moon? :-) How i wish too! I did wait but th...

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C-130J "Super" Hercules taxying, taking off, landing and all… demonstrating its amazing STOL capabilities (

at the end when it comes to a grinding halt).

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