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ISRO Chief, K Sivan to ANI: We've found the location of #VikramLander on lunar surface and orbiter has clicked a thermal image of Lander. But there is no communication yet. We are trying to have contact. It will be communicated soon.

Just leaving it here to appreciate how effective ISRO's checks are and ISRO's success in catching the issue on Chandrayaan 2, not to downplay spaceX capabilities, spaceflight is still a very complicated task: https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/07/15/spacex-points-to-leaky-valve-as-culprit-in-crew-drago...

The great blunder:

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Indian Railways: Railways mulls inviting private firms to run trains on some routes https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/railways-mulls-inviting-private-firms-to-run-trains-on-some-routes/articleshow/69849236.cms To begin with, the railways will experiment by offering two trains to its tourism...

rajsunder wrote: If Soviets could do such a long lasting rovers, why can't we do it in 2019?

Launch capacity. Compare the launch mass of Lunokhod 1 with Chandrayan 2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_1 [5600 KG]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-2 [3800 KG]

1:22:00 onwards, Shekhar Gupta accepting the folly of reporters and secular ecosystem:

W Bengal state elections with Amit Shah as Home Minister would be interesting!

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Another Make in India Success Story: The indigenously made Vande Bharat Express' second rake is ready and is off to New Delhi from Integral Coach Factory in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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Hey, Maharani Pumpkinji looks uncannily like her GM, IGji - with a more masculine look. Must have lost weight. Definitely looks far more PMish than RaGa does. Dangerous opponent: may actually have brains, though why she agreed to get hitched to Einstein Vadraji remains a mystery. But what's the poi...

Rain attenuation or weather attenuation, especially X, Ku, Ka bands does matter. He was actually on the dot . Especially A2G radar modes will be affected and also, A2A interceptors like JF17 with short range radar which look through heavy cloud cover. Clutter, plus range drop. This is correct and I...

It doesn't seem like that voters are undecided or that there is no wave, at least in MP:

Rough voting numbers are in, these will only go up when final tally shows up in next couple of days

Voter turnout till 11 AM Overall: 26.96% Bihar : 20.74% J&K : 6.09% MP : 28.62% RJ : 29.36% UP : 22.96% WB : 33.57% JH : 29.49% Voter turnout till 1 PM Overall : 31.29% Bihar- 24.49% J&K- 6.54% MP- 31.46% Rj- 33.82% UP- 26.53% WB- 39.55% JH- 37.24% Actually its higher: https://eci.gov.in/up...

They have now said that voting holidays are given very specifically for voting and those employees who return without the inked finger will be terminated immediately. That has "lawsuit" written all over it. Imagine the guy that takes holiday to vote...momma falls critically ill the same d...

Original source : https://www.flickr.com/photos/delhidefencereview/ Some more info on Mk1A ASRAAM Self forming and healing Mobile ad hoc network and more https://twitter.com/I30mki/status/1119285580754575360 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D4h_yLjWwAAilWu?format=jpg&name=medium https://pbs.twimg.com...

I think we should take this seriously. +1. Agreed. It’s funny we’re saying that US would never admit to a F-16 loss because they have a conflict of interest, but at the same time we want their SD to issue a statement to back us up. :-? Decide kar lo if they have a conflict of interest or not!! Anon...

Moi interested in the radar that was used for this mission. :mrgreen: BTW, something clearly happened between Balakot & now, for India to signal this capability. Definitely some PRC tricks indicating they would target our defence sats. Tom cooper guy on f16 net forums had a theory that our sate...

If you really want pictures updated every day, you can make an account on planet labs. 14 days trial. Pics are not high resolution but you can get some rough idea.

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Uri SS1 images were released long afterwards. These will be too at an appropriate time after the naysayers have spent their energies. Evey wonder why the India political parties that were so vocal last time are either quite or getting fringe workers/paid jurnos/Full bakis to rake up the muck this t...

F-16? https://twitter.com/AdityaRajKaul/status/1100990200753328128 First image of the Pakistan Fighter Jet F16 wreckage which was shot down by Indian Air Force in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. Commanding Officer of the Pakistan Army’s 7 Northern Light Infantry also visible. Pakistan cannot hide truth f...

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Train 18 to be introduced on M'luru-B'luru route: Goyal

https://www.deccanherald.com/city/train ... 19739.html

“We will introduce it on routes connecting major cities. An indigenously developed automatic signalling system will also be installed on these routes,”

https://twitter.com/SJha1618/status/1098830497520574464?s=19 Kaveri engine project will be closed before a successor is officially unveiled. #IAH https://twitter.com/SJha1618/status/1098830083836407808?s=19 Sources say the Kaveri engine program will be closed before a new project is officially unvei...

First Train 18 service between Delhi to Varanasi, to be known as Vande Bharat Express.
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disha wrote:

mridulmm wrote:^^^ S...L...O...W . . . . C...L...A...P...P...I...N...G

And sir., your point is?

Being speechless at stretching a discussion in non-sensical direction.

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S...L...O...W . . . . C...L...A...P...P...I...N...G

can anyone explain this technology? how do you propel in space using electric power not involving rockets or cold gas? We have a six-tonne satellite in principle. It is possible to be realised using electric propulsion. So we have already started using electric propulsion system. (Even) GSAT-19 (la...

This would have been possible lets say 10 - 15 years ago. Easiest route would have been to encourage one of the existing semiconductor companies to set it up in India. Now a days there are handful of companies which operate fabs and even then none of them might be looking to set up a new fab. If we...

Yagnasri wrote:Did we not have a foundry in Chandigarh which got "burned down" or something like that in 1980s.

I am not sure about it but my guess is it was SCL.

Well the answer lies in foundry utilization vs investment ratio. Newer and newer processes cost a lot. If you can not keep your foundry running all the time, you might as well not recover the investment cost. More and more companies became fabless in last decade and even Intel is allowing its found...

Vayu ji - I think this is not a "pie in the sky" at all. . and some of the major practical benefits may appear in a short time (say 5 years). Modi has personal interest (he launched National Center of Flexible Electronics under Digital India) and there are some very good people leading it...

DON'T MISS: Model of an early iteration from India's Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) program undergoing RCS tests.
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