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In my opinion ISRO is optimising for costs rather than payload as they probably have a curve where it makes more sense to do so given the falling prices for payload in the launch market. SpaceX uses maraging steel as well. Whatever it is, we have to think of booster reuse sooner than later to reduc...

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Yeah, no need to speculate, but we can analyze perhaps. IMO, if there was a power struggle or factional feud, that should have happened during the meeting at Beidaihe several weeks before the 20th Congress when the new positions and inductees would have been discussed among the very top. We remember...

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Way back when Avinash Chander was DRDO Chief, there was a project dubbed XR-SAM. There were two variants of XR-SAM then talked about. One with 250 km range another with 400 km range. XR-SAM could engage aircraft, cruise missiles, UAVs/Drones and even hostile ballistic targets. XR-SAM was supposed to...

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^ The photo was captured using a Polish Telescope.

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Qin Gang has been replaced by Wang Yi as the foreign minister, he has been missing for a month, supposedly health reasons There are also other rumours within China such as an affair, and having an out-of-wedlock child both contrary to Confucian values, which XJP is trying to instil. In other words,...

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Mystery object that washed up on Australian coast is 'upper-stage engine from Indian rocket' - AP/ToI Authorities in Canberra are currently investigating whether a cylindrical object, resembling a small car, that washed up on a remote Australian beach is space debris from a foreign rocket. The disc...

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Chandrayaan-3 a shot in the arm for Gaganyaan-1 - ToI The perfect launch of Chandrayaan-3 on Friday has come as a shot in the arm for Gaganyaan-1 . For, a modified version of the same rocket — LVM-3 — will be used for India’s maiden manned mission. “LVM-3 has injected Chandrayaan-3 into the precise...

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Very precise orbit

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Live streaming by ISRO starts at 2PM IST
url: https://www.isro.gov.in/Chandrayaan3_Mi ... aming.html

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Chandrayaan-3 launch today, landing expected at 5.47pm August 23 - ToI If all goes as per plan, Chandrayaan-3 lander Vikram will touch down on the lunar surface at 5.47pm on August 23, after a 40-day journey, at least two people part of the mission confirmed to TOI. Final landing planned on August ...

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g.sarkar wrote: ↑13 Jul 2023 08:18 PM’s France visit will broaden the horizon of India-France relations

The article misses out the participation of ISRO engineers in large numbers with CNES's Viking liquid propulsion motor which led to the fabrication of Vikas engine later.

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I am waiting for news on two things: Trishna satellite and the setting up of a Navic navigation reference station in France. It is about two years since these announcements were made.

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ramana wrote: ↑14 Jul 2023 05:45 Chindu has become totally anti-national. It will meet its nemesis soon hopefully.

True. Even Malini Parthasarathy could not take it anymore from N.Ram after S.Gurumurthy exposed The Hindu in the 'sengol' incident and N.Ram persisted with his fraudulent line. She has since resigned. OT here.

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'No equivalent to air-launched BrahMos in the world': BrahMos CEO https://www.theweek.in/theweek/current/2023/07/08/brahmos-aerospace-ceo-and-md-atul-dinkar-rane-interview.html 16 July 2023 Russia wants the air launch Brahmos. How ironical !! Russia wanted an arm and a leg for the Su-30 fuselage mo...

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I will use a different argument, disha. China's space program has been for three major reasons: exploitation of space resources for self; weaponization of space; and, prestige. All these come from that urge to be the 'Middle Kingdom'. So, it took a particular trajectory. Secondly, of course, wealth ...

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ISRO Unveils Vital Facilities for Solid Motor Advancement - ISRO Today, at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC-SHAR), a group of vital facilities essential for the enhancement of solid motor realization were inaugurated by Shri Somanath S., Chairman, ISRO/Secretary, Department of Space. Shri A. Ra...

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Here I submit XJP is reverting to the classical Chinese authoritarian System aka Confucian System when he says Marxism with Sinic characteristics. Yes, the traditional system of governance in Sina had been dynastic authoritarianism until every time the Heavens suddenly decided one dynasty had had e...

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Looking at the timing, when a response is due from Pak, and the govts claims on POK, do you think the govt might link the two issues. i.e. a quid pro quo whereby good behaviour by Pak makes the water flow smoothly ?. Guddu ji, Pakistan and 'good behaviour'? As usual, the clever-by-half TSP is putti...

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cheen threw the PCA's order into dustbin when it ruled against cheen over the “south china sea" issue why would India be so foolish so as to follow the PCA's order on the IWT when the very process followed by the PCA is illegal While a comparison with the Chinese case under ITLOS PCA may be te...

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Chandrayaan-3 - NASA Description Chandrayaan 3 is an ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) mission with the primary objective of putting a lander and rover in the highlands near the south pole of the Moon in the August 2023 timeframe and demonstrating end-to-end landing and roving capabilities....

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ISRO to transfer SSLV to private sector - ET The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will soon transfer its Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) to the private sector, after conducting two development flights of the rocket that seeks to provide on-demand services to put satellites weighing u...

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Defence ministry signs contract with HAL for Dornier Aircraft worth Rs 458 cr - ET The defence ministry on Friday signed a contract with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for procurement of two Dornier Aircraft for Indian Coast Guard (ICG) at an overall cost of Rs 458 crore. "The addition wi...

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Chandrayaan-3 integrated with launch vehicle - ToI In a major milestone, Isro on Wedneaday said it has integrated the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft with the launch vehicle — GSLV-Mk3 or LVM3. The space agency is looking at a mid-July launch (between July 12 and 19) window for India's third lunar mission...

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The ISRO press release on the test. There are good pictures of the test stand et al.

First hot test of the Semi-cryogenic engine conducted at IPRC, Mahendragiri

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ISRO terminates semi-cryogenic engine test after sudden spike in turbine pressure and speed - Economic Times The Indian Space Research Organisation terminated the first hot test on an intermediate configuration of the semi-cryogenic engine following an unanticipated spike in the turbine pressure an...

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More lifting-power for Indian rockets, ISRO test fires India's most powerful rocket engine - WION News In a major technological breakthrough that will eventually add more lifting-power to Indian rockets, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully test fired its most powerful-yet roc...

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ramana, Mao had used the same 'non-violent means' against the Russians (incidentally) in 1969 at Ussuri before a bigger clash broke out and more 'violent means' were employed by the Russians who flattened the Chinese. For other reasons, they eventually decided to settle the border issue with the Chi...

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Pratyush wrote:I distinctly remember the Hindu recieving a press award from Xi Jinping, during his last visit to India in 2019.

I do not recall anything like that. The then Chinese Ambassador Sun Wei-Dong visited the office of The Hindu last year

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sabrina is the “Great-Great grand-daughter of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan Sir Syed Ahmed Khan was no ordinary Islamic scholar but a bigoted and radical cleric, baying for the blood of Hindus Aha, now the connections are falling into place. Among the Muslim delegation that called on Lord Minto was the found...

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Blue Origin keen on using LVM3 for commercial space activities - ToI Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is keen on using India’s GSLV-Mk3 or LVM-3 as a crew capsule to service its Orbital Reef, a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) space station being designed for commercial space activities and tourism uses, Isro chairman...

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Bakistan FM was very firm on no new taxes last week Meanwhile ishaq “I know how to deal with IMF” dar has caved in, proposed raising taxes further. Scrapped tax amnesty. All in last ditch effort to save IMF deal. This time around it might work, they’ve agreed to most IMF demands. The program ends o...

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Manish_P wrote:I was expecting this to come from a paki anal-cyst but this guy is a Brit

Why do you distinguish between them both?

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Astra Mk2 user trials are finished as per Alpha Defence on you tube. I am not even sure if development trials are over for Astra Mk. II. In December 2020, it was announced by DRDO officials that Astra Mk. II would be tested by May, 2022. In October 2022, the IAF released a video with Astra Mk.II be...

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India’s next major defence export | Indonesia will buy Brahmos missile - WION India-based defence company BrahMos Aerospace expects to close a deal this year to sell Indonesia supersonic cruise missiles worth at least $200 million, as it looks to expand its presence in Southeast Asia. BrahMos Aeros...

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https://twitter.com/DRDO_India/status/1673734292655030279 200th flight of TAPAS UAV was demonstrated to the Tri services team for the first time at ATR chitradurga on 27th June 2023. Tri services team appreciated the indigenous efforts for development of UAV. TAPAS is now ready for user evaluation ...

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It is equally a right of common folks to question a journalist, everybody has rights. What has democracy got to do with criticism against this lady's loaded question by those who think that she is biased? This Pakistani lady was specifically chosen by the WH to needle Indians. This is the kind of pr...

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India Joins the Artemis Accords - Ajay Lele, The Space Review Collaboration in space between India and the United States has some six decades of history. It is often mentioned as collaboration between two powers who share values like vibrant democracies and open society. The Indian space program wa...

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I got the same impression too.

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From the India-US Joint Statement at the end of PM Modi's State Visit: President Biden and Prime Minister Modi recommitted themselves to empowering the Quad as a partnership for global good. The two leaders welcomed the progress made at the Hiroshima Summit last month among the four maritime democra...

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ramana wrote:Is this the same as Akash-S?

ramana, yes. Akash-1S was the technology demonstrator to upgrade the existing Akash- Mk.1 stock with an indigenous RF seeker. AFAK, Akash-1S was renamed as Akash-1P and in July 2020 (the Ladakh faceoff with China timeframe) when it was deployed there.

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