It really sucks. Whats up with the font? who uses a cursive style font on a Major website like that. I'm really frustrated





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BANGALORE: India has completed the design of Chandrayaan-2, its next mission to the moon -- this time in collaboration with Russia -- that would have a lander and rover which can collect samples of the lunar soil and analyse them and send back the data.
Looks like they gave the work to some undergrads who came to work as summer interns.prataparudra wrote:Isro redesigned its home page.
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It's atleast better than other GOI websites. I think it's on par with DRDO website. ISRO should understand that more interactive websites with graphics and 3D animations will attract more attention, especially among the younger generation. ISRO should atleast have a website on par with ESA. Even the Chinese website is full of illustrations and 3D animations of future missions!AmitR wrote:Looks like they gave the work to some undergrads who came to work as summer interns.prataparudra wrote:Isro redesigned its home page.
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Pay peanuts get monkeys.
August 19th, 2009
LRO, Chandrayaan-1 Team Up For Unique Search for Water Ice
Written by Nancy Atkinson
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and India's Chandrayaan-1 will team up on August 20 to perform a Bi-Static radar experiment to search for water ice in a crater on the Moon's north pole. Both spacecraft will be in close proximity approximately 200 km above the lunar surface, and both are equipped with radar instruments. The two instruments will look at the same location from different angles, with Chandrayaan-1's radar transmitting a signal which will be reflected off the interior of Erlanger crater, and then be picked up by LRO. Scientists will compare the signal that bounces straight back to Chandrayaan with the signal that bounces at a slight angle to LRO to garner unique information, particularly about any water ice that may be present inside the crater. ………………………..
Universe Today
Coimbatore, Aug 25 (ANI0: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch Oceansat-2, a unique integrated satellite to track marine life and identify potential fishing zones in September.
This was disclosed by Y V N Krishnamurthy, Director of ISRO's Regional Remote Sensing Service Centre here on Monday.
The integration of the satellite, designed to identify potential fishing zones, assists in forecasting marine trends and coastal zone studies will also provide inputs for weather forecasting and climate studies.
Krishnamurthy said that all pre-launch tests on the functional aspects of the satellite have been successfully completed.
"We are launching a satellite called Oceansat-2 based on the ocean colour and the wind vectors. This scatterometer, which gives us, the wind vectors will provide information on where the fish potential zones are and how these are moving. In a dynamic situation also, the fishermen can get the advisories from the remote sensing information," he added.
Oceansat-2 would blast off on board India's indigenous workhorse, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) at Sriharikota located on the Indian east coast.
This satellite will be an in-orbit replacement to Oceansat-1, which was launched by ISRO in May 1999 to study physical and biological aspects of oceanography.
Oceansat-2 would carry an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) and a Ku-band pencil beam Scatterometer - for the first time, besides a Radio Occultation Sounder for Atmospheric Studies (ROSA). (ANI)
note:I think the term reactor used here is misleading.Adapting a chemical process they originally created to extract metal, the Cambridge team has designed a reactor that strips the oxygen from the metal oxides found in moon rocks. Essentially a giant electrode sitting in a vat of melted salt, the reactor creates an electric current that chemically breaks the oxygen off of the metal, and frees it into the atmosphere.
According to the scientists, three ten foot tall reactors working on three tons of moon rocks could produce a cubic ton of oxygen over the course of a year. Additionally, the reactor doesn't require much more electricity than a hot water heater, so it won't eat up the limited energy of the potential moon base.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday suggested that the “Space Vision,” being developed for the country up to the year 2025, should “spell out not only our expansion plans but also the new frontiers of technology that we wish to master and cover.”
“Exploring the new frontiers of space technology aimed at low cost access to space, development of heavy lift boosters to launch heavier satellites, realising high power and high bandwidth communication satellites and remote sensing satellites with all weather capability are some of these challenges.”
Drevin wrote: note:I think the term reactor used here is misleading.
The term reactor is not misleading, you are not fully informed. Read this and get enlightened.Adapting a chemical process they originally created to extract metal, the Cambridge team has designed a reactor that strips the oxygen from the metal oxides found in moon rocks.
CY-1 sure ended in a tragic and unfortunate way but in no was the whole mission a tragedy , especially one which completed most of it's objectives.narayana wrote:Mars mission by 2013-2015, says ISRO
are we capable of handling 2 major projects in same timeline?,chandrayaan-2 is also slated for 2013.or are we becoming too ambitious or want to cover up the tragedy of chandrayaan-1 with a new hope.
The Vikas engine is expected to have burn time of 240 seconds for a loading of 60ton fuel. Since we have only 55 ton fuel for each engine in L110, the burn time would be 220 seconds.KrishG wrote:I was just going through GSLV-Mk III numbers and found out something confusing.
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/media/Aer ... 3.JPG.html
The ISRO poster says that the bun time of S200 is around 140 seconds while some of the earlier estimates put it at around 110 seconds. The L110burn time is saud to be 200 seconds while I expected 240 seconds and ISRO has previously tested it to 240 seconds and stated that it was it's full burn time.
from the article:narayana wrote:Mars mission by 2013-2015, says ISRO
are we capable of handling 2 major projects in same timeline?,chandrayaan-2 is also slated for 2013,or are we becoming too ambitious or want to overcome the tragedy of chandrayaan-1 with a new hope.and also our manned space mission is also slated for 2015...
How can I submit a proposal idea, or get others to submit it?Mars mission by 2013-2015, says ISRO
PTI 31 August 2009, 11:30am IST
PANAJI: India's mission to Mars will take place between 2013-2015, Indian Space Research Organisation chief G Madhavan Nair said on Monday.
"We have given a call for proposal to different scientific communities. Depending on the type of experiments they propose, we will be able to plan the mission," he said.
The mission is at conceptual stage and will be taken up after Chandrayaan-2, Nair said.
Rakesh Sharma was the only Indian citizen (not dual) to go into space, others are irrelevant.Sanjay M wrote:Why can't India also develop a space-station on the cheap, by simply creating a large high-altitude balloon platform floating very high in the sky in "near space" conditions, on which it could mount telescopes, or equipment it wants to test, or even have personnel live, in order to simulate all the conditions of space except for weightlessness. It could even be used to train astronauts, and test their endurance in living in a constrained environment.
Other than actual rocket-borne space missions, what's the highest Indians have ever been?
Also, there have only been a few Indians in space - what was the longest duration by one of them?
No one is irrelevantKrishG wrote: Rakesh Sharma was the only Indian citizen (not dual) to go into space, others are irrelevant.
I have always wondered how far up the Indian pilots would have taken the Mig-25 given its abilities.Sanjay M wrote:Why can't India also develop a space-station on the cheap, by simply creating a large high-altitude balloon platform floating very high in the sky in "near space" conditions, on which it could mount telescopes, or equipment it wants to test, or even have personnel live, in order to simulate all the conditions of space except for weightlessness. It could even be used to train astronauts, and test their endurance in living in a constrained environment.
Other than actual rocket-borne space missions, what's the highest Indians have ever been?
Also, there have only been a few Indians in space - what was the longest duration by one of them?
Rakesh Sharma's voyage was part of a strategic deal between India and the USSR. He went aboard the Salyut-7 as an Indian while others didn't.Raveen wrote:No one is irrelevantKrishG wrote: Rakesh Sharma was the only Indian citizen (not dual) to go into space, others are irrelevant.
Pakis count the number of muslims in space, we cant even count the number of dual citizens?
Sir, no one and nothing is irrelevant, including your and my opinion...just a thought
The Foxbats had the capability of flying upto 80,000 feet which is about 25 km. The Kármán line, which is the boundary between atmosphere and space is at 100 km from the earth's surface.Yogi_G wrote:I have always wondered how far up the Indian pilots would have taken the Mig-25 given its abilities.Sanjay M wrote:Why can't India also develop a space-station on the cheap, by simply creating a large high-altitude balloon platform floating very high in the sky in "near space" conditions, on which it could mount telescopes, or equipment it wants to test, or even have personnel live, in order to simulate all the conditions of space except for weightlessness. It could even be used to train astronauts, and test their endurance in living in a constrained environment.
Other than actual rocket-borne space missions, what's the highest Indians have ever been?
Also, there have only been a few Indians in space - what was the longest duration by one of them?
“It proves beyond doubt the magma ocean hypothesis. There is no other way this massive rock type could be formed,” said Carle Pieters, science manager at the NASA-supported spectroscopy facility at Brown University in the U.S.
s. Pieters also said that the Chandrayaan-1 mission, which was abandoned after communication was lost with the satellite, had thrown up a couple of surprise findings, which included identification of a new rock type on the moon.