New Delhi: India has launched its first radar imaging satellite that can deliver crystal clear pictures in all weather conditions. It can even peer through jungle and dense tree cover. RISAT 1, India's heaviest remote sensing satellite, soars into space aboard an extra powerful PSLV XL rocket. K Radhakrishnan, Chairman, ISRO, says, "RISAT took Rs 378 crore to make. This includes research and development costs. The PSLV XL rocket cost...
07:16 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: They call her RISAT 1 - short for Radar Imaging Satellite. She's the first such machine India has built on its own. While most remote sensing satellites need light to snap pictures, RISAT uses microwaves - similar to the ones in your kitchen oven. Just like your camera fires a flash of light, RISAT-1 fires microwaves, which the ground reflects back. A radar inside the satellite uses those...
08:19 AM, Apr 26, 2012
Chennai: A wholly Indian-built spy/surveillance satellite, Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) that can see through clouds and fog and has very high-resolution imaging is slated for launch in April, a senior official of the Indian space agency has said. An official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said thorough tests were being done on the Risat-1. "The Risat-1 is put to thermal vacuum test (a test to check the satellite's...
07:21 PM, Mar 13, 2012
Tokyo: Japan has launched an intelligence-gathering satellite, its second this year. Japan's space agency, JAXA, says the launch Monday was a success and the radar-equipped satellite is functioning properly. Officials refused to provide details of its capabilities. Japanese media reports say it will augment the optical satellites Japan has already launched by providing data of what is happening on the ground at night or through cloud cover. Japan launched its...
09:50 AM, Dec 12, 2011
Madhavan says RISAT-2 is owned by ISRO but is not a "spy satellite". ...
12:41 PM, Apr 20, 2009
Madhavan Nair says RISAT is an observation satellite not a spy. ...
12:32 PM, Apr 20, 2009
G Madhavan Nair says 2009 is going to be the year of fireworks for ISRO. ...
07:42 AM, Apr 20, 2009
The 229-tonne PSLV will blast off from Centre in Srihariko on Monday morning. ...
09:27 PM, Apr 19, 2009
London: Rahul Dravid on Sunday became only the sixth batsman in the history of Test cricket to carry his bat through one innings and then open again after India were asked to follow-on on day four of the fourth Test at The Oval. The previous such instance occured in 1991 and by some coincidence at The Oval itself when West Indies opener Desmond Haynes (75 not out) carried his bat...
11:22 AM, Feb 23, 2008
New Delhi: Team India is not new to permutations and combinations. The run-rate calculations to reach the knockouts in limited-over format has now moved onto a fight to stay in the top four to qualify for the ICC Test Championship. In October 2010, the ICC Board approved the FTP to accommodate a Test league to provide a meaning to all the Test matches. Based on the results, ICC rankings will...
11:54 AM, Feb 21, 2008
Chennai: Under attack for choosing unfit players for the England Test series, selection panel chairman Krishnamachari Srikkanth on Sunday said that batting failure and not fatigue due to excessive cricket was the main reason behind the debacle. Srikkanth refused to buy the line that Indian cricketers play excessive cricket and that has led to fatigue and niggles to Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men during the England Test series which they are...
09:41 AM, Feb 21, 2008
Lahore: Uncertainty still looms large over former captain Shoaib Malik and leg-spinner Danish Kaneria's future ahead of the Pakistan Cricket Board's integrity committee meeting here on Monday. Well placed sources in the PCB told PTI that while Malik has confirmed that he would be appearing before the integrity committee on Monday, the board was still awaiting a response from Kaneria. "Malik has submitted some replies and documents regarding questions over...
09:31 AM, Feb 21, 2008
Birmingham: England captain Andrew Strauss and coach Andy FLower owe their success to India coach Duncan Fletcher, who must take some credit for laying the foundation of the team's resurgence to the top of the Test world. While Fletcher might be immensely disappointed at India's pathetic performance in the three Tests but the former Zimbabwe captain can feel happy about the team that he once coached for eight years 1999-2007,...
08:27 AM, Feb 21, 2008
Birmingham: Sourav Ganguly was left 'terrified' as the ongoing public disorder here spilled over outside his hotel on Tuesday evening. Ganguly experienced the riots while checking into his hotel soon after landing at London's Heathrow Airport. I was left terrified and frightened. I have never experienced something like that in my life. After the incident, I promised myself never to get out of the room in the evenings in the ...
09:59 AM, Feb 20, 2008
RISAT will help India keep a watch on terror camps. Fireworks ahead: ISRO ...
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