Bangalore: While the creations of Mayilsamy Annadurai, ISRO's programme director and chief problem solver for remote sensing satellites like the RISAT 1, always soar through the skies, his own background is a lot more humble. Annadurai has had a hand in almost every remote sensing satellite made at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). One of India's foremost scientists, he began his studies in the humblest of places. "Till the...
09:40 AM, Apr 26, 2012
Kochi: The film 'Chandrayaan', based on India's first mission to the moon, will hit the theatres after Onam. The movie, directed by Santhosh George Kulangara, which was screened at Savitha theatre on Saturday, is possibly the first science fiction movie in Kerala. Mylswamy Annadurai, project director of Chandrayaan-1 and Chandrayaan 2, was also present for the screening. George Kulangara said, "There have been science fiction movies such as Appollo at...
03:30 AM, Sep 08, 2011
New Delhi: With the US lifting sanctions on ISRO, a top NASA laboratory has approached the Indian space agency with a proposal to collaborate for a moon mission aimed at getting back a kilogram of rocks from the lunar surface. The iconic Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which has sent missions to Mars and Venus, wants ISRO to put a satellite around the moon which will be a link between its...
10:10 PM, Feb 13, 2011
New Delhi: India's space programme suffered a serious setback on Saturday evening when a Communication Satellite launched from Sriharikota exploded mid-air. It was the second satellite failure in six months. Scientists are divided, but the bigger worry is: What will happen to India's moon mission? The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle was launched with high hopes by the ISRO scientists. However, 47 seconds later hope turned into horror as the onboard...
02:15 PM, Dec 26, 2010
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Tucked away somewhere in the middle of the joint statement released by India and the US after President Obama's visit, is a small paragraph. It ...
01:09 PM, Nov 16, 2010
Bangalore: Chandrayaan-2, the proposed second Indian mission to moon, would undertake "extremely good" experiments and try out new technologies but accommodating foreign payloads on board does not appear to be a possibility at this stage. The first edition of the moon odyssey had six foreign payloads and five Indian ones on board but heavy orbiter (satellite) and lander weight this time has put constraints on the Indian Space Research Organisation...
04:17 PM, Sep 07, 2010
On April 15, ISRO will launch an advanced communication satellite. ...
10:30 AM, Apr 08, 2010
NASA's Mini-SAR found more than 40 small craters with water ice. ...
02:25 PM, Mar 02, 2010
Stewart Nozette has been arrested by FBI on charges of spying for Israel. ...
09:04 AM, Oct 21, 2009
Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite will bomb the moon. ...
11:10 PM, Oct 08, 2009
ISRO chief says world can now dream of colonising moon. ...
01:16 AM, Sep 26, 2009
Chandrayaan-1 has helped give the world a great discovery. ...
09:35 PM, Sep 25, 2009
A historic discovery is opening gateways for a possible colonisation of the moon. ...
06:40 PM, Sep 25, 2009
India's next lunar mission will have more instruments to study moon. ...
03:18 PM, Sep 25, 2009
ISRO chief says Chandrayaan-1 was a 110 per cent success. ...
12:25 PM, Sep 25, 2009
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