Kuala Lumpur: European air safety officials are preparing to extend checks for Airbus A380 wing cracks to the entire superjumbo fleet, sources close to the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. The decision to proceed with a gradual inspection of all 68 A380s in service will refocus attention on flaws recently identified in flagship jets at both Airbus and Boeing. Both aircraft makers maintain that their newest jets remain safe to...
05:08 PM, Feb 08, 2012
A Bhaskar Narayana, Ex-ISRO Scientific Secretary, said that the findings are committee's own conclusions. ...
03:36 PM, Feb 05, 2012
New Delhi: Former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G Madhavan Nair and three other scientists who were primarily behind the Antrix-Devas deal were indicted on Saturday night. ISRO on Saturday night released details of high powered review committee on Antrix-Devas deal. Some of the conclusions and recommendations of the committee are that there were serious lapses of judgement by several officials; in some case it even violated several norms...
01:31 AM, Feb 05, 2012
Bangalore: Former ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking a withdrawal of the ban on him and three other colleagues over the controversial Antrix-Devas deal. Nair wrote in his letter that the ban targeting him and the other three scientists was regretable. The former ISRO chief asked the PM to explain what the scientists had done wrong, why there had been no...
04:10 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: The government has showed signs of blinking in the stand-off with former ISRO scientists. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the government will speak to Madhavan Nair and the other 3 former ISRO scientists soon. The government is in fact expected to speak to the banned scientists to get their version. Sources say an immediate revocation of the decision to ban the scientists from government jobs may not happen...
08:21 AM, Jan 30, 2012
Bangalore: Former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair on Wednesday lashed out at the Prime Ministers Office for its order barring him and three of his colleagues from holding government posts for their alleged involvement in the controversial Antrix-Devas S-band spectrum deal. Nair did not spare his successor, K Radhakrishnan, either. "This is a clear attempt to tarnish our images and I can see the personal agenda of current Chairman Radhakrishnan...
08:50 PM, Jan 25, 2012
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has stood by its ban on former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G Madhavan Nair, barring him from government jobs. V Narayanasamy, MoS in the PMO, said, "It was a decision taken by the committee on the basis of the report... It was in the best wisdom of the government. The government has the right to take these decisions." ...
08:12 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Moscow: A Russian space probe designed to boost the nation's pride on a bold mission to a moon of Mars came down in flames today, showering fragments into the south Pacific west of Chile's coast, officials said. Pieces from the Phobos-Ground, which had become stuck in Earth's orbit, landed in water 1,250 kilometers (775 miles) west of Wellington Island in Chile's south, the Russian military Air and Space Defense Forces...
10:04 AM, Jan 16, 2012
Mumbai: With every Mumbai marathon, now a fixture on the city's calendar and in its ninth year running (pun intended) come new twists and turns, some transformations and tweaks as each race year is a learning experience, both for organizers and runners. One remembers nine years ago, the marathon was held in February where Mumbai's merciless heat saw runners wilting away before they could reach the finish line. Then, through...
01:32 PM, Jan 11, 2012
Coimbatore: With the air version of BrahMos missile likely to be inducted in IAF within a year, work has started to develop BrahMos 2, the fastest hypersonic missile in the world, which would take final shape in five years. While the BrahMos missile has the speed of Mach 3 (speed of sound) moving at one km per second, the Hypersonic missile would achieve a speed of Mach 6 to Mach...
03:19 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Melbourne: In yet another mid air incident, seven passengers of a Sydney-bound Qantas airlines, from London, reportedly suffered injuries after it was hit by severe turbulence. Qantas flight (QF32) departed London on Friday night and was three hours out of Singapore on Saturday morning when it was hit by turbulence caused by bad storms in the Indian airspace, a Qantas spokeswoman was quoted as saying in media reports in Melbourne....
08:49 AM, Jan 09, 2012
New Delhi: Hyundai Motor India Thursday unveiled its concept multipurpose vehicle (MPV) - Hexa Space - at the 11th edition of Auto Expo here and said it expects single-digit growth in the Indian car industry in 2012. "We are showing our new concept MPV Hexa Space for the first time. It is too early to say when it could come in the market but it will take three to four...
02:29 PM, Jan 05, 2012
New Delhi: Indian computer security analysts have detected and alerted internet users against "malicious spam mails" in the name of the dead North Korean leader Kim Jong-II leading to hacking and crashing of vulnerable e-mails. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), country's national agency to respond to computer security incidents, has found the malware virus streaming into the Indian cyberspace. "It has been observed that a spam campaign in...
11:55 AM, Jan 03, 2012
Washington: Aimed at unlocking the mysteries of the Moon, the first of the two NASA aircraft entered the lunar orbit, the American space agency has said. NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-A spacecraft successfully completed its planned main engine burn and began orbiting the Moon on Saturday. A signal emitted by the probe indicated that it was functioning properly and in place, according to officials at NASA's Jet Propulsion...
10:45 AM, Jan 01, 2012
Beijing: Gearing up to land a rover on moon and send manned spaceflights to built space station, China on Thursday said it will push forward its exploration of planets, asteroids and solar system in order to achieve self sufficiency. China will launch lunar mission to land a rover on moon for carrying out a survey of its surface in the next five years and conduct studies for a human lunar...
12:49 PM, Dec 30, 2011
Seattle: Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen is planning to build a spaceship that could replace the Space Shuttle and put paying passengers into orbit this decade. Lifelong space enthusiast Allen is hoping to launch unmanned rockets from a massive flying carrier plane to put government and commercial satellites into space and eventually evolve to human space missions. The initiative comes only months after the United States retired the Space Shuttle...
11:09 AM, Dec 14, 2011
New Delhi: In the latest development with regard to the investigations into the Commonwealth Games scam, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has ordered a preliminary enquiry against Spaceage, a firm that supplied bulbs for the Games at three times the original cost. The firm was declared qualified after making a plea before Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Spaceage then went on to supply low cost imported luminaries of Saudi...
06:19 PM, Dec 12, 2011
Houston: US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced the launch date for the first test flight of a commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission, which will test a vehicle intended to carry cargo and eventually crew to orbit represents an important step for the burgeoning private space industry, experts say. SpaceX is going to send its unmanned space capsule Dragon to rendezvous...
07:50 AM, Dec 12, 2011
Los Angeles: DreamWorks and Reliance Entertainment's social drama 'The Help', a universal story about the ability to create change, is scheduled to come out Nov 25. Directed by debutant Tate Taylor, 'The Help' is a big screen adaptation of novelist Kathryn Stockett's book of the same name. Set in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s, 'The Help' chronicles the relationship between three different extraordinary women who build an unlikely friendship around...
12:27 PM, Nov 15, 2011
