The planetary parade, also known as a planetary alignment, will begin with only four planets—Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. It will last through early March.
These missions will require a new generation of heavier launch vehicles with new propulsion systems, which cannot be met by the existing launch pads, says ISRO.
India is now the 4th country, after US, Russia & China, to have developed & tested space docking technology. SpaDeX findings are expected to help India achieve future space goals.
According to ISRO, the SpaDeX mission is a cost-effective technology demonstrator mission for the demonstration of in-space docking using two small spacecraft that was launched by PSLV.
ISRO said satellites were successfully moved within 15m of each other & then closer to 3m before being moved back to safe distance. Docking experiments are scheduled for 7 & 9 January.
Genome India project was launched in 2020, completed in February last year. A total of 10,000 genome samples across diverse sections of Indian society were collected.
Narayanan, currently head of an ISRO centre called Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC), is set to succeed S. Somanath on 14 January & will be in office for next 2 years.
Rocket & spacecraft propulsion expert, V Narayanan joined ISRO in 1984 and has nearly 4 decades of experience. Under him, the team developed C25 Stage, a vital component of GSLV Mk III.
Colleagues, friends recall his contributions to field of nuclear physics & Pokhran nuclear tests. Rajagopala Chidambaram died Saturday at a hospital in Mumbai at the age of 88.
Key SpaDeX experiment planned for 7 January. A successful demonstration will add India to an elite list—US, Russia, EU and China—to have performed docking in space.
Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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