ISRO chairman K Sivan said they are planning to launch Aditya-L1 to study the Sun's corona, and are also considering an interplanetary mission to Venus.
The Rs 978 crore mission, which was rescheduled after scientists corrected a glitch in the rocket, will be launched at 2:43 pm from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
While ISRO has always been a star performer, has anyone noticed that while it churns out tag lines like “billion dreams” in one of its endeavors, very little of its achievements are witnessed in daily popular science discussions? Let me give an example, remember “blue marble” pic of Earth …..its NASA in everyday everybody imagination for time immemorial ! Any space photographs ….attribute it to NASA mostly, what about ISRO? ISRO’s contributions may be immense, but it is not to accessible for lesser mortals like us. Make it accessible, make toys or scaled down versions of the rockets, let the kids play, put it in school how India’s 1st moon mission found water by using a NASA scanner, why space collaboration among countries work and why it is needed ?……..when you involve the guy in the street, you may just use billion dreams as a force multiplier to your already tremendous achievements.
Jai Hind !
Excellent suggestion. Outreach through education, entertainment (documentaries for DD) and merchandising are as important for a scientific enterprises like ISRO as the serious business of engineering, outsourcing and data gathering. It is time to learn a few things from the West on this.
While ISRO has always been a star performer, has anyone noticed that while it churns out tag lines like “billion dreams” in one of its endeavors, very little of its achievements are witnessed in daily popular science discussions? Let me give an example, remember “blue marble” pic of Earth …..its NASA in everyday everybody imagination for time immemorial ! Any space photographs ….attribute it to NASA mostly, what about ISRO? ISRO’s contributions may be immense, but it is not to accessible for lesser mortals like us. Make it accessible, make toys or scaled down versions of the rockets, let the kids play, put it in school how India’s 1st moon mission found water by using a NASA scanner, why space collaboration among countries work and why it is needed ?……..when you involve the guy in the street, you may just use billion dreams as a force multiplier to your already tremendous achievements.
Jai Hind !
Excellent suggestion. Outreach through education, entertainment (documentaries for DD) and merchandising are as important for a scientific enterprises like ISRO as the serious business of engineering, outsourcing and data gathering. It is time to learn a few things from the West on this.