World's most powerful Earth observation satellite will produce high-res images & data on various aspects of globe, including info to predict landslides, volcanoes, floods, earthquakes.
NISAR satellite, a groundbreaking NASA-ISRO collaboration, launches July 30 from Sriharikota. This Earth observation mission will scan the planet every 12 days using advanced SAR technology.
The SNIFS sounding rocket launched on 18 July is an attempt to study the Sun's chromosphere, where the temperature, pressure & magnetic field of the Sun undergoes ‘dramatic changes’.
Using hashtag 'ISROfixyourPR', the Indian science community on X attempts to lift the veil off ISRO's operations, with memes, anecdotes & a list of its not-so-public successes.
The quote, part of a conversation between Group Captain Shukla and PM Modi, appears in EVS book ‘Our Wondrous World’. Shukla said, ‘We’re all part of humanity, and earth is our one home.’
More than a decade in the making, NISAR will lift off from Sriharikota on 30 July. It was built jointly by ISRO and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and assembled in India.
After a stay of nearly 20 days in the International Space Station (ISS), the Axiom-4 crew, including India’s Shubhanshu Shukla, has returned to Earth.
Embarking...
Undocking will begin at around 4:15 pm IST with splashdown off the coast of California at around 3 pm IST Tuesday. The whole process will be telecast by NASA.
Through film, textile, scent, sound, and gesture, spectators are invited to descend into an immersive environment where inherited knowledge seeps through material and form.
November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.
Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
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