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India's Moon Mission Likely To Be Put Off To June Bangalore, India (PTI) Feb 15, 2008 
Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to Moon, scheduled to be launched in April, is likely to be postponed to June, an Indian Space Research Organisation official said on Tuesday. The much-awaited mission was originally scheduled to be held on April nine or April 23 from India's spaceport of Sriharikota. "Now, it looks doubtful in April. We are working on a (different) PSLV mission ... read more
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Boeing And Tata Industries Announce India Joint Venture
Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 15, 2008Boeing and Tata Industries Limited of India have agreed on a plan to form a joint-venture company that will initially include more than US$500 million of defense-related aerospace component work in India for export to Boeing and its international customers. Under the memorandum of agreement signed by Boeing and Tata, it is contemplated that the joint-venture company will be established by ... more Northrop Grumman Showcases Key Capabilities At India's DefExpo 2008 
London, UK (SPX) Feb 11, 2008Northrop Grumman will highlight its range of key capabilities including airborne early warning and control systems, fire control radars, unmanned aerial vehicles, ships and naval systems at the DefExpo India 2008 exhibition and conference. The exhibition and conference will take place at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi from 16-19 February. Northrop Grumman will be exhibiting at stand number 837-N3. ... more Israel Set To Use Indian Rockets To Launch Spy Satellites 
New Delhi (RIA Novosti) Feb 08, 2008Israel will continue using Indian carrier rockets to launch its military satellites into space despite objections from Iran, The Indian Express quoted an Israeli source as saying on Thursday. "Since we have limited capacity to launch rockets, we are looking for partners in this regard, and India is a natural partner since we have such good relations," a senior Israeli diplomat said. Israel ... more Fairchild Semiconductor Selects Pune, India For Research And Development Center 
San Jose CA (SPX) Feb 07, 2008Fairchild Semiconductor has opened a design center in Pune, India. This research and design (R and D) center will be responsible for designing and developing the company's new generation of power MOSFETs and IGBT technology to support popular applications such as solar inverters, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), automotive, lighting and ballast applications. The Indian R and D design ... more Duke Energy's Advanced Clean Coal-Fueled Power Plants Approved 
Alexandria VA (SPX) Feb 07, 2008Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC) released a statement supporting the permitting of two Duke Energy coal-fueled power plants, the Cliffside Steam Station in North Carolina and the Edwardsport Station in Indiana. Both plants will incorporate advanced technologies to help reduce air emissions while providing critical electricity generation for both regions. The approval of both th ... more |
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New Delhi, India (SPX) Jan 29, 2008Savi Technology, a Lockheed Martin company, and India-based AVAANA have entered into a strategic partnership for active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)-based supply chain solutions, products and services to prospective government and commercial customers in India. The partners announced that they have signed an exclusive teaming and marketing agreement focused on markets in India. ... more Cell Phone Sensors Detect Radiation To Thwart Nuclear Terrorism 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 23, 2008Researchers at Purdue University are working with the state of Indiana to develop a system that would use a network of cell phones to detect and track radiation to help prevent terrorist attacks with radiological "dirty bombs" and nuclear weapons. Such a system could blanket the nation with millions of cell phones equipped with radiation sensors able to detect even light residues of radioactive ... more Antrix Launches Israeli Satellite Using Commercial PSLV Rocket
Bangalore, India (SPX) Jan 22, 2008The Indian Space Research Organization's Antrix Corporation has successfully launched an Israeli spy satellite using its second full-scale commercial mission of the PSLV launcher. The PSLV-C10 blasted off from the First Launch Pad (FLP) at the SDSC SHAR spaceport at 09:15 Hrs with the ignition of the first stage. This was the 25th Satellite Launch Mission from SDSC, SHAR. The launch ... more NASA Tsunami Research Makes Waves In Science Community 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2008A wave of new NASA research on tsunamis has yielded an innovative method to improve existing tsunami warning systems, and a potentially groundbreaking new theory on the source of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. In one study, published last fall in Geophysical Research Letters, researcher Y. Tony Song of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., demonstrated that real-time ... more |
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West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 11, 2008Purdue University researchers are collaborating with Chrysler LLC in a project to use poplar trees to eliminate pollutants from a contaminated site in north-central Indiana. The researchers plan to plant transgenic poplars at the site, a former oil storage facility near Kokomo, Ind., this summer. In a laboratory setting, the transgenic trees have been shown to be capable of absorbing trichloroet ... more Israeli Spy Satellite Launch Likely In First Quarter 
Visakhapatnam, India (PTI) Jan 07, 2008The much-delayed launch of an Israeli spy satellite by an Indian rocket is expected to take place in the first quarter of this year, a senior Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) official said here on Saturday. The military satellite TechSAR will be put in orbit by the ISRO's workhorse rocket, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota. ... more ISRO Saw String Of Successes In 2007 
New Delhi, India (PTI) Jan 03, 2008In the year gone by, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) achieved self-reliance in launch vehicle technology with the successful ground testing of the Cryogenic Upper Stage, a key component in putting heavier payloads in orbit. Capping a string of successes in 2007 in space research, India is poised to take a giant leap forward in the new year with the launch of its maiden moon mission Ch ... more ISRO To Launch Carto-2A Satellite In January 2008 
Hyderabad, India (PTI) Dec 28, 2007ISRO will launch Carto-2A satellite which has Cartography applications including remote sensing, ground water development etc and a resolution of one meter, by end of January 2008 or first week of February, according to RK Rajangam, deputy director, ISRO. Talking to PTI on the sidelines of the launch of India's first students chapter of Astronautical Society of India, he said any object wanting ... more
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