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India's first lunar mission may have failed as a result of overheating, a national daily reported on Monday. Chandrayaan-1 was launched in October 2008 and its main mission was conducting geological mapping of the Moon's surface aimed at producing a complete map of the chemical characteristics and 3-D topography. Chandrayaan means Moon Craft in Sanskrit. According to The Times of ... read more
Kochi, India (PTI) Sep 08, 2009The Indian Space Research Organisation is in the process of designing a satellite for providing connectivity to villages, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair said Friday. "We have plans to use multiple spot beams for the satellite, which is expected to be launched in another two and a half years time," Nair told reporters here in southern Indian state of Kerala. There are about 600,000 ... more
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Mumbai (AFP) Sept 7, 2009One in three hand grenades used by Indian soldiers is a dud, while their rifles are no match for those of extremists, a newspaper report said Monday. The Times of India said 30 percent of grenades fail to blow up after being thrown by troops in combat situations, while those that do work take four seconds to explode -- 1.5 seconds longer than those used by militants. ... more  
Kolkata (AFP) Sept 7, 2009Indian authorities have detained a United Arab Emirates airforce plane that landed in Kolkata on its way to China after discovering arms and explosives on board, airport officials said Monday. The military transport plane was given permission to land in Kolkata on Sunday to refuel on its way to Hanyang, part of the city of Wuhan in China's Hubei province, from Abu Dhabi, but did not declare ... more  
Bhubaneswar, India (AFP) Sept 7, 2009A herd of elephants in India has forced 500 villagers to flee to relief camps after the wild animals killed at least seven people and trampled hundreds of homes, officials said Monday. Angry residents blockaded a major highway last week to demand action against the marauding elephants, which have been causing chaos for more than a month. The relief camps opened on Sunday near the village ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Sept 2, 2009French navy commanders patrolling in pirate-infested waters are to be given new powers to detain suspects in international waters, under the terms of a bill unveiled Wednesday. "In a context of rising acts of piracy, particularly in the Indian Ocean, an efficient fight against piracy requires us to strengthen the French state's capacity to intervene, especially on the high seas," reads the ... more  
Panaji, India (AFP) Sept 2, 2009India's first lunar mission has captured images of the landing site of the Apollo 15 craft, debunking theories that the US mission was a hoax, the country's state-run space agency said Wednesday. "The images captured by a hyper-spectral camera fitted as a part of Chandrayaan-I... has reconfirmed the veracity of the Apollo 15 mission," said Prakash Chauhan, from the Indian Space Research Orga ... more 
Panaji, India (PTI) Sep 03, 2009India's maiden moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, in one of its vital findings, has endorsed the lunar magma ocean hypothesis, helping the scientists better understand the history of the satellite, a NASA scientist said here today. Speaking at an international conference here, Carle Pieters, a professor at the US-based Brown University, who was associated with the Chandrayaan as a moon mineral m ... more |
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