Science
RISAT Spy satellite launched by ISRO
Apr 20th
ISRO on Monday 20th April successfully launched its first all-weather spy satellite that will help security agencies keep a watch on the movements on the borders, from its spaceport here.
Watch the video (courtesy: Times of India)
The PSLV-C12, carrying 300-kg Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT-2) and 40-kg micro educational satellite ANUSAT lifted off from ISRO’s Satish Dhawan [...]
Chandrayaan takes off successfully
Oct 22nd
Historic moment for the entire country, the PSLV-C11, carrying India’s first unmanned moon spacecraft Chandrayaan-1, was successfully put into initial orbit from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Wednesday at around 6.40 am. Watch
At the end of the 49-hour countdown, the 44.4 meter tall four-stage PSLV-C11 blasted off from the second launch pad lifted off [...]
India’s First Mission to Moon – Chandrayaan
Sep 22nd
India in going to join the elite club of counties who have been able to send missions to moon, if everything goes as planned, any of the days starting October 19th to 28th would be remembered as the day when indian reach the nearest celestial body, the MOON. Chandrayaan-1 (means moon craft) is all set [...]
Big bang experiment rap video at youtube is biggest hit
Sep 12th
Scientists of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project at Cern created a rap video and uploaded on the youtube is the biggest hit (2.5 million hits in less than two weeks). The video explains what the LHC is and features white coated scientist dancing in the collision chamber. The video was shot by a trainee at [...]
Indian technology to increase missile range by 40%
Sep 11th
After the successful nuke deal, indian scientist at IISc Bangalore developed breakthrough technology that will increase the range of missiles and satellite launch vehicles by at least 40%.
Agni III, India’s longest-range missile is capable of hitting targets 3,500 km away after applying this technology its range will increase upto 4,900 km. It became possible [...]
Large Hadron Collider Started
Sep 10th
The big bang experiment (biggest experiment for human race) started at 9.30 am local time. Scientists have switched on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the device they hope will unravel some of the remaining mysteries of the universe.
The £5 billion machine has been described as a 17-mile racetrack around which two streams of protons – [...]
Big Bang experiment at CERN
Sep 10th
Today at 12:30 pm (IST) scientists will launch an experiment that will recreate the birt of universe (The Big Bang). They are hoping to find evidence of extra dimensions, invisible ”dark matter,” and an elusive particle called the ”Higgs boson”.
They are planning to send a beam of particles racing around the 27-kilometer ring of the [...]
