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HAL to Hand Over first Hawk Jet Trainer to Indian Air Force Thursday

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) will formally hand over its first built Hawk Mk 132 aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF) on Thursday. The Hawk Mk 132 is a transonic tandem-seat ground attack tra..Read More

Aero India 2009: More than 600 Top Aerospace Organizations to Participate

Nearly 600 foreign and national companies will participate in Aero India-2009, one of the largest international aerospace exhibitions, to be held in Bangalore next year. Armament majors from several c..Read More

Raytheon Leads Team Bidding on GAGAN Satellite-Based Navigation System

Raytheon Company is leading a team to deliver a comprehensive solution for the Indian Space Research Organization and Airports Authority of India global navigation satellite systems. This will complet..Read More

EADS May Move Airbus Production To India

The European aircraft consortium, EADS, has said that it may start producing in India so as to be closer to its customers here. The Company Chairman, Mr Louis Gallois, told newspersons at the ongoing ..Read More

India To Undertake 70 Space Mission In Four Years: ISRO (Space Agency)

India plans to undertake 70 space missions in five years, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, G Madhavan Nair, told reporters here on the sidelines of a function."We have proposed some..Read More

India's Lunar Project - Chandrayaan I - To Be Remote Sensing Mission

India's first unmanned mission to the moon will be a remote sensing mission with an objective to do the chemical and mineral mapping. "Chandrayaan-1 is basically a remote sensing mission doing a ..Read More

ISRO Conducts Successful Test of Indigenously Developed Cryogenic Stage

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has achieved a significant milestone through the successful test of indigenously developed Cryogenic Stage, to be employed as the upper stage of country&#..Read More

Armed Forces to Focus on Widening of Spectrum of Future Conflict

The 'widening spectrum of conflict' ranging from space to deep underwater sea was the common agenda of the different wings of the Indian armed forces that met separately here.The Indian Army..Read More

India To Launch Israeli Spy Satellite TechStar in September 2007

ISRO's four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) will launch Israeli spy satellite - TechSar - in September 2007. The satellite is said to weigh around 260 kilograms.Although officials at ..Read More

India To Launch Dedicated Military Satellite CARTOSAT 2A To Monitor Missile Launches

India will launch its first dedicated military satellite in August to give the country the capability to monitor missile launches in its neighborhood.The dedicated military reconnaissance satellite, C..Read More

ISRO To Begin Delivering High Resolution 1m Satellite Imagery Based Products

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is preparing to develop superior satellite imagery based products of up to half-metre resolution and beyond even as it is about to hit the global market w..Read More

Glonass System to be Launched by Year-End: Russia

The Glonass global navigation system will be inaugurated later this year, Russia's first deputy prime minister said Wednesday. India is said to be a major partner in the Glonass System which is s..Read More

International Legal Regime for Peaceful Use of Space Needs to be Strengthened: India

The Union Minister of External Affairs, Shri Pranab Mukherjee today said that India is alive to the needs of its armed forces and the requirement to maintain significant defence and deterrence capabil..Read More

ISRO Conducts Successful Cyrogenic Engine Test

In a major breakthrough in its space programme, India today successfully conducted the first test of its indigenously developed cryogenic rocket engine at a facility at Mahindragiri in Tamil Nadu."We ..Read More

INSAT 4C launch unsuccessful, GSLV strays off course

Srikarikota: After the failure of Agni III missile, India's space programme received a major setback today when the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F02) carrying the INSAT-4..Read More

India to build Rs. 1600 cr. satellite navigation system

Bangalore: A satellite-based system to be built in the next five to six years at a cost of Rs 1,600 crores will enable New Delhi to provide positioning, navigation and timing services across th..Read More

ISRO set to launch INSAT 4C in July 2006

An INSAT 4C satellite being launched from Indian soil will provide better transmission through Direct to Home (DTH) TV for viewers in India.This is the 15th satellite in the INSAT series, and is sched..Read More

Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System approved

New Delhi: The cabinet Tuesday approved the development and deployment of an Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) that will include an independent, indigenously developed constel..Read More

GAGAN Navigation System to be operational this year

The GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) system being developed by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) in association with Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be operational within ..Read More

INSAT-4A launched successfully

New Delhi India's most advanced INSAT-4A telecommunication satellite was successfully launched by the European generic rocket, Ariane-5, from the spaceport of Kourou in French Guyana at 04..Read More

India, Russia to sign IPR & other defence & space treaties

Moscow: Taking their strategic partnership to a new high, India and Russia will sign four key agreements on space and defence cooperation during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's three-day v..Read More

India (ISRO) to launch Israeli Spy Satellite

New Delhi: Israel has decided to launch its next spy satellite aboard India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rather than its own indigenous Shavit rocket, according to a report in "..Read More

Russia & China to boost oil, space collaboration

Russia has pledged to almost double its annual oil shipments to China and to expand the two countries' cooperation on gas and space projects. The agremeents came in a joint communique signed in t..Read More

India planning to launch satellites for military purposes

Satellites have become an indispensable tool in the arsenal of any country. The surveillance and photographic capabilities of military satellites have acquired unbelievable capabilities. The best mili..Read More

India Building A Military Satellite Reconnaissance System

India is building up a satellite-based Military Surveillance and Reconnaissance System that will become operational by 2007, allowing it to keep watch on developments in its area. "The program is in t..Read More

Astronomers claim discovery of 10th planet in solar system

A US astronomer has said he had discovered a 10th planet in the outer reaches of the solar system that could force a redrawing the astronomical map.If confirmed, the discovery yesterday by Mike Brown ..Read More