ISRO Latest Satelites GSAT-5P,Resourcesat-2,PSLV C-16

The Indian Space Research Organisation, which had a recent setback with the failure of its latest communication satellite GSAT-5P, is planning three major satellite launches in the first quarter of this year. Resourcesat-2, an advanced remote sensing satellite, Youthsat, a participatory scientific mission with payloads from both Russia and India, and X-sat, Singapore's first indigenous satellite, will be the launched on board of homemade PSLV...

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LIST OF INDIAN SPACE SCIENCE SCIENTISTS

1: Ms. Lalitha Abraham: Technical PhysicsDivision: : ISRO Satellite Centre: Airport Road,Vimanapura P.O.: BANGALORE - 560 017: Phone - 080-5083707: mailto:lalita@isac.ernet.in:Research Area ASTRONOMY&ASTROPHYSICS/- 2: Prof. B.S. Acharya: HECR Group: Tata Inst. of Fundamental Res.: Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba: MUMBAI - 400 005: Phone - 022-2152971: Fax 2152110: mailto:acharya@tifr.res.in:Research Area ASTRONOMY&ASTROPHYSICS/COSMIC RAYS 3: Mr. Y.B. Acharya: Engineer-SF: : Physical Res. Lab.: Navrangpura: AHMEDABAD - 380 009: Phone - 079-6302129:...

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NASA Mars mission

Faced with deep budget cuts, NASA is restructuring its Mars exploration program in order to scrap up funds for a possible robotic mission to the red planet between 2018 and 2020. President Barack Obama released a projection of reduced budget allocations over the next five years for the space agency on Feb. 13 that would shrink the budget for its Mars exploration program from $587 million in 2012 to $189 million by 2015, international science...

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A Brief History of NASA

Launching NASA "An Act to provide for research into the problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for other purposes." With this simple preamble, the Congress and the President of the United States created the national Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on October 1, 1958. NASA's birth was directly related to the pressures of national defense. After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were...

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