19 Jul

A Lifetime Eclipse

BY SD on Sunday, July 19th 2009   under: India   Tags: ,    

July 22, 2009 is going to be one special day in our lives being the day of the longest total solar eclipse of our lifetime. The eclipse will commence soon after sunrise starting in the Gulf of Cambay at Surat, Gujarat and then pan across India. The shadow of the moon will be so large [...]

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14 Jun

Oceansat-2 and GSAT-4

BY SD on Sunday, June 14th 2009   under: TechTalk   Tags: ,    

After attracting world attention last month by launching the country’s first “spy satellite,” the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is already planning to launch the indigenously built Oceansat-2 satellite by July end or July. G Madhavan Nair, Chairman, ISRO “It will be a unique mission and the satellite would enable us to study the sea [...]

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