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ISRO trying to put electric propelling system for satellites: Sivan

Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre director Dr K. Sivan said that efforts are on to put electric propelling system for satellites to enable them to carry more payload.
HYDERABAD: Efforts are on to put electric propelling system for satellites to enable them to carry more payload,Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre director Dr K. Sivan said here today.

"The efforts will help in cutting down fuel required for maneuvering the satellites in the orbit and more payload can be taken," Sivan said at the 10th International High Energy Material conference and Exhibits (HEMCE 2016) here.

He said GSLV Mark III will be launched in December this year.

The ISRO scientist said efforts will be made to launch 'Chandrayan 2', the country's second lunar exploration mission after 'Chandrayaan-1', with a rover as soon as possible.

On manned space flight, Sivan said they are coming up with a project called "Abbot Machine".

Earlier, Dr.K.P.S. Murthy, Director, High Energy Materials Research Lab (HEMRL), spoke about the development of high explosive detective technology which is being developed for concealed explosives by their laboratory.

Observing that high energy material technology is a highly-guarded technology, Dr. Satish Kumar, Director General, Missiles and Strategic Systems,DRDO, said, "scientists and technologists are moving forward and advancing towards total self-reliance in this critical area".

He said the high energy materials is a specialised field that "partly determines the status of the nation".

"For a given propellant energy level, there is a need to optimise the design to maximise the overall performance and minimise the losses in the futuristic aerospace mission," the Director General said.

He said the modular design and safer manufacturing techniques in high energy materials are the need of the day.

The conference was organised by the Hyderabad Chapter of the High Energy Material Society of India in association with the Defence Research and Development Laboratory and Advanced Systems Laboratory.

 

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Even as it Dares to Dream, ISRO Needs Clear Metrics of Success
We are sitting on a host of possibilities for generating multiplier effects across academia and industry, and benefit the country over a longer timespan, but aren’t taking advantage of them to the fullest.

A PSLV C31 rocket fully integrated with the IRNSS 1E satellite being moved to its launchpad at Sriharikota. Credit: ISRO

Most space enthusiasts have heard how ‘each dollar of NASA spending is a catalyst for $10 of economic benefit’. But have you ever heard someone say “Each rupee of ISRO spending is a catalyst for Rs.10 of economic benefits”? Wouldn’t it be great to have such numbers on hand when folks question investments in the space sector by India every time a new mission is planned?

The mainstream media is quick to latch on to fun facts like how the Mangalyaan mission’s mileage was cheaper than an auto’s and cost less than the Hollywood film Gravity. A slightly better informed space enthusiast perhaps knows that the Government of India is spending about Rs.7,400 crore during fiscal year 2015-2016 on the space programme. Then again, all these numbers speak about investment and not returns.

From a lay person’s perspective, the only return on investment we hear about is from the commercial arm of ISRO, Antrix Corporation. However, this may not be significant in a true economic sense since Antrix’s profits mostly reflect revenues from foreign sources. It does not provide any financial insight into how space sector investments translates into socio-economic benefit for the common man. Moreover, Antrix Corp’s profits of $28 million a year generated over the last 5 years through foreign channels is minuscule considering the $300-billion global space economy.

We all appreciate the foundation of ISRO and its service towards the nation. But do we have any established year-on-year socio-economic metrics that provide insights on how much a rupee invested in the space programme contributes to the socio-economic development of India?

ISRO publishes an Annual Reportand an Outcome of Budgetannually, which provide information on developments in the space agency, the missions and their expenditure, the major achievements including successes of the satellites and the launch vehicles, etc.

Both these reports provide information on broader issues of socio-economic interest such as space applications, industry and commerce, academic research, reform measures and policy initiatives that have direct impact on the economy. These are areas that definitely have an economic impact in generating jobs, creating technological capacity, development of critical IP, promotion of investment, education, natural resources management, etc.

In fact, the Outcome of Budgetreport itself suggests that ‘the nature of Outcome of the Space Programmes will be mainly in the form of:

• Indigenous capability to develop and realise complex space systems such as satellites and launch vehicles,
• Creating infrastructure in Space by launching and operationalisation of satellites including Space operations, which are utilised by various user agencies for national development,
• Capacity building in terms of critical technologies and ground technical infrastructure of relevance for future, and
• Benefits to the society arising from application of space technology/systems such as IRS satellites, INSAT satellites in various fronts.’

Let us simplify these outcomes and take a closer look.

Industry development

ISRO recognises that developing a strong industry ecosystem is important to achieve higher throughput via self reliance. Building capacity in the industry enables exploration of business in commercial space. To encourage industry, ISRO facilitates technology transfer and offers buy back from the licensee. Currently, it seems that ISRO has atechnology transfer portal which is mainly driven by its Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad. The Annual Report of 2014-2015 provides account of six new technologies licensed to industry for commercialisation and regular production.

While this is an important enabler in the development of industry, one has to explore ‘spin-off metrics’ on how the industry is taking the technology to the next level in ‘productisation’ and eventual market capitalisation. These are the all-important metrics that space agencies such as NASA use to sell their budget proposals to their governments. In fact, NASA has tracked its 2000 spin-off technologies since 1978 and has a dedicated portal providing information on these. Clearly, a multiplier effect in economy is only possible when spin-offs take off as commercial products and services. However, this is one area where there is a clear lack of tangible information.

Therefore, as the industry grows, building frameworks and metrics in tracking multiplier effects will give us insight into the industry ecosystem spawned by ISRO’s missions. Such an exercise can start from tracking the 500 companies that currently work for the space programme in the country (most of which have been developed as vendors by ISRO). The critical question here is how many of them still depend solely on ISRO’s orders and how many have ‘productised’ and diversified their offerings. If there are only single vendors for a particular range of products and services, there may be no incentive for the vendor to diversify since business is ensured. Any productisation needs additional expenditure, which the vendor may not be interested in incurring due to the long product development lifecycle and the risk involved. Therefore, tracking of ISRO technology licensees currently under buy-back and publishing such metrics in the public domain will attract further licensees and can create a competitive environment for vendors. This competition will in turn force the vendors to diversify. This way, a bubble that would have arisen from hundreds of SME (small and medium enterprise) vendors depending on ISRO as their sole customer, will be avoided.

Eventually a full scale mapping of how many jobs are being supported via the ecosystem, the value of exports based on the transferred IP, revenues in royalties/taxes and other such data can provide effective benchmarks for investment into space sector in India. In fact, such metrics will help ISRO build a case for the larger budgets its future missions need.

Downstream applications

The foundation of ISRO has been the exploration of space for societal benefits, which is referred to as downstream applications. To this end, ISRO is considered to be one of the leaders in developing space-based societal applications. In the Annual Report, ISRO provides excellent information on how downstream applications of satellites are found in areas such as crop acreage and production estimation, Indian Forest Cover Change Alert System (InFCCAS), inventory and monitoring of glacial lakes/water bodies, agricultural drought vulnerability and many more. However, the report limits itself to use-cases and does not explicitly state the economic benefit brought about in these fields as a consequence of ISRO’s satellites.

Given that ISRO is a Central institution, the applications of space technology shall also depend on the clients’ responsible for using/implementing its products/services. For example, ISRO may only develop a platform for the Ministry of Agriculture to assess the crop output or land fertility. The onus lies with the end-user agency (e.g., the India Meteorological Department uses INSAT imagery) to use such a service effectively in their current schemes for farmers. Therefore, mapping the internal ecosystem of coordination between Central and state authorities and their effectiveness in the utility of space applications needs to be encouraged. Such an internal ecosystem mapping will lead to effective peer-to-peer functioning within the governmental institutions and ensure there are no silos.

One needs to realise that the realm of space applications can also be in commercial downstream applications in areas such as insurance, trade, real estate, oil and gas. They have the potential of taking the indigenous space applications developed in/for India to the world at large, creating a brand for export of space applications, which in turn can generate export earnings. While ISRO itself may not have the bandwidth or focus in servicing such a cause, there is a need for a foundation to be laid towards such a goal. It may be worth taking notice of models such as the Space Applications Catapult and develop a long term strategy for commercial space applications.

Academic research

ISRO encourages academic research via its RESPOND(Research Sponsored) programme, which has been in place since the 1970s. As part of this initiative, premier academic institutions in the country, including the IITs and IISc, receive funding to conduct research related to space science, technology and applications. While there is an account on the domain aspects of the projects and a breakup of them according to the institution being funded, the only result of such research grants provided is their completion status (Annual Report 2014-15 Pg. 89).

Academic research plays a fundamentally important role in developing a strong foundation for patenting and university spin-offs. There is a need to track the outcome of these projects andcreate innovative ‘models’ apart from commercialisation of technologies developed.

There is a lot that can be learnt from the development of institutions such as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology or the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their rise in contributing to their respective national space programmes. Both of these models have developed and matured over decades of engagement and encouragement. They now serve their respective space programmes, taking charge of missions such as the Curiosityrover and in leading policy entrepreneurship, proposing ideas and setting agendas.

RESPOND must help the systemic development of infrastructure in human capital (in both academic staff and student community) and build capacity in Indian academia. There is a need to employ ‘innovative policies’ in creating clusters of excellence in various domains in the space sector, which will eventually contribute to the larger objectives of the space programme.

There is no doubt that ISRO is one of India’s brightest technology jewels and is probably the best performing government department as well. We must celebrate its success in discovering water molecules on the Moon and in making India the only country to successfully reach Mars in its first attempt. However, we are also sitting on a host of possibilities for generating multiplier effects across academia and industry, and benefit the country over a longer timespan, but aren’t taking advantage of them to the fullest.

Imagine a day when our own companies becomes better than the likes of SpaceX and Blue Origin, when one of our premier academic institutions leads a robotic mission to an asteroid. There are no second thoughts about the value of such dreams turning into reality, and establishing metrics and frameworks in the Indian space programme may well be the first step towards realising such a dream.

 

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India Developing High Explosive Detective Technology & Electric Propulsion for Satellites

SAFRAN'S CTX 9800 Explosives Detection System (EDS), mainly used in the civilian sector

HYDERABAD: Efforts are on to put electric propelling system for satellites to enable them to carry more payload, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre director Dr K. Sivan said here today.

"The efforts will help in cutting down fuel required for maneuvering the satellites in the orbit and more payload can be taken," Sivan said at the 10th International High Energy Material Conference and Exhibits (HEMCE 2016) here.

He said GSLV Mark III will be launched in December this year.

The ISRO scientist said efforts will be made to launch 'Chandrayan 2', the country's second lunar exploration mission after 'Chandrayaan-1', with a rover as soon as possible.

On manned space flight, Sivan said they are coming up with a project called "Abbot Machine".

Earlier, Dr.K.P.S. Murthy, Director, High Energy Materials Research Lab ( HEMRL), spoke about the development of high explosive detective technology which is being developed for concealed explosives by their laboratory.

Observing that high energy material technology is a highly-guarded technology, Dr. Satish Kumar, Director General, Missiles and Strategic Systems, DRDO, said, "scientists and technologists are moving forward and advancing towards total self-reliance in this critical area".

He said the high energy materials is a specialised field that "partly determines the status of the nation".

"For a given propellant energy level, there is a need to optimise the design to maximise the overall performance and minimise the losses in the futuristic aerospace mission," the Director General said.

He said the modular design and safer manufacturing techniques in high energy materials are the need of the day.

The conference was organised by the Hyderabad Chapter of the High Energy Material Society of India in association with the Defence Research and Development Laboratory and Advanced Systems Laboratory.

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India Developing High Explosive Detective Technology & Electric Propulsion for Satellites

SAFRAN'S CTX 9800 Explosives Detection System (EDS), mainly used in the civilian sector

HYDERABAD: Efforts are on to put electric propelling system for satellites to enable them to carry more payload, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre director Dr K. Sivan said here today.

"The efforts will help in cutting down fuel required for maneuvering the satellites in the orbit and more payload can be taken," Sivan said at the 10th International High Energy Material Conference and Exhibits (HEMCE 2016) here.

He said GSLV Mark III will be launched in December this year.

The ISRO scientist said efforts will be made to launch 'Chandrayan 2', the country's second lunar exploration mission after 'Chandrayaan-1', with a rover as soon as possible.

On manned space flight, Sivan said they are coming up with a project called "Abbot Machine".

Earlier, Dr.K.P.S. Murthy, Director, High Energy Materials Research Lab ( HEMRL), spoke about the development of high explosive detective technology which is being developed for concealed explosives by their laboratory.

Observing that high energy material technology is a highly-guarded technology, Dr. Satish Kumar, Director General, Missiles and Strategic Systems, DRDO, said, "scientists and technologists are moving forward and advancing towards total self-reliance in this critical area".

He said the high energy materials is a specialised field that "partly determines the status of the nation".

"For a given propellant energy level, there is a need to optimise the design to maximise the overall performance and minimise the losses in the futuristic aerospace mission," the Director General said.

He said the modular design and safer manufacturing techniques in high energy materials are the need of the day.

The conference was organised by the Hyderabad Chapter of the High Energy Material Society of India in association with the Defence Research and Development Laboratory and Advanced Systems Laboratory.

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Electric propulsion man...I'm badly waiting for December for GSAT-19E launch. I think 'E' stands for Electric?

 

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Electric propulsion man...I'm badly waiting for December for GSAT-19E launch. I think 'E' stands for Electric?

May be.
ISRO is seriously considering satellite's electric propulsion.
Tests on earth were all successful but launch failure of GSLV MarkI at that time spoiled the party of GSAT -4.
Russia and China already use this method at a large scale.
If ISRO deploys GSAT-19E successfully, there's very high probabailty of using system on every satellite (ISRO's official statement ) .

And
You should not be excited over this.
Because we have other much exciting plan.
Nuclear Propulsion on Space Exploration Crafts
Plan for Cdy-2 was dropped because ISRO had to change the background of all mission if they had to put nuclear power on it.

Later, they announced that Cdy-3 and 4 will use it.
India has currently future plans of:
1. Cdy-2,3 and 4 (To Moon), under development
2. Mgy-2 (for Mars), under development
3. Venus(mission paused because of other priorities)
4. Asteroid(little details)
5. Aditya (solar), in development

Later, we will launch missions to outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn and others when ULV and HLV will come in scenario.

 

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You should not be excited over this.

I am excited when I think about how much we can scale this technology up further.

Because we have other much exciting plan.
Nuclear Propulsion on Space Exploration Crafts

I am hoping for something like the New Horizons from ISRO with N-power for carrying out sustained deep-space exploration.

Plan for Cdy-2 was dropped because ISRO had to change the background of all mission if they had to put nuclear power on it.

Later, they announced that Cdy-3 and 4 will use it.
India has currently future plans of:
1. Cdy-2,3 and 4 (To Moon), under development
2. Mgy-2 (for Mars), under development
3. Venus(mission paused because of other priorities)
4. Asteroid(little details)
5. Aditya (solar), in development

Later, we will launch missions to outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn and others when ULV and HLV will come in scenario.

Yes, I was aware of these missions. However I was looking at more immediate gains.

But bro, what do you think of private sector's role in India's future space business? It's high time the Ambani brothers or someone cash in on the huge space-biz market by investing in building low-cost launch vehicles. I feel as though that once the RLV is developed, ISRO should let the private co.'s manage that business and send in money to ISRO as royalties. Or do you think it would be better if ISRO alone gets all the revenue?

 

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But bro, what do you think of private sector's role in India's future space business? It's high time the Ambani brothers or someone cash in on the huge space-biz market by investing in building low-cost launch vehicles. I feel as though that once the RLV is developed, ISRO should let the private co.'s manage that business and send in money to ISRO as royalties. Or do you think it would be better if ISRO alone gets all the revenue?

Godrej Aerospace is biggest private giant in Indian Space Industry.
Our Industry is nornot currently very high privatized a USA but still it's well above world average. About the level of Japan.
ISRO is also considering roll of private industry. They are transferring space tech to many private players and building manufacturing plants with them.
Private Cos will make parts which will be assembled by ISRO for launch.
So, it will reduce the time consumed for manufacturing at a great extent.

Another Bright Company is TATA.
TATA is not taking help and doing innovations for space exploration.
One example is Astrosat whose many instruments were made by TATAs. Probably, they will also dominate Aditya L1.

As the Indian Economy expands and power will shift from west to east, obviously, India will have become strongest capitalized democracy standing with a communist giant China(could be like USA vs Soviet Union because China hates private companies ).
Whatever be the position of other companies in future, Godtej will dominate in building rockets like Boeing in USA and TATA in building spacecrafts like Lockheed Martin.
Private Players are showing interest and ISRO also has no problem in giving technology to them whwhich they will develop further and make it better.
There were rumors on many forums:
ISRO is disturbed by Chinese Lunar Activities and so now planning a long run space exploration plus manned mission program like USA.
They have even internal targets of landing humans on Moon in next two decades.
Meanwhile, China is focussing only on Manned Mission to Moon;
ISRO is considering manned missions, Manned Moon Mission, Space Exploration and telescopes.
ISRO's budget is also expected to overtake China's in 2-3 years.
And a lot to companies will be needed for achieving such milestones unlike communist mentality of China.
Wish you may live very long and we could watch an intense space race in 2050.

 

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Wish you may live very long and we could watch an intense space race in 2050.

Main tho India-China space race ka peak stages dekh karhe marunga.

 

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Main tho India-China space race ka peak stages dekh karhe marunga.

Mujhe population declination ki bhi chinta hai.
India ki population bhi 2050 ke baad se kam honi shuru ho jayegi.
Itni kam ki agli century main pakistan ki population zyada hogi.

Pakistani economy will be larger than before due to population.
(Even then their economy will remain smaller because our GDP per capita will be 10.2 times higher )

 

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Mujhe population declination ki bhi chinta hai.
India ki population bhi 2050 ke baad se kam honi shuru ho jayegi.
Itni kam ki agli century main pakistan ki population zyada hogi.

Pakistani economy will be larger than before due to population.
(Even then their economy will remain smaller because our GDP per capita will be 10.2 times higher )

I'm pretty sure Pak won't survive as a state past 2018.

You will see in due course.

 

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I'm pretty sure Pak won't survive as a state past 2018.

You will see in due course.

Please make them survive for 5-6 more decades anyhow.
I wanna see them on PDF on that time. Their faces when they will launch their first indigenous satellite with homegrown rocket in 2040( first communication satellite) and India will have flag on Moon.

This must happen be around 30-35 years from now.
Well, let's not derail the thread and keep it informative. :grin:

 

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User Interaction Meet 2016 and New Releases in Public Domain
National Remote Sensing Centre(NRSC) is one of the important centres of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) with the responsibility of providing satellite-based Earth Observation data, aerial services, applications of space technology for natural resources management, disaster management support and varieties of geospatial solutions.

User Interaction Meet (UIM2016) was organised at National Remote Sensing Centre during 3-4 February 2016 followed by an exclusive session with Academia & Researchers on 5th Febraury 2016. The objective of the meet was to create an open forum for scientific exchanges, technology trends and to showcase the various new applications developed by NRSC amongst geospatial user community.This opportunity was also used to inform the effective use of space technology in the country, potential for the near-future and release of new products & services, including policies.The specical session with "Academia & Researchers"enthused the student community, faculty and researchers to work more closely with NRSC on various application programs.A total of 370 users from various central, state, private and academic organisations participated during these 3 days.More than 150 participants were from various colleges and universities, pursuing research and Postgraduate studies in the field of geospatial technology.

The inaugural session was graced Shri. Ravi Shankar Srivastava, IAS, Principal Secretary, DST, Govt. of Rajasthan, Shri S. M. Upase, Secretary (WRM & CAD), Water Resources Department, Government of Maharashtra, Dr. B.P. Awasthi, ED Tk(P), Railway Board, and Dr. S. Arunan, Director, Earth Observation System, ISRO HQ,. Technical sessions on ISRO’s future EO missions and applications, updates on current services, multi-spectral data utilisation, high resolution data and DEM utilization, microwave data usage, space-based disaster management, science data usage, image processing, and geo-spatial services were conducted as part of the meet. Many parallel sessions and technical discourses were held on the occasion including a specialy technical session in Hindi, software demonstrations (Bhuvan and User-Order-Processing-System). An exclusive exhibition, digital displays and demonstrations attracted the attention of many. Another special feature of the meet was a special one-day parallel session with State Remote Sensing Application Centres (SRSACs) to enable improved use of space technology by various State Governments in the country. 22 SRSACs participated and highlighted the current use of technology in their respective States and it was noted that most of these centres are actively pursuing the use of space technology in close coordination with NRSC.

Inaugural Session of UIM 2016
Shri. A.S. Kiran Kumar, Chairman, ISRO and Secretary, DOS delivered the keynote address and emphasised on the effective propogation anduse of space technology for diversified applications in the country. Dr V.K. Dadhwal, Director, NRSC announced/ released new products and services for the geospatial communityand also highlighted on the revised price list for the ISRO’s satellite data products in the country.Important highlights of the new releases are:

a)Earth observation (EO) products from Indian Missions:RISAT-1 Level-2A product, Oceansat Scatterometer 2-day time composite global sigma naught product (25 km), CartoDEM V3.0(data with 10 m spacing,covering India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Egypt and part of Saudi Arabia) and from foreign missions:Suomi NPP and Metop-B AVHRR(NDVI product).

 

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CartoDEM for India & Surrounding Countries OSCAT Two-Day Time Composite Global Sigma-Naught Product
b)New geospatial products like AWiFS (Rabi & Zaid - 767 tiles), LISS III (Rabi - 6500 tiles) datasets for 2013, CartoDEM 30 m V3.0(India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Egypt and part of Saudi Arabia) and various land, ocean and atmosphere products under National Information system for Climate and Environment StudiesNICES.These are useful for climate and environmental studies, made available for free download through NRSC Open Data Archive under Bhuvan geospatial platform.

c)Bhuvan geospatial services are enhanced with new content, thematic services, functionalities and applications in support of state and central governance. Bhuvan visualisation is already enriched with 1 m color satellite data for more than 400 cities, covering an area of 4.5 lakh sqkm and more than 8 million Points Of Interest (POI) data (click for view). Bhuvan thematic services is further enriched with Water Body Information System (WBIS), harmonised & improved Land use/ Land cover (LULC)data at 1:2,50,000 scale V2.0, hot spots generated from 2-time LULC data at 1:50,000 scale and urban fraction for sprawl (based on 4 dates images during 1992-2014 for 150 cities).

d)Many new functionalities like route navigation, proximity analysis, enhanced 3D with local terrain and terrain profile (click to view), photosphere in 2D (crowd sourcing), and 3D Panoramic view(including Salarjung Museum) are also provided.

e)Bhuvan support for g-governance (http://bhuvan-noeda.nrsc.gov.in/ministry/sitemap/) is provided for central government organisations/programmes like Bhuvan-PRAGATI, Department of Posts, Bhuvan Farmer Portal (for visualisingmandi, cold storage locations in map view), basic geospatial data for Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY), Deltas of India, Island Information System, Archaeological monuments and ENVIS (Environmental Information System).Further, Bhuvan support is also extended toUttarakhand Forest, Water Resources Management Support for Maharashtra (Bhuvan-MERI), Telangana State Panchayat Raj and Engineering Department (click to view), Flood Hazard Zonation for Assam State(click to view) and Flood inundation viewer for Bihar (click to view).

 

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f)In order to meet the ever increasing demand for Bhuvan geospatial services andg-governance support, Distributed Bhuvan nodes are being established across the nation. New Bhuvan nodes are established in NorthEastern Space Application Centre, Shillong, Regional Remote Sensing Centres at Nagpur, Bengaluru, Jodhpur and Kolkata, Indian Railways, Delhi.More centres are coming up in the States of Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha. Other States will follow shortly.

360° Virtual Tours
Satellite locator & coverage viewer

Bhuvan –Geotagged Indian Post Offices and Services
g) Software utilities for Natural Colour Composite (NCC) image generation and sigma naught product generation for RISAT-1 were released during the meet. Enhanced services under User Order Processing System (UOPS), namely, ordering of 10m CartoDEM, satellite locator & coverage viewer(click toview) were also released.

h) Moble Apps usage has added a new dimension to the integrated use of space & information technology. NRSC has developed many mobile apps that are being used by various users including the citizens. Keeping this in view, 11 unique Mobile Apps facilitating geo-tagging and geo-information services for various user Ministries/ Departments were also released.

 

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(i)BhuvanGAGANPOI(GAGAN based geotagging App. using Indian SBAS technology that ensures location accuracy of better than 2 m), (ii)BhuvanPost (Geotagging of all Post offices& their services in India), (iii)BhuvanIPU(Estimation of irrigation potential utilization), (iv) BhuvanFL(Data collection for forest loss information system), (v)BhuvanAnganwadi (Geo-tagging of all Anganwadis), (vi)BhuvanNYKS(Geotagging of all Youth Clubs in India), (vii)BhuvanDrugs (Geotagging of all medical stores, blood banks, blood storage centres etc.), (viii)BhuvanVaidya (Geotagging of all hospitals under NTR vaidya Seva), (ix) BhuvanRUSA(Monitoring centrally funded infrastructure development projects of MHRDfor higher education institutions), (x)BhuvanHailstorm (data collection on damages due to hailstorm) and (xi)BhuvanIFM (Monitoring irrigation infrastructure projects).

Mobile Smartphone Apps have provided more than 8 million POIs on Bhuvan

Mobile Apps-based geotagged data with field photos currently on Bhuvan platform




i) The participants were also informed about the research opportunities available with NRSC on Cal/Val Site, Intensive Study Site and on-demand EO services from Bhuvan.

CalVal Site at IMGEOS Complex, Shadnagar











Story of the Week - Archive


Feb 10, 2016 : User Interaction Meet 2016 and New Releases in Public Domain
Feb 02, 2016 : IIST: Capacity Building for Indian Space Programme
Jan 26, 2016 : Aditya - L1 First Indian mission to study the Sun
Jan 18, 2016 : ASTROSAT Completes 100 days in Orbit
Jan 11, 2016 : Geo-spatial Technology for Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan
Jan 05, 2016 : ISRO Completes 50 Launches from Sriharikota
Dec 29, 2015 : Mount Abu InfraRed Observatory (MIRO) : Unveiling the Universe

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Book on Astrosat Released - Download the Copy


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UAE Seeks India's Help for Its Mars Project

With ISRO achieving success on its Mars Orbiter Mission (MoM) in its maiden attempt, United Arab Emirates has sought India's cooperation for its first inter-planetary expedition, which is slated to launched in 2020.
The two countries also signed a pact to cooperate in the field of space technology Thursday.
"We recently launched the UAE Space Agency. We are looking to develop science around space particularly developing Mars mission that will culminate hopefully by 2020-21 when we celebrate our golden jubilee as a nation."
"This is another demonstration of UAE's forward looking and pioneering initiative where focus on developing partnership with those who have space expertise," Reem Al Hashimi, UAE's Minister of State for International Development said.
The Emirates Mars Mission orbiter is set to arrive at Mars in 2021 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the founding of the UAE. The rocket is expected to blast off from Earth during a brief "launch window" in July 2020 and is set to arrive at Mars in 2021. The move is also remarkable as UAE will be the only Gulf nation to have embarked on such ambitious project.
The spacecraft will be a compact, hexagonal-section spacecraft. It will be built from aluminum in a stiff but lightweight honeycomb structure and surfaced with a strong composite face-sheet. Its overall size and weight are comparable to a small car. It will weigh approximately 1,500 kg including fuel, and measure 2.37 m wide by 2.90m tall.
Elaborating on the space cooperation project with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Hashimi said, "We wouldn't be doing launches. We have been involved in space related activities for our satellite launches and we have worked very closely with South Korea.
"But its more focused on what are the necessary technologies that can be developed in-house that require certain level of knowledge and expertise that is specific to this industry and we have done that already in the fields of satellites."
Mohammad Anwar Gangarsh said the pact will pave to start a cooperation between the space agencies of the two states.
"Right now we have the framework for cooperation. I think this is really something which will allow the agencies to talk and communicate as so forth.
"It is extremely important that as we come to our (golden) jubilee we are putting a stretch target and at the same time we understand that this sort of programme the spill over effect on science and technology in our own society and that is extremely important," Gangarsh said.
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Anyway, please give your opinion about GSLV Sir

I think they'll go for two more to tame this bad boy, and then make it available for commercial launches. For the first DF of the (GSLV Mk-III D1) the launch target is Dec 2016. The second DF of (GSLV Mk-III D2) is in Dec 2017. Saar ?! chasma laga lu The GSLV MK-III is conceived and designed to make ISRO fully self reliant in launching heavier communication satellites of INSAT-4 class, which weigh 4500 to 5000 kg. As of now. for launching heavier satellites into orbits India pays an upward of Rs. 400 crore to other space agencies. As is evidently clear that having a launch vehicle of such a capacity as GSLV MK-III, will not only help India launch its own heavier fleet of satellites but also make ISRO a major international player in launching satellites for other countries, getting revenues for the nation. Such heavier launchers also provide a means for missions based on lander and orbiter system. (India is working on Chandrayaan 2 for putting up a lander on the lunar surface). Once ISRO masters its GSLV Mark-III, the country can save a massive amount of the foreign exchange it presently is spending to send its heavy communication satellites through other space agencies aboard. India can plan serious deep space missions in the future. The future of the global satellite launch market is all about communication satellites, and it is imperative for ISRO to augment its launch capability constantly to compete with powerful rockets like the European Ariane and America’s Delta and Atlas that dominate the business of heavy- lift launchers.

 

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