A film is going to be made on ISRO scientists and actor
tuned director ISRO scientists is going to helm this film. He is going to portray
“unforgettable human stories”
through his films and his new venture will see him document the “shocking and
moving” tale of ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan. Versatile actor and Malayalam
superstar Mohanlal will act in lead
role in the film.
ISRO proved its mettle again by successfully launching PSLV-C16 rocket on 20th April 20, 2011 at 10.18 AM. PSLV-C16 successfully puts 3 satellites Remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2 and two smaller satellites YOUTHSAT and X-SAT in their respective orbits. The entire launch was completed within the duration 18 minutes.
This is 18th successful rocket launch with PSLV. Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is most reliable and cost effective launch vehicle in the world. PSLV is a synonym for success.
PSLV is 44 metres tall with a lift off weight of 295 tonne and designed to launch 1600 kg satellites in 620 km sun-synchronous polar orbit and 1050 kg satellite into geo-synchronous transfer orbit. PSLV is one the most versatile vehicle for launching multiple satellites in polar SSOs, Low Earth Orbits and geosynchronous transfer orbit. PSLV launch vehicle has 4 stages using solid and liquid propulsion systems alternately.
I’m wishing all the iSRO scientists for the successful launch of PSLV-C16.
Moon Express Inc orMoonEx plans to mine the moon and is in the process of building robotic rovers that will search the lunar surface for precious metals and rare metallic elements. Moon Express Inc or MoonEx, co-founded by Naveen Jain, is building the robotic rovers alongside scientists at NASA's AMES Research Centre near San Jose. MoonEx is financially strong and its co-founders include Barney Pell, the head architect behind Microsoft's Bing Internet search engine and Robert Richards, a commercial space entrepreneur.
While there is no guarantee that the moon is "flush" with these materials, MoonEx thinks it "may be a gold mine of so-called rare earth elements. From an entrepreneur's perspective, the moon has never truly been explored," the report quoted Naveen Jain, chairman and company co-founder, as saying.
"We think it could hold resources that benefit Earth and all humanity."
MoonEx's machines are designed to look for materials that are scarce on Earth but found in everything from a Toyota Prius car battery to guidance systems on cruise missiles.MoonEx should be ready to land on the lunar surface by 2013," Jain said.
"It's our goal to be the first company there and stay there." MoonEx comprises 25 employees, including former NASA engineers, and has received a NASA contract worth up to USD 10 million.
The company is among several others that hope to win the Google Lunar X Prize 30 million dollar competition that requires a privately-funded team to successfully land a robot on the moon's surface.
The robot must be capable of exploring at least a third of a mile and must also transmit high definition video and images to Earth before 2016.
Naveen Jain said: “the idea of exploiting the moon's resources for private gain is unlikely to be a concern. I also think that the moon will be treated no differently than the international water in our oceans. In this case, no one really owns the water but any company or country can mine the resources ... from the international water as long as they follow certain safety/moral guidelines," he said in the report. MoonEx plans to publicly demonstrate its hardware in the coming months”.
ISRO scientists have discovered a giant underground cave on the moon, which could be used as a lunar base by astronauts for inter-planetary missions.
Scientists at the Space Applications Centre (SAC), using data gathered from Chandrayaan-I'sTerrain Mapping Camera and Hyper Spectral Imager (HySI) payloads, found a 1.2 km long buried, uncollapsed and near horizontal lava tube.
The hollow cave situated just above the lunar equator on the nearside of moon, can accommodate a large number of astronauts and scientific instruments, and also protect them from hostile lunar environment.
"Such a lava tube could be a potential site for future human habitability on the Moon for future human missions and scientific explorations, providing a safe environment from hazardous radiations, micro-meteoritic impacts, extreme temperatures and dust storms," a team of scientists led by A.S. Arya of SAC, Ahmedabad.
ISRO Scientists said identifying sites for permanent base for human settlements on the moon is important for further investigation.
1 The year 2009 will go down in history as the watershed year in field of space. From starling revelations like the next ice-age phase to other spectacular discoveries like the water on moon and Martian shorelines, it has been a prolific year of space findings. Now, National Geographic has listed the best space explorations of the year 2009.
2 A new computer model has suggested that the outer crusts of so-called neutron stars are ten billion times stronger than steel, and is in fact, the strongest known material in the universe.
3 Another space discovery of the yr is that Jupiter's moon Europa may harbor fish-sized life in its oceans. A provocative new research suggested that the amount of oxygen in the ocean would be enough to support more than just microscopic life-forms, with at least three million tons of fishlike creatures theoretically living and breathing on Europa.
4. The discovery of 32 new planets outside our solar system, bringing the massive haul of new worlds to more than 400.
5. Another space discovery of the year is that pictures taken in summer 2008 showed strange globs on the leg of the Phoenix Mars Lander that seemed to behave like liquid water, which could be the first proof that modern Mars hosts liquid water
This substance is probably saline mud that splashed up as the craft landed; study leader and Phoenix co-investigator Nilton Renno of the University of Michigan had told National Geographic News. Salt in the mud then absorbed water vapor from the atmosphere, forming the watery drops, according to Renno.
6. This finding of Gliese 581d, the most Earthlike planet yet found, may have liquid oceans.
7. Exploration of the oldest of the subatomic particles called neutrinos might each encompass a space larger than thousands of galaxies.
8. The other space discovery of the year is that high-resolution pictures of a Martian valley revealed three-billion-year-old shorelines along what was once a body of water about the size of Lake Champlain, which is the first proof of ancient Mars lakeshores.
9. Finding of water on the Moon, when NASA crashed a two-ton rocket into a permanently shadowed crater on the moon's South Pole in October.
10. finding of a green 'two-tailed' comet that buzzed by Earth on a one-time visit in late February.
11. This is top space discovery of the year is that the Sun's oddly quiet phase might be indicative of the next 'little ice age'.
Indians are fascinated by Moon from ancient days and now 21st century india is ready to go on moon! Chandrayaan is the mission towords that aim.
Chandrayaan-1
On 56th indepence day, August 15 2003, India's Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced. "Our country is now ready to fly high in the field of science. I am pleased to announce that India will send her own spacecraft to the moon by 2008. It is being named Chandrayaan-1". In Sanskrit (language of Ancient India) "Chandrayaan" means "Moon Craft". Moon has always fascinated Indians from ancient days and now 21st century india is ready to land on moon! Chandrayaan-1 is the first mission towords the dream. In Chandrayaan-1, the lunar craft would be launched using Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) weighing 1304 kg at launch and 590 kg at lunar orbit. Lunar craft would orbit around moon 100 km from moon surface.
