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Submission + - India successfully test fires its heaviest rocket

Submitted by vasanth
vasanth writes: India on Thursday moved forward in rocket technology with the successful flight testing of its heaviest next generation rocket and the crew module . The 630-tonne three-stage rocket, Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III, carried active solid boosters, liquid core stage and a passive cryo stage and a crew module to test its re-entry characteristics.

This rocket is capable of doubling the capacity of payloads India can carry into space and it can deposit up to four tonne class of communication satellites into space. India also plans to use this rocket for ferrying Indian astronauts into space.

For India, ISRO the Indian space agency perfecting the cryogenic engine technology is crucial as India can save precious foreign exchange by launching heavy duty communication satellites by itself.

Submission + - India Successfully Launches navigation satellite 1

Submitted by vasanth
vasanth writes: India has successfully launched IRNSS-1C, the third satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), early on October 16. This is the 27th consecutively successful mission of the PSLV(Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle). The entire constellation of seven satellites is planned to be completed by 2015.

The satellite is designed to provide accurate position information service to users in the country as well as in the region extending up to 1,500 km from its boundary, which is its primary service area.

In Kargil war in 1999 the Indian military sought GPS data for the region from the US. The space-based navigation system maintained by the US government would have provided vital information, but the US denied it to India. A need for an indigenous satellite navigation system was felt earlier, but the Kargil experience made India realise its inevitability in building it's own navigation system. "Geopolitical needs teach you that some countries can deny you the service in times of conflict. It's also a way of arm twisting and a country should protect itself against that," said S Ramakrishnan, director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram

Submission + - Indian Spacecraft "Mangalyaan" Placed in MARS orbit

Submitted by William Robinson
William Robinson writes: The spacecraft called Mangalyaan (“Mar’s craft”) which was launched in November last year, slowed down just enough to touch the orbit early Wednesday (Indian Time), securing India a place in the elite global space club of Martian explorers. More than half of the 51 Mars missions launched globally have failed. India’s Mars entry is the fourth, after the United States, Europe and Russia. But India’s mission cost a fraction of NASA’s $670 million Maven which entered Mars on Sunday. The Curiosity Rover, which touched down on Mars in 2012, cost nearly $2 billion. By comparison, India’s $72 million Mars orbiter is the cheapest inter-planetary mission in the world.

Submission + - Mangalyaan successfully put into Mars orbit

Submitted by knwny
knwny writes: India's Mars satellite Mangalyaan was successfully placed into orbit around Mars early on Wednesday following a 10-month journey from Earth. India thus joins the U.S., the European Space Agency and the former Soviet Union in having successfully completed a Mars mission. It is however the only one to have done so on the first attempt. Headed by the Indian space agency ISRO, Mangalyaan was made in 15 months at a cost of just around 70 million USD crore — the cheapest inter-planetary mission ever to be undertaken.

Comment Re:well (Score 4, Interesting) 128

by vasanth (#47520773) Attached to: The Psychology of Phishing

We experienced numerous well crafted phishing attacks, and had 1 person out of 5,800 click the link. That person immediately contacted security, and we reset all of their account data. That was 1 out of 5,800 once

or 1 out of 5,800 realised that they were being phished and many more never realised it...

Submission + - India launches five foreign satellites

Submitted by vasanth
vasanth writes: India has put into orbit five foreign satellites, including one built by France two from Canada and one each from Singapore and Germany. The PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) has so far successfully launched 67 satellites, including 40 foreign ones, into space. The PSLV costs about 17 Million USD and the cost is seen as a major advantage India has over other countries in terms of commercial launches. When talking about the cost of the project, the Prime Minister of India noted that the launch was cheaper than Hollywood film Gravity.

Submission + - India launches five foreign satellites (bbc.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: India has put into orbit five foreign satellites, including one built by France two from Canada and one each from Singapore and Germany. The PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) has so far successfully launched 67 satellites, including 40 foreign ones, into space. The PSLV costs about Rs. 100 crore (20 Million USD) and the cost is seen as a major advantage India has over other countries in terms of commercial launches. When talking about the cost of the project, the Prime Minister of India noted that the India’s Mars mission cost less than movie Gravity.

Submission + - India successfully launches indigenous cryogenic engine-powered sattelite (rediff.com) 1

Submitted by vasanth
vasanth writes: Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Sunday successfully launched GSLV-D5 rocket, which is powered by an indigenous cryogenic engine. Seventeen minutes after liftoff at 4.18pm, the rocket successfully injected GSAT-14 communication satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit. This makes India the 6th nation with cutting edge technology to launch geostationary satellites.
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Submission + - SpaceX: Lessons Learned Developing Software for Space Vehicles (lwn.net)

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jrepin
jrepin writes: "On day two of the 2013 Embedded Linux Conference, Robert Rose of SpaceX spoke about the "Lessons Learned Developing Software for Space Vehicles". In his talk, he discussed how SpaceX develops its Linux-based software for a wide variety of tasks needed to put spacecraft into orbit—and eventually beyond. Linux runs everywhere at SpaceX, he said, on everything from desktops to spacecraft."

Submission + - World's first 'tax' on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 (bbc.com) 1

Submitted by vasanth
vasanth writes: The Australian online retailer Kogan.com has introduced the world's first "tax" on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) browser.

Customers who use IE7 will have to pay an extra surcharge on online purchases made through the firm's site.

Chief executive Ruslan Kogan told the BBC he wanted to recoup the time and costs involved in "rendering the website into a antique browser".

The charge is set to 6.8% — 0.1% for every month since the IE7 launch.

Submission + - Indian company creates steel jobs in the US (moneycontrol.com)

Submitted by vasanth
vasanth writes: A top Obama Administration official on Thursday praised Tata Steel an Indian company as a shining example of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States that has created jobs in the economy.

Is this going to b a future trend where we will see more and more companies from India and China investing in the US?

Comment At a very basic level.. (Score 1) 339

by vasanth (#37105940) Attached to: How Linux Mastered Wall Street
I do not want to directly oppose some of the misguided views here but I see a lot of hatred for HFT, finance etc but at a very basic level there should be no regulation or hindrance for 2 ppl to exchange value (trade) as long as they believe they are deriving some value out of the transaction they are being part of even if others believe that the transaction is of no benefit (after all who can decide what's of benefit or not).. The idea of trade (any form of trade or barter) from an individual perspective is not for the betterment of society but for their own good but the unintended consequence is advantageous to society as a whole.. People might hate globalisation, free flow of capital etc but there is no denying that the onslaught of globalisation has reduced global poverty but I agree this has been at the price of increased inequality... Increased inequality in my opinion is better than all being equally poor... And for ppl who would disagree that global poverty has reduced just check world bank data on all statistics such as nutrition, health care, life span, access to electricity, telecommunication etc and you will see all there has been a remarkable rise in these factor over the last 30 years all over the world...

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