Cover Page: Picture of full moon showing Oceanus Procellarum area where a Lava Tube has been found by Chandrayaan-1 |
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Indian Space Programme PM's Visit To SAC PM's Address At SAC French President Visits ISAC HYLAS - Commercial Satellite NCEPS - 2011 NE-SAC Lava Tube Detection By Chandrayaan-1 Padamshree To Shri Annamalai |
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| PM's Visit To SAC |
Dr. Manmohan Singh, Hon. Prime Minister of India, visited Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad on Saturday, March 26, 2011. Dr. K. Radhakrishnan, Chairman, ISRO/Secretary, Department of Space and Dr. R. R. Navalgund, Director, SAC received Hon. Prime Minister at SAC campus. More.. |
| PM's Address At SAC |
March 26, 2011 "It is a matter of great pleasure for me to be here with all of you today. The Space Applications Centre is one of the premier centres of the Indian Space Research Organisation. It is special because it is located in the city where Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, the father of our space programme, was born... More.. |
| French President Visits ISAC |
President of France, His Excellency Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Ms. Carla Bruni, visited ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC), Bangalore on December 4, 2010 during their four day visit to India. It was a highly significant and impressive event for ISRO since ISAC was the first on the French President's itinerary during his visit to India. More.. |
| Padamshree To Shri Annamalai |
 Mr. M Annamalai is the recipient of "PADMASHREE" Award of the Government of India for the year 2011 for his outstanding contributions in the field of Science and Engineering. More.. |
| NE-SAC |
 NE-SAC, located at Shillong, is a joint initiative of DOS and North Eastern Council to provide support to the North Eastern region in using space science and technology for development. The centre has the mandate to develop high technology infrastructure support to enable NE states to adopt space technology inputs for their development. More.. |
| HYLAS - Commercial Satellite |
Highly Adaptable Satellite (HYLAS), an advanced communication satellite built by ISRO on a commercial basis in partnership with EADS-Astrium of Europe, was successfully launched on November 27, 2010 at 00.09 hours Indian Standard Time (IST) by the European Ariane-5 V198 launch vehicle. The launch took place from the Guyana Space Centre at Kourou in French Guyana.
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| Lava Tube Detection By Chandrayaan-1 |
India realised its dream of planetary missions by successfully launching Chandryaan-1 on October 22, 2008. Among 11 different scientific payloads onboard this mission there was an important sensor – the Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) – having high spatial resolution (5m) and three dimensional viewing capability. This had the best orbital sensor parameters ever flown to the Moon before this mission.
The TMC could capture the Lunar surface features with an unprecedented clarity.
A buried uncollapsed and near horizontal Lava tube could be detected using TMC nadir image in Oceanus Procellarum area on Moon.
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| NCEPS - 2011 |
 ISRO’s Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) organised a two-day National Conference on Electric Propulsion Systems at LPSC Bangalore during February 23–24, 2011 in order to bring experts working in the field of Electric Propulsion on a common platform. This was first ever National Conference on this subject in India
and it was organised against the backdrop of the successful qualification and
realisation of Electric Propulsion System flight module for GSAT-4, which marks an important milestone in ISRO’s quest for advanced spacecraft propulsion technologies for future missions despite many daunting technical challenges.
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