You thought right. When the agreement was signed in 2007, ISRO was responsible for orbiter only, but later Roskomos conveyed its inability to provide the rover. ISRO then decided to built both the rover and the orbiter. Here is a 2011 presentation slide on luna-reource/ Chnadrayaan-2 which...
With several successful missile launches and many more in the pipeline, the DRDL has firmly established itself as the countrys premier technology laboratory.
The Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), Hyderabad, is a facility where thick scrub jungles coexist with...
What was army doing for a decade? If they wanted next gen INSAS rifles they could have asked MOD to fund such a project and DRDO to start work. They could have done this by middle of the last decade. As far as comparing ISRO and DRDO, ISRO is both the development agency aswell as the user, while...
Thanks for your concern. You should not worry too much about Tejas. The project is doing fine and the institutions involved are climbing the steep curve of learning modern fighter design, testing and productionisation. ISRO went through the same learning process when they started with...
Human space flight will only happen after 2020. The work on the third launch pad that will support the HSP mission still in the planning phase. It will take time. LVM3 will only be operational after 2018, so HSP only after 2020.
ISRO Human Space flight Program
Antriksh
ISRO Human Space flight program is split into following three different phases:
First phase: design, development and performance demonstration of critical technologies leading to manned space missions.
Second phase and third phase: establish the...
Tentative list of Mars scientific payloads
1. Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser (MENCA)
MENCA (Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyser) is based on the technique of quadrupole mass spectrometry and it operates in the mass range of 1-300 amu. The scientific objective of MENCA...
I dont understand why people even make effort to reply to failthfulguy because all he does is troll and troll without doing any proper research about the topic at hand. he derails each and every thread about India by bringing off topic remarks.
I dont understand why people even make effort to...
Mars orbiter weighs 1360 Kgs. The scientific payload will be 10-25 kgs depending upon the mission orbit and duration of the scientific studies. Atleast read on the topic before opening your troll mouth.