Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre News

R Aravamudan hailed from a middle-class family in the then Madras He was among the first to join ISRO(then INCOSPAR) He was first-rank holder from the Madras Institute of Technology

The drone was first sighted at Kovalam beach early by a night patrolling group of Kerala police.  

New Delhi, Jan 10 (PTI) Noted scientist Sivan K was today appointed as the chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to replace A S Kiran Kumar.

Titled Dr Kalam Smriti International Science & Space Museum, the facility is considered to be the first of its kind in south India.  

The Solar Hybrid Electric Car, designed and developed using in-house expertise, was successfully demonstrated recently in a test drive at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Thiruvananthapuram.

Over half a dozen major automobile companies have already approached ISRO for the technology, as they are keen to produce the indigenous Lithium-ion batteries.

The one meter Hypersonic Wind Tunnel and one meter Shock Tunnel have been established with a wide spectrum of simulation capabilities in terms of Mach number, Reynolds number and re-entry velocities.

Frankly ISRO does not claim it wanted to set any record," K. Sivan, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, which makes the PSLV and all other rockets for ISRO said.

In an unprecedented event, Indian space agency ISRO, will be making commercial use its own multiple burn technology while launching eight satellites - five foreign and three domestic - in different orbits today.

At those heights of 6000-7000 m, extreme weather is the bigger killer.