Project Conception In 1973, Prof. Narasimha left academia for Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. He joined the Aircraft Design Bureau at a time when Indian aviation was entering an ambitious phase. Four years later, he was appointed Chief Project Coordinator, a position he held until 1979. In the late 1970s, following a long gap in indigenous fighter […]
The ‘P77’ program would encompass the construction of the Indian Navy’s first indigenously-built nuclear-powered attack submarines or SSNs. In the absence of much officially-released information, a lot is left to infer regarding what the boats built under this program would be capable of. But there are enough bits to piece together in order to paint a decent picture.
This article looks at India’s ongoing micro-controller & micro-processor R&D work in defence, space, telecom, IoT and other strategic sectors. Most of this R&D is funded by DRDO, MeitY, ISRO and related agencies (under direct/indirect control of the Government of India). While this has been the case so far, in recent years participation from academia […]
As India moves to be a leading economic & military power, the nation’s premier space agency, together with Private-sector enterprise, gear up to provide ever-greater and ever-more affordable means of access to space – which in the 21st century is as much a building block of prosperity as roads & railways were in times past.
Over five decades of operations, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) developed several rockets capable of orbiting satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and beyond. This is a brief look into the history of those launch systems developed by the premier Indian space agency.