ISRO, India set to Implement regional navigation (GPS) atellite system

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to implement the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) to provide India and neighbouring countries with the Position Navigation and Timing (PNT) service, S.V. Kibe, Brahmprakash Professor in the ISRO Headquarters, Bangalore, said .The government had approved the project, which would be implemented in the next few years. Initially, the system would have seven satellites and then 11, he said, addressing the SpaceSummit at the 98th Indian Science Congress at Kattankulathur.

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Precision Surveying equipment used in Indian border dispute

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Geography has come to help government again.

The border between the states of Gujarat and Rajasthan has been surveyed by government officials, to officially determine where the taxes of the people living in the border area should be paid.

Precision surveying equipment is increasingly being used to determine long-disputed boundaries across the globe, and has now been turned to settle  ancient contentious borders in India.

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Researchers map solar hot spots in India

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, are mapping India’s solar hot spots—where round-the-year sunlight makes it viable for companies to set up solar power plants. This mapping project is supported by the Environment Ministry, Government of India (GOI).Solar potential maps, depicting monthly variations over the topography of India, were obtained using the GIS for mapping.

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Bacteria As Hard Drives

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

A group of students at Hong Kong’s Chinese University have developed a way to store complex information in bacteria.This opens up a way to saving text, images, music, and even video within living cells.One gram of bacteria could store the same amount of information as 450 2,000-gigabyte hard disks.Biostorage — the art of storing and encrypting information in living organisms — is a young field, having existed for about a decade…

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