ISRO sets up Space Technology Cells in premier institutions

The Indian Space Research Organization will set up five Space Technology Cells at the premier institutes in order to carry out research activities. It includes IISc, IITs in Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras and Kanpur. Space Technology cell The Technology cells will consist of professors and scholars associated with the institute. Under the programme, the experts will ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2019

Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs

Topics: Aerodynamics • DRDO • IIITs • IITG-ISRO Space Technology Cell (STC) • ISRO • Satellite Technology • Space technology • Space Technology Cell

Russia tests a new hypersonic nuclear weapon delivery system ‘Avangard’

Russia has successfully tested a new hypersonic nuclear weapon delivery system , named “Avangard”, from the Dombarovskiy missile base in the southern Ural Mountains. It successfully hit a practice target on the Kura shooting range on Kamchatka, 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) away. The Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle flies 27 times faster than the speed of ..

Topics: Aerodynamics • Aerospace engineering • Aircraft • Airspeed • Avangard • Aviation • Boost-glide • Hypersonic aircraft • Hypersonic speed • Intercontinental ballistic missile • Outer space • Space weapons

Scientists build and flow first-ever silent airplane with no moving propellers or jet turbines

Scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US have built and flown first-ever silent airplane with no moving propellers or jet turbines. At present, every aircraft have moving parts such as propellers, turbine blades and fans, which are powered by the combustion of fossil fuels or by battery packs that produce a persistent, whining buzz. ..

Month: Current Affairs - November, 2018

Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs

Topics: Aerodynamics • Airbreathing jet engine • Aircraft • Airplane • Electrodynamic Thrust • Energy • FIrst silent airplane • Gas turbines • Ionic wind • Jet engine • Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Mechanical engineering • Radio-controlled aircraft • Science and Technology • US • Vehicle

United States X-51A vehicle crashes in test flight

X-51A built by U.S. which was designed to travel from London to New York (around 5570 km) in 45 minutes crashed into the Pacific Ocean in its test flight. The test was conducted off the coast of California at Mach 6 speed– (up to 7,300 kmph) which means six times the speed of sound. What is ..

Month: Current Affairs - August, 2012

Topics: Aerodynamics • Aerospace engineering • Aircraft • Airspeed • Aviation • Boeing X-51 Waverider • Hypersonic aircraft • Hypersonic speed • Mach number • NASA X-43 • Spacecraft propulsion • Vehicles