India entered into the space age by launching its first scientific satellite, Aryabhata on April 19, 1975 with the assistance of a Soviet booster-rocket. It was the heaviest satellite i.e. 360 kg in weight and 1.2m high with 26 faces.
506 words essay on the concept of Launch Vehicles Technology. SLV-3 is India's first satellite launch vehicle and was used to place a 35kg. RS-I (Rohini) satellite into a low earth orbit in July 1980.
The information revolution is driving the world today and in this scene the convergence of three key sectors - information, communication and entertainment (ICE) - holds great promise.
India's first laser was set up as early as 1964 at BARC (Shaba Atomic Research Centre). Since then, though these activity could not generate enough momentum in the first decade but in mid-seventies (1965-66), it got its pick up very fast.
514 words essay on Science and Technology in India. Implication of Science and Technology to mans' use is as old as 2500 B.C or much earlier when the people..
Essay on Should Science Be Only The Handmaid Of Technology. Some years ago, talking to pressmen of the work being done at India's internationally famous School of Mathematics..
Short essay on the rise of Information Technology in India. The global media started writing about India positively only in the past eight years, largely due to the spectacular progress of the Indian IT industry T2K came as a bolt form the blue and a blessing in disguise.
Tradition is like the flow of certain practices from distant past that receives both acquiescence as well as acceptability among social beings, without much grumble or grouse, even though it may not be fully free from the dust of many a flaw that might have crept into it without people ever realising or resisting.
India may not be such advanced as the US in terms of Internet coverage, but beyond a shadow of doubt India is galloping forward in the IT revolution, and the youth brain power of this country is helping such revolutions take place in many other countries as well.
The draft Convergence Bill which was expected to bring a new communication order by integrating telecom, IT and information and broadcasting sector; had already been cleared by a Group of Ministers on IT and telecom headed by the Finance Minister. The bill was introduced in the parliament in May, 2001.