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  • ISRO, MapmyIndia workforce as much as tackle Google Maps/Earth

    Image Source : PTI ISRO, MapmyIndia workforce as much as tackle Google Maps/Earth
    In a bid to tackle Google Maps, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and digital mapping and location-based deep-tech firm MapmyIndia on Friday introduced a brand new initiative to supply a totally indigenous, mapping portal and geospatial companies. The companies will likely be combining the ability of MapmyIndia’s digital maps and applied sciences with ISRO’s catalogue of satellite tv for pc imagery and earth statement information.
    Through the mixed partnership with ISRO, MapmyIndia’s end-user maps, apps, and companies can be a significantly better, extra detailed, and complete, in addition to privacy-centric, hyper-local, and indigenous mapping answer for Indians, in comparison with overseas map apps and options, the corporate stated.
    “This partnership with ISRO heralds a new dawn of Aatmanirbhar Bharat in the strategic area of maps and geospatial technologies,” Rohan Verma, CEO & Executive Director, MapmyIndia, stated in an announcement.
    “You don’t need Google Maps/Earth any longer”, Verma stated within the headline in an article on LinkedIn.

    Users may even profit massively from the assorted map-based analytics and insights about climate, air pollution, agricultural output, land-use modifications, flood and landslide disasters, amongst others, the corporate stated.
    MapmyIndia stated its maps and APIs (software programming interfaces) will enrich ISRO’s geoportals.
    It will empower Indian scientists, academia, researchers, and authorities organisations with the perfect of India’s satellite tv for pc imagery, earth statement information, and digital map information, and superior geospatial applied sciences, all mixed collectively in a totally indigenous ISRO-MapmyIndia platform, the corporate added.
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  • Brazilian, Indian startup satellite tv for pc in ISRO’s first mission in 2021 on Feb 28

    In its first mission in 2021, India’s house company ISRO deliberate to launch on February 28 Brazilian satellite tv for pc Amazonia-1 and three Indian payloads, together with one constructed by a home-grown start-up.
    The satellites are slated to be launched onboard the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C-51 at 10.28 am from the Sriharikota spaceport, over 100 kms from Chennai.

    Secretary within the Department of Space and Chairman of Bengaluru-headquartered ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) Okay Sivan confirmed the PSLV-C51 schedule to PTI on Friday.
    Amazonia-1, reportedly the primary earth statement satellite tv for pc totally developed by Brazil, is the first payload.
    ‘Anand’, ‘Satish Dhawan’ satellite tv for pc and ‘UNITYsat’ would be the co-passengers.
    ‘Anand’ is constructed by Indian house startup, Pixxel, and ‘Satish Dhawan Satellite’ by Chennai-based Space Kidz India.
    UNITYsat is a mixture of three satellites designed and constructed as a joint improvement by Jeppiaar Institute of Technology, Sriperumpudur (JITsat), G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur (GHRCEsat) and Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore (Sri Shakthi Sat).

    “PSLV-C51 marks the launch of the countrys first commercial private remote-sensing satellite (Anand) on an ISRO PSLV rocket”, an ISRO official stated.
    Sivan had earlier described the upcoming mission as “special for us, special for the entire country” and starting of a “new era of space (sector) reforms”.
    Pixxel CEO, Awais Ahmed had stated: “We are elated with the fact that Indias first commercial private satellite will now launch on an Indian rocket.This is not only a proud moment for us as an organisation but also as citizens to work with our nations capabilities”.
    Bengaluru-based Pixxel has stated it plans to construct a constellation of 30 satellites by 2023.
    The firm inaugurated it’s new facility right here final month.
    According to Space Kidz India, Satish Dhawan satellite tv for pc (SD SAT), named after former ISRO chairman Satish Dhawan, aimed to check house radiation and Magnetosphere and reveal the indigenously designed and developed nanosatellite elements.

    “The satellite also tests the capabilities of LoRa technology in Space which could be helpful for many applications in the future in short and M2M communication”, it stated.

  • NCLT admits Antrix petition to wind up Devas Multimedia

    A bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in Bengaluru has admitted a petition filed by Antrix Corporation, ISRO’s industrial arm, for the liquidation of the area begin up Devas Multimedia and has permitted a provisional liquidator to take management of the latter’s property.
    Antrix and Devas have been engaged in authorized battles in India and the US because the February 11, 2011, cancellation of a January 28, 2005, deal for ISRO to launch two communication satellites for Devas to supply digital multimedia companies to cellphones.
    The petition filed with the NCLT comes three months after the affirmation by a US federal court docket of a world arbitration award to the tune of $ 1.2 billion to Devas as compensation for cancellation of the 2005 deal by the Indian authorities.

    Antrix has sought liquidation of Devas on the grounds that the beginning up agency perpetrated a fraud in connivance with former Antrix officers to bag the satellite tv for pc deal in 2005.
    The “provisional liquidator is permitted to initiate appropriate action in accordance with extant provisions of the Companies Act to take control of management of R1 company (Devas Multimedia) and to take custody or control of all the property effects and actionable claims to which R1 company is entitled or appears to be entitled to and take such steps and measures as may be necessary to protect and preserve the properties of R1 company and avoid misuse of its property,” the NCLT bench stated in its January 19 order admitting the Antrix petition.
    “We direct the existing management of R1 company to extend full cooperation to the provisional liquidator to carry out his duties under the extant provision of companies act 2013,” the bench stated.
    During the listening to of the petition legal professionals for Devas Multimedia objected to the liquidation plea saying it has come a very long time after the dispute had arisen and that there isn’t any urgency at current.
    The bench additionally acknowledged that its order wouldn’t prejudice rights of the businesses in litigations within the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court. The case is posted for listening to once more on Feb 8, 2021.
    In the petition, Antrix stated numerous statutory authorities have unearthed the fraud within the executing of the 2005 settlement. “The fraud is the subject matter of investigation by two premier investigating authorities of the country, the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate,” it stated.
    The tribunal stated the petition and arguments by Antrix legal professionals proves prima facie that the corporate Devas had engaged in fraud. The NCLT bench has noticed that “it is unheard of that a company incorporated hardly one and half months earlier is awarded a contract from the government of India without having any technical expertise in the field”.

  • Govt strikes to wind up Devas, $1.2 bn award nonetheless pending

    Govt strikes to wind up Devas, $1.2 bn award nonetheless pending

  • The satellites of India and Russia reached very close in space, both countries measured different distances

    India’s remote sensing satellite CARTOSAT-2F in Earth’s orbit, Russia’s Earth Observation Satellite has come very close to Kanopus-V. The space research organizations of both countries are closely monitoring it, but the distance of measurement of both is coming different.

    On Friday, Russia’s space research agency Rosskosmos said that according to the Russian rocket (TsNIIMash), on November 27, 2020, a 700-kg CARTOSAT-2F satellite came dangerously close to Kanopus-V. According to the calculations of this rocket, the minimum distance between the satellite of Russia and India is 224 meters. Rosskosmos says that both the spacecraft are designed for remote sensing of the Earth.

    ISRO said – Distance is 420 meters

    However, the head of the Indian Space Research Organization, ie ISRO. Sivan says that we have been monitoring this satellite for four days and it is 420 meters from the satellite of Russia. A plan will be made to deal with it when it reaches 150 meters.

  • India has located the lander from its Chandrayaan-2 mission to soft land a rover on the moon but has not yet been able to establish communication, ISRO notified.

    The historic mission appeared to end in failure on Saturday after scientists lost contact with the Vikram lander moments before touching down on the lunar surface.
    Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO) spokesperson Vivek Singh said that cameras from the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter had taken a thermal image of the lander and efforts were underway to establish a signal.
    The level of damage to the lander is unclear.
    Its descent went as planned until it reached an altitude of around 2 kilometers above the moon’s surface. “Subsequently the communication from the lander to ground station was lost. The data is being analyzed,” said K. Sivan, chairman of ISRO. A soft landing seeks to minimize damage to the lander and its contents by controlling the speed of its descent.

    ISRO said the mission was “highly complex” and “represented a significant technological leap” compared with other missions.
    The next phase would have been for the robotic rover, named Pragyan, to deploy and collect mineral and chemical samples from the lunar surface to find evidence of water molecules on the moon.
    But all is not lost, the space agency said. Even if communications with the rover cannot be recovered, the orbiter is expected to continue its mission of mapping the lunar surface and studying the outer atmosphere of the moon.
    The orbiter shall enrich our understanding of the moon’s evolution and mapping of the minerals and water molecules in the Polar Regions, using its eight state-of-the-art scientific instruments,” the ISRO said in a statement on its website.
    The space agency said that the lunar had “functioned excellently” and that “90 to 95% of the mission objectives have been accomplished and will continue to contribute to lunar science, notwithstanding the loss of communication with the lander,” ISRO said.

    PM Narendra Modi is seen on TV as he watches the live broadcast of the soft landing.
    PM Narendra Modi was in the mission control room when the lander was supposed to touch down.
    “In life, there are ups and downs. The country is proud of you. And all your hard work has taught us something … Hope for the best … You have served the country well and served science and humanity well,” Modi said after the announcement.
    The Chandrayaan-2, which means “moon vehicle” in Sanskrit, took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in southern Andhra Pradesh on July 22. Weighing 3.8 tons and carrying 13 payloads, it had three elements: lunar orbiter, lander and rover.
    A successful landing would have brought India into the elite group of nations who have successfully accomplished a soft landing on the moon, after the United States, the former Soviet Union and China.

  • CHANDRAYAAN-2: FINAL LUNAR ORBITAL MANOEUVRE ACHIEVED RELEASED FROM VIKRAM LANDER

    Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)issued an update on September 1 which stating that the Chandrayaan 2 has successfully performed the final lunar orbital manoeuvre. Now, the organisation has released its lunar lander Vikram today on September 2. According to ISRO, all spacecraft parameters are normal and it is currently in the lunar orbit for its rendezvous with the Moon.
    ISRO took to Twitter and wrote, “The final and fifth Lunar bound orbit manoeuvre for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was performed successfully today beginning at 1821 hrs IST as planned, using the onboard propulsion system. The duration of the manoeuvre was 52 seconds. The orbit achieved is 119km x 127km.”