Monday, July 12, 2010

PSLV C-15

On July 12, 2010
PSLV-C15, the seventeenth flight of ISRO's versatile Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV,
put CARTOSAT-2B in polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO).
(PSLV was initially designed for launching Indian Remote Sensing Satellites into a 900 km polar SSO)
first launch in 1993.
For PSLV-C15 mission, the 'core alone' version of PSLV was used.
The 44 metre tall 'core alone' version of PSLV weighs 230 tons at lift-off. Six solid 'strap-on motors', clustered around the first stage of PSLV 'standard version' to enhance its thrust, are absent in 'core alone' version. PSLV-C15 is the sixth flight of the 'core alone' version of PSLV.
Also Algeria's 116-kg ALSAT-2A, Canada's 6.5 kg NLS-6.1 and AISSAT-1, Switzerland's NLS-6.2 TISAT, and picosatellite STUDSAT designed by 35 undergraduate engineering students from seven colleges in Bangalore and Hyderabad.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

The First Leader of the Opposition in the Indian Parliament was AK Gopalan

A.K. Gopalan (AKG) - Communist party leader. First opposition leader in Indian Parliament. Father of Indian Coffee Houses AKG. One of the most popular among all the Left leaders in India. He died on March 21, 1977 at the age of 73.

Henry Dunant is the founder of Red Cross Society

The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded by Henry Dunant

Zinc Phosphide

Zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) is a rodenticide, a category of pest control chemicals intended to kill rodents.

Corundum

Corundum (Aluminium oxide) is a mineral of aluminium

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Georgia

Georgian President : Mikheil Saakashvili

Pakistan

Pakistan Prime Minister : Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani

Water and Power Minister : Raja Pervez Asraf