SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AFFAIRS APRIL 2009

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AFFAIRS APRIL 2009

• Bharti Airtel launched 16 Mbps wireless broadband powered by Airtel’s carrier Ethernet network in New Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore. 
• The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C12) has put orbit Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT-2), a surveillance satellite, which could keep a watch on the country’s borders. This is the first time the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) putting in orbit a RISAT in the micro-wave band. 
• The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea announced the successful launch of an indigenous communications satellite by a home-made three stage rocket, Unha-2 (Milky Way). 
• India has successfully test-fired a version of nuclear-capable Prithvi-II ballistic missile, with a range of 350 km from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur.