SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AFFAIRS AUGUST 2009

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AFFAIRS AUGUST 2009

South Korea had launched its first Rocket Naro-1. It failed to place the satellite in the earth’s orbit. 

The indigenously built T-90 S tank ‘Bhishma’ was handed over to army in Chennai. The superior features of the new battle tank are its mobility, lethal firepower, surprise hit-at-first sight and self-protection. Its enhanced mobility, ballistic computers for sight and accuracy and capability to fire all types of ammunition in addition to firing guided missiles make the `Bhishma' among the best in the world 

Spaceship Discovery was sent to International Space Center from Kennedy Space center, Florida. 7 astronauts were sent along with it. 

Chandrayaan-I was terminated by ISRO as it lost the radio signals with the craft. ISRO Chairman said that there was no chance of retrieving it. 

Cystorm, a Sun Microsystems Machine was developed by Mr Aluru Srinivas from Iowa State University. This supercomputer unleashes 28.16 trillion calculations per second. 

ISRO had launched a 3D mapping tool, Bhuvan. It is an indigenously developed system which takes pictures of the earth similar to that of Google earth. 

Nag was successfully test-fired
The indigenously developed anti-tank missile Nag was successfully test fired from the Interim Test Range at Chandipur-on-sea, about 15 kilometres from Balesore in Orissa.