India in 2047

India in 2047 is the premier superpower of the world, superpower in all aspects… economically, militarily, spiritually, in sports, in fashion, in lifestyle, in infrastructure, in sustainability, in altruism. It has truly become a beacon of hope in a world which was filled with strife and competition. In 2047, this Vishwaguru leads the way in treading the path towards Vasudhaiva Kumtumbakam and Sarvotthanam. There is no area of constructive activity where India is not no. 1 in the world. In 2047, India is not rising, it has already risen! It is not shining, it itself is the source of light! Bharat, Hindustan, India, Aryavratta, call this ancient civilization by whatever label you want, the crux is that it has reached the zenith of its advancement culturally, civilizationally, materially, spiritually. It is destined to remain at this zenith for atleast a hundred thousand years starting in its 100th year of independence from foreign rule i.e. 2047. The dream of our Indian heroes, martyrs, legendary rulers, freedom fighters, acitivists has been realized! This is the India that heroes like Maharana Pratap, Chhatrapati Shivaji, Netaji, Bhagat Singh ji, Gandhiji, Raja Janak ji, Adi Shankaracharya ji, Chaitanya Mahaprabhuji, Tatas dreamed of !

India today is the picture of all that is and can be good in a nation. India today is a force for good. India is the Akhand paramount mighty nation that no conniving entity can ever dream of harming, lest it call forth trouble and punishment on its own accord. Today no Indian sleeps on a hungry stomach, today every Indian has access to speedy healthcare services, today there is rule of law, today corruption does not exist, today there is harmony, brotherhood, peaceful coexistence, cooperation between all classes, castes, religions, societies in India.

TODAY MY INDIA IS WHAT OUR MAHAPURUSHAS ALWAYS ASPIRED IT TO BE…JAI HIND, JAI HIND KI SENA….Love you my country India, my heart beats for you, thank you for all that you have given me so generously, I have no words to express my gratitude to you, I am because of you, I am for you, I am YOU 🇮🇳

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How Isro is safeguarding India’s space assets in orbit

Source : Times of India

NEW DELHI: With Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) set to launch another bunch of satellites — Cartosat along with 30 nano satellites — from the Sriharikota launchpad on Friday, the number of spacecraft missions launched by the space agency till now will go up to 90. However, not all these spacecrafts are operational now but are still in space.

Though Isro’s main objective is to make satellites functional once placed in orbit, protecting them from space debris is also the top priority of the agency.

Space debris is the collection of defunct man-made objects in space — old satellites, spent rocket stages and fragments from disintegration and collisions.

These space debris can really be dangerous as they travel at a speed of up to 30,000 km an hour, which turns even tiny pieces of junk into deadly shrapnel that can damage satellites, space shuttles and even space stations.

However, Isro relies on a slew of methods to safeguard its assets in space. The agency is a member of Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee(IADC), which makes global efforts to reduce man-made and natural space debris. The primary objective of IADC is to exchange information on space debris among member space agencies, to facilitate opportunities for cooperation in space debris research and identify debris mitigation options.

Tapan Misra, director of Ahmedabad-based Space Applications Centre (SAC), said, “IADC alerts a respective space agency when any satellite of that space agency is in danger due to space debris.”

Isro also banks on its sophisticated Multi-Object Tracking Radar (MOTR), operational since 2015, to track space debris. Tapan Misra said, “The state-of-the-art radar, developed at our centre, can track 10 objects simultaneously of size 30cm by 30cm at a distance of 800km. In case of objects of 50cm by 50cm size, the radar can track at a range of 1,000km.”

The space agency is also making efforts to reduce space debris by going for mass satellite launches. After the successful launch of a record 104 satellites in one go on February 15, Isro is gearing up to launch 31 satellites, all packed in PSLV-C38, from Sriharikota on Friday.

The SAC director said, “With use of one rocket for multiple satellites, Isro is actually helping reduce space debris”, as each rocket spent in space adds to space junk.

Explaining the process of rockets becoming space debris, Dr K Sivan, director of Thiruvananthapuram-based Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, said, “The fourth stage of rocket once launches a satellite into its respective orbit becomes useless. This fourth stage, which contains some propellant, could be dangerous as it could explode and add to space debris. But we ensure this stage doesn’t explode as we have fitted a mechanism whereby this stage automatically deactivates and de-pressurises itself after it places a satellite in its orbit and completes its mission.”

As of July 5, 2016, the United States Strategic Command had tracked a total of 17,852 artificial objects in orbit, including 1,419 operational satellites. As of July 2013, over 170 million debris smaller than 1 cm, about 670,000 debris 1-10 cm, and around 29,000 larger debris were estimated to be in orbit.

Isro has been tracking its spacecrafts 24×7 to eliminate the danger of space debris hitting them.

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ISRO wants desi Satellite-Navigation to go ‘global’ & challenge American GPS and Russian GLONASS

Source: http://defencenews.in/defence-news-internal.aspx?get=new&id=agQBwa/6IiQ=

The Indian Space Research Organisation has unveiled plans to gradually make its regional satellite navigation system global — akin to powerful position-telling systems such as the U.S.’ GPS and the Russian GLONASS.

ISRO Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar said four of the seven Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) satellites are in orbit and the last three spacecraft would be added in orbit by March 2016. The IRNSS would provide self-reliance in the strategically important area of position-related information, he said at a users’ conference on global navigation satellite systems on Thursday.

The focus now was on completing the regional constellation and extending it to South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation countries. “After that we will look at taking it gradually over the entire globe, may be in less than a decade. It could be done by adding a set of regional satellites over adjoining countries. We are working towards this with other countries – [South] Korea and the Gulf nations, to name a few,” Mr. Kiran Kumar said.

The signals from the regional system were already available 1,500 km beyond the borders.

In April this year, ISRO and the Airports Authority of India also completed GAGAN, focussed on airlines, airports and the civil aviation sector but applicable to land and sea-based services. GAGAN enhances the GPS-derived details of location and time of objects or persons.

Both IRNSS and GAGAN, he said, would drive an unlimited set of personal, public and industrial users, from transportation, railways, forestry, farming, agriculture and security. Around 200 navigation receiver sets built by industry and using ISRO design would be out soon.

Om Shanti Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam