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Sunday, March 14, 2010
Admiral Gorshkov Cleared By The Cabinet For $2.35 Billion
The cabinet panel cleared the $2.35 billion fresh price for the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov which India has purchased from Russia, an official said. The clearance comes a day before Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrives here on a two-day visit. "The cabinet committee on security (CCS) has given its approval to the fresh price for Gorshkov," a defense ministry official said. The long-delayed re-negotiated pact for the carrier, re-named INS Vikramaditya, will be among defense deals worth $4 billion that are expected to be finalized during Putin's two-day visit. The warship, originally purchased for $1.5 billion, is currently undergoing a refit at Russia's Sevmash shipyard. Of this, $974 million was meant for the refit and the balance for a squadron of MiG-29K combats jets that will be deployed on the vessel. Citing additional costs for the refit, Moscow had jacked up the price to $2.9 billion. New Delhi wanted the price to be scaled back to $2.1 billion. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during his visit to Moscow last December also pushed for the finalization of the fresh price.
The cabinet panel cleared the $2.35 billion fresh price for the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov which India has purchased from Russia, an official said. The clearance comes a day before Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrives here on a two-day visit. "The cabinet committee on security (CCS) has given its approval to the fresh price for Gorshkov," a defense ministry official said. The long-delayed re-negotiated pact for the carrier, re-named INS Vikramaditya, will be among defense deals worth $4 billion that are expected to be finalized during Putin's two-day visit. The warship, originally purchased for $1.5 billion, is currently undergoing a refit at Russia's Sevmash shipyard. Of this, $974 million was meant for the refit and the balance for a squadron of MiG-29K combats jets that will be deployed on the vessel. Citing additional costs for the refit, Moscow had jacked up the price to $2.9 billion. New Delhi wanted the price to be scaled back to $2.1 billion. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during his visit to Moscow last December also pushed for the finalization of the fresh price.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Aditya
Indian space scientists are not merely eyeing the Moon. They plan a probe to Mars for a six-to-eight-month odyssey in 2012-13, to look for evidence of life on the Red Planet.
Inter-planetary missions will search for answers to a gamut of questions, from the chemical attributes of the Martian atmosphere to secrets hidden below ground.
They will use powerful remote-sensing gadgets onboard a 500-kg payload. Such plans indicate that Chandaryaan-I (2007-08) will not be a one-shot effort at technologically daunting missions.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G Madhavan Nair told HT: "Mars is emerging on our horizon. The GSLV can take a payload to Mars and our Deep Space Network can track it all the way. There is a lot of interest in Mars, though the distances are large. The missions of the United States and the European Space Agency have given us some interesting data. Let us see what value addition our mission can bring."
An ISRO probe would spark international interest across the world, and perhaps lead to an international Mars station. Former ISRO chairman UR Rao explained that the mission would require new experiments, with many technological spin-offs. "We need very good young scientists and middle-level scientists with leadership qualities to take these programmes forward," he said.
"On Mars, there is a structure that resembles the Grand Canyon but is three times larger," said SC Chakravarthy, ISRO programme director for the space science office. "We will gather detailed imagery to look for answers on how it was formed."
Like in previous projects, ISRO will attempt new studies on Mars. Dr Chakravarthy, said "Our mission will look at a gamut of questions not only of the terrain but sub soil features with high resolution remote sensing instruments."
Indian space scientists are not merely eyeing the Moon. They plan a probe to Mars for a six-to-eight-month odyssey in 2012-13, to look for evidence of life on the Red Planet.
Inter-planetary missions will search for answers to a gamut of questions, from the chemical attributes of the Martian atmosphere to secrets hidden below ground.
They will use powerful remote-sensing gadgets onboard a 500-kg payload. Such plans indicate that Chandaryaan-I (2007-08) will not be a one-shot effort at technologically daunting missions.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G Madhavan Nair told HT: "Mars is emerging on our horizon. The GSLV can take a payload to Mars and our Deep Space Network can track it all the way. There is a lot of interest in Mars, though the distances are large. The missions of the United States and the European Space Agency have given us some interesting data. Let us see what value addition our mission can bring."
An ISRO probe would spark international interest across the world, and perhaps lead to an international Mars station. Former ISRO chairman UR Rao explained that the mission would require new experiments, with many technological spin-offs. "We need very good young scientists and middle-level scientists with leadership qualities to take these programmes forward," he said.
"On Mars, there is a structure that resembles the Grand Canyon but is three times larger," said SC Chakravarthy, ISRO programme director for the space science office. "We will gather detailed imagery to look for answers on how it was formed."
Like in previous projects, ISRO will attempt new studies on Mars. Dr Chakravarthy, said "Our mission will look at a gamut of questions not only of the terrain but sub soil features with high resolution remote sensing instruments."
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