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A few weeks ago, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) raised its performance bar yet again when its commercial arm successfully placed 36 communication satellites of London-based OneWeb in Low Earth Orbit (LEO)—the new genre of satellites. The satellites—part of a constellation of owned...

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/trendingtopics/private-earth-imaging-satellite-6-others-and-bhutansat-to-piggyback-on-oceansat-3/ar-AA13WXGp

Thoughts if you have any? @Jackdaws @Zapper @Iceream @Paro @Gessler @Rajendra Chola et al.

I like the part where he said dongfeng.

Successful CE20 uprated Engine Hot Test with 21.8 T vacuum thrust https://www.isro.gov.in/LVM3_CE20_uprated_Engine_Hot_Test.html

Many of the earlier exports are found in the RnD archive and similar threads: https://defencehub.live/threads/indian-r-d-programs-and-acquisitions.2692/ Please compile here going forward but continue cross-posting in the earlier ones as you prefer to as well. @Zapper et al.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/malabar-exercise-between-navies-of-india-japan-us-australia-begins/articleshow/95405882.cms The multilateral exercise, Malabar 2022, between the navies of India, Japan, the United States and Australia commenced on Wednesday with the opening...

Five years after the foundation stone was laid of the ambitious 508-km Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project, work on the 348-km Gujarat stretch of the project has gathered speed, with teams of engineers and workers working 24x7 in shifts to make up for time lost due to land acquisition issues...

https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/indias-first-private-sector-rocket-vikram-s-skyroot-aerospace-to-launch-in-november-isro-2294842-2022-11-08 The company has already received a technical launch clearance from IN-SPACe for the launch. (Photo: Skyroot/Representative) By Sibu Tripathi: In...

Astra and SAAW (and their future variants) may also potentially make it to Indonesian Rafale: https://defencehub.com/integration-of-the-astra-and-saaw-on-the-rafale/

There are lot of promising underlying numbers but proof is in the pudding. TOI prime puts paywall, here is the earlier article from regular TOI...

Amidst the recently concluded “Defexpo 2022” in India, a significant yet under-reported development materialised regarding local Indian missile platforms and the Dassault Rafale aircraft. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed between BDL (Bharat Dynamics Limited) and Dassault on the...

Well for some reason Aslan (from the C S Lewis stories) popped up in my head earlier (and I already knew the name was taken from Turkish) and I just wondered what Tiger was. Also two of my best friends from Pakistan (one from school years and other from university) share the name cognate in...

In following video, there are many details he overlooks (I have an oil/gas energy friend who has given me deep insight over some time on the subject of USSR energy), but he covers many of the key elements of the earlier backdrop relevant to Germany, Europe and even the US. It is instrumental to...

Thank you kindly! My assumption was it was related to cat/feline (since both are big cats), but it is broader than that clearly.

Interesting thread on MARCOS equipment @Zapper @Paro et al. (edit: twitter thread now got deleted....darn)

In Turkish: aslan = lion, kaplan = tiger what is the meaning/etymology of suffix "lan" if it has one? Or just a shared coincidence?