How Can We Matter

The NavIC System This morning (29-01-2025) ISRO successfully launched their GSLV-F15 rocket  precisely injecting the NVS-02 navigation satellite into the required orbit. This launch marked ISRO's 100th rocket mission, with the first big rocket liftoff, 46 years ago, on 10th August 1979. Image Credit: Indian Aerospace & Defence Bulletin On this occasion, I am proud to recall that during 1976-1985 I was working at the Space Applications Center (ISRO), Ahmedabad on satellite remote sensing and prior to that, during 1972-1976, I was part of the team at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center (ISRO), Trivandrum, involved in the structural analysis of SLV rockets. See the past blog of May 22, 2017 titled Vintage Computer Programming of 1970s .  NVS-02 is the second in the series of the NavIC system ( Navigation with Indian Constellation ), which is India's independent regional navigation satellite system, previously known as the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS). NVS...

If you can resonate with terms like blackhole, universe, multiverse, white-hole, final theory of everything, string theory, the mind of God, etc. then this video by Prof Michio Kaku on The Future of Humanity is for you. 

These are the basic specs of three computing devices that I used during different periods of my lifetime:

With the mineral exploration in space becoming an extremely lucrative business, will the Indian private companies wait for the enactment of India's Space Law ? And should they? On January 22, 2013, Deep Space Industries announced plans for a fleet of spacecraft whose job will be to harvest the rich resources found in asteroids.