This blog will have a mirror blog setup by me on Blogger: http://paraspaces.blogspot.com. This is where I used to blog about a year or so ago. I’ve cleaned that up to put more space blog posts. I was considering removing this blog, but later decided to just mirror this blog in that one.
Category: Space
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A Few Links…
It’s really very funny experience if you want to blog about space. You love the subject. You can talk for hours, given the chance, but to write a good blog post will take you days and days.
Well, all said and done, I have nothing useful to add today. Here are some links –
1. India’s Chandrayaan-I project scheduled for departure on 30 March, 2008. Chandrayaan-II coming up in 2010.
2. The recent testing of SRE and the launch of 3 sats together on the PSLV-C7.
3.India’s best offering in terms of images of the Earth from space – CARTOSAT-2. -
Yuri’s Night
Well, some sort of order has been done. All the things that I wanted sorted are sort of, sorted.
We’d like to hold an event called Yuri’s Night in India. Any ideas? Any thoughts?
Yuri’s Night is an event held across the globe to commemorate the first man in space – Yuri Gagarin. Any ideas, anyone ready to give us a place to do the event, that would be great.
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Interesting Stuff from ISRO
India has today announced the launching of its own navigation satellite system. The date for the launch of Chandrayaan-I has also been announced as 30 March, 2008. Mark the date in your calendars.
There has also been talks of having a lunar lander by 2020. Interesting stuff coming from ISRO.
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Korolev’s Centenary Celebrations
Note: I wrote this on my earlier blog hosted as https://blogs.seds.org/pradeep. I recovered the text from the WayBack Machine. This post appeared on February 08, 2007 as per the timestamp. I’m trying to collect here again all my old writings spread on various blogs.
I attended the Korolev centenary celebrations yesterday. Started of like all Indian events do – with the lighting of the lamp. There was a photo exhibition that we walked through. Lot of cool pics – the early control rooms that the Soviet’s useds, their rockets, their launch pads and ofcourse, Korolev himself.
A couple of lectures later, we had some Indian twist in the form of screening the SRE mission. I didn’t post about the SRE here.
It happened on 22nd January, 2007. India tested its indigenously developed re-entry technology along with the launch of 4 satellites on board the PSLV-C7. SRE stands for Space Vehicle Re-entry Experiment. You’ll find a good deal more in the ISRO website.
Well, the Korolev evening ended with Cocktails. Since, I don’t drink, I settled for a Coke. Well, had a good time.
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Korolev’s Birth Centenary
Note: I wrote this on my earlier blog hosted as https://blogs.seds.org/pradeep. I recovered the text from the WayBack Machine. This post appeared on February 05, 2007 as per the timestamp. I’m trying to collect here again all my old writings spread on various blogs.
It’s a time for personal upheveal. I am not able to write anything in my main blog. But, have lots of work related to space.
Coming up later this week, I’ve been invited to attend the birth centenary of Sergei Korolev. He’s the man responsible for the first satellite and the first man in space – Yuri Gagarin for which you guys get to party on Yuri’s Night.
Let’s see how things go from there on.
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SEDS-Earth blogging
EDS Earth, the international chapter of SEDS has decided to do a bit of an experiment. They’ve asked people from 5 chapters (initially) to write a blog post every week. We haven’t tried such a thing yet. Let’s see how it works. Want to know where the SEDS blog is? Here it is – http://blogs.seds.org/sedsearth.
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Space Projects
Note: I wrote this on my earlier blog hosted as https://pradx.wordpress.com. I recovered the text from the WayBack Machine. This post appeared on December 6, 2006 as per the permalink. I’m trying to collect here again all my old writings spread on various blogs.
I am involved in a satellite project. It’s actually not such an alien thing to do. There are more than 50+ satellites currently under construction and ready to be sent all around the globe. All this is under the CubeSat project that was started by Califoria Polytechnic. My appreciation for such projects. There are also numerous others bigger satellites under development. So, how’s ours different?
We’re students. We’re all in one organisation. But we all live in different countries. So, what do we hope to do? Research – Construct – Assemble and Launch. Straight forward to listen to. Here’s the fun part. We build parts of the satellite in different parts of the world. So, one country builds the outer structure. The other builds internal structure, another solders the communications circuits and so on. Well, the satellite is no good in parts, is it? So, we bring it all to one place and we put it together. Take it to a launch pad and launch it.
We’ve been discussing it since 2005 as a technical project in which we can all be physically and not Internet-ly involved. Sending emails and IMs are now passe. Collaborate with others across the globe and build stuff.
I hope some car enthusiasts group from different countries can build a global car. They can release the manufacturing notes and let anyone with resources build a car for themselves. The experience of driving in a car you build is totally different and very very few people have experienced it. And don’t stick to cars either. Try to do this across other stuff as well.
All this is a great way to network. You know these people are serious and not just bluffing with you. Also, you get to meet new people. Learn to trust each other. Who knows, maybe one day we can have peaceful co-existence that we have been trying to achieve for the past 2000 years.
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Recent Going Ons
Between researching for SEDSAT 2 and learning for my exams, writing was a bit of pain for me. I’ve read about 15 technical papers over the past days. Half of it like greek and latin for me. But, I did understand some stuff. I found the University of Arizona documentation to be one of the best satellite documentation. Hopefully we can top that with the SEDSAT 2 project.
Lot’s going in the world of space science. I just haven’t kept up with all the stuff in my aggregator which says: Google Reader (100+), which basically means I have more than 100 posts to read. Thankfully, it doesn’t show specifics. I might faint looking at something like: Google Reader (1067). Hope all are fine. I read the Space Culture post about the book: “Sex in Space”. Might not actually get around to reading that book, though.
Parallel Spirals 