Job Opening in ISRO

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Announcement about the Job Opening in Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).


Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is the government of India Undertaking organization which is involved in space research and development programs of India. In ISRO applications are invited for scientist and engineering cadres in disciplines of Electronics, mechanical and computer science.


Age limit for applying

To apply for engineering positions in ISRO the candidate must be below 35 years of age on 28.02.2011. Reservations available for S.C, S.T, OBC and ex-service men.


Educational Qualification

To apply for engineering positions in ISRO, the candidates must posses a B.E or B.Tech with an average of 65 percent. Final year students can also apply subject to certain conditions.


Selection Process

Candidates are shortlisted based on the educational qualifications. The examinations are conducted in Chennai, Trivandrum and Bangalore on 16.04.2011.
Candidates clearing the examinations would be invited for the personal interview.

For further details visit: www.isro.org/scripts/job.aspx 

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Remote Sensing Resourcesat By ISRO in February

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is getting ready to launch Resourcesat 2, a remote sensing earth observation satellite, by the end of February, officials said on Monday.

Remote sensing satellites send back pictures and other data for various uses. India is a major player in providing such data in the global market.

The satellites will be carried by the ISRO's polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV). The launch will be between February 20-25 in the morning.

The PSLV will also be carrying two other smallsatellites made in Singapore and Russia.

The remote sensing satellites currently operational are: Resourcesat-1, Cartosat-2B, Oceansat-2, RISAT-2, Cartosat-2A, IMS-1, Cartosat-2, Resourcesat-1 and TES.

For some time Resourcesat-2 and Resourcesat-1 will work together before the later is fully replaced, the official said.

Compared to Resourcesat-1, the multispectral swath of Resourcesat-2 has been enhanced from 23 km to 70 km based on user needs.

Suitable changes, including miniaturization in payload electronics, have been incorporated in Resourcesat-2, said the official. IANS

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Nano Satellite Design Launche By Chennai students

The students from the SRM University, some 40 km from the capital city, have been working on the project 'SRMSAT' since 2008. The satellite weighing just 10 kg is being developed under the guidance of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) at a cost of Rs.1 crore. With climate change becoming a cause of serious concern globally, the satellite will monitor GHG - mainly carbon dioxide - in the atmosphere.

A grating spectrometer is employed for monitoring earth-based sources and sinks of anthropogenic and natural sources of GHG. The students from 12 disciplines of engineering in the university have been working closely with the ISRO to develop the nano satellite. According to Loganathan, the students are very passionate about the project and would work on it after their classes.

"Their classes get over by 4 p.m. and after that all of them hang on in the research laboratory for say till midnight to work on the nano satellite. It's their baby and an outcome of their hard work," he said. The ISRO said the satellite has to be tested before it can be included as a payload. The students have been wholly involved in the project, right from procuring components to assembling and testing the satellite. "Whenever we get some time, maybe over lunch or dinner or during weekends, our point of discussion is only SRMSAT. Each one of us enjoys talking about it and our sessions go on for hours.

There is nobody junior or senior but a team, and our mantra is value for thought. A first year student can also give a good piece of advice to the group," said Anushree Mahapatra, a student of electronic and information engineering. The conception of SRMSAT dates back to August 2008 when the vision of launching a student satellite was put forward at a seminar taken by eminent space scientist D. Raghavamurty. In 2010, ISRO launched Studsat -- a tiny satellite built by 35 students from four engineering colleges in Bangalore and three in Hyderabad -- which can take pictures of the earth from space, helping in weather forecasting.

During the golden jubilee celebrations of IIT-Kanpur last year, President Pratibha Patil handed over to the ISRO a nano satellite 'Jugnu' developed by students of the country's premier institution. Other institutes have got in the act as well. A 3.5-kg satellite 'Pradhan' is being built by students of IIT-Mumbai. Students of Sathyabhama University, Chennai, are also working on a nano satellite.

In Vellore Institute of Technology University (VITU), Vellore, the students have designed the TubeSat, which is a pico-satellite, weighing less than 1 kg. IANS

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ISRO Gears Up For GSAT Launch On Dec 25

Indian space scientists are gearing up for the Dec 25 launch of the advanced communications satellite GSAT-5P. The new entrant will retire INSAT-2E sent up in 1999 and will ensure continuity of telecom, television and weather services.

"The countdown will begin Friday 11.04 a.m. and the rocket will be launched at 4.04 p.m. Saturday," S. Satish, director at Indian Space ResearchOrganization (ISRO), told the sources.

The rocket launch, originally scheduled for Monday, was aborted by ISRO sunday when it detected a leak in one of the valves of the Russian-made cryogenic engine.

Subsequently ISRO and the Russian scientists held detailed tests to check the stability of the faulty valve.

The space agency decided on Wednesday to go ahead with the launch as the test results were satisfactory.

According to ISRO officials the weather in Sriharikota is clear and they do not expect any change in plans. IANS

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Heaviest Satellite For Telecom By ISRO

Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) were set to launch their heaviest satellite from near here on Monday to retire an old one sent up in 1999 and ensure continuity of telecom, TV and weather services, officials said.

Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) were set to launch their heaviest satellite from near here on Monday to retire an old one sent up in 1999 and ensure continuity of telecom, TV and weather services, officials said.

The launch vehicle is 51 metres tall, weighs 418 tonnes and costs around Rs.175 crore (Rs.1.75 billion). The satellite, with a payload of 2,310 kg, has a price tag of Rs.125 crore.

ISRO has till date sent up six GSLV rockets with satellites, of which only two missions were full successes and one a partial victory. The rest could not accomplish their mission of slinging the satellite into their intended path of orbit.

The 2007 flight was considered a partial success and the April 2010 flight carrying the GSAT-4 satellite is considered historic as the rocket's cryogenic engine, too, was made in-house by the space agency. They were using Russian-made cryogenic engines earlier.

The Dec 22 launch will again be on a Russian engine.

Unfortunately, the April 2010 mission failed as the rocket fell into the Bay of Bengal due to a malfunction in the indigenous cryogenic engine. ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan had then said the next launch with an Indian engine will be within a year.

The latest has a payload of 2,310 kg, with 36 transponders -- an automatic receiver and transmitter of communication or broadcast signals. A successful launch of the satellite will take the agency's transponder capacity to around 235 from 200 in orbit now. IANS

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