I love steam engines.

As a kid, I did not understand Satyajit Ray's Apu-trilogy.

I watched the movie only for the trains!

Aviator Anil Chopra Arun Golaya Sameer Joshi Nikunj Parashar Anupam Prasad Satyam Kushwaha,Director IndianSpaceAssociation RK Narang Overall an exceptionally intrusive draft inserting CEMILAC/DGAQA into every (literally every) step of any D&D process. Runs completely counter to the concept behind all the foreign ‘standards’ they would be referencing. Won’t enable or support new technologies. Retrograde.

3 MQ-9 Reapers worth ~100 million have been shot down by Iranian proxies, Houthis in 6 months. India is spending 3.99 billion to purchase inferior export version of this drone for ops against much better armed adversaries.

For reference, budget for Rustom R&D is USD 210 million.

Some serious eyecandy and food for thought.

Suryakiran Aerobatic Team

What a collection!

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Not sure whether to be proud or sad about this!

Retire those Avros! They are too old!

More composites. This time SiC coated C-C composite RLV-nose cone & PS4 engine nozzle divergent, fasteners and SiC mirrors for satellite applications. Note the varying composite structures for different applications.

I have read this book. Well researched.

The easiest thing to 'build' a college is the building. The most difficult challenge is to get good faculty. Why would the best teachers come to swanky new building to teach?

The Angara family has always made a lot of sense to me. I have always wondered why there is no family for our LVM3. The core and second stage is almost identical to the Angara family.

Temperatures have gone upwards early, some beautiful blue skies in the spring, the ‘Jhelum Loop’ in Srinagar with the majestic Pir Panjal mountains peeking from a distance ⁦kirpy⁩ ⁦Mohonto Panging⁩ ⁦Savita Ghai⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦Nature Desai⁩

Hamlet No sir. GTRE 'failure' should be acknowledged with other failures. That latter is quickly swept away because it is easy to point fingers at the civilian scientists.

Like any profession a functional scientist is prepared through years of practice.

Spent 2 weeks in Niti village, Uttarakhand in 2022. It's the last Indian settlement near Indo-Tibet border & was a popular stop before 1962 war closed trade route.
Locals said, 'Call us 1st village of India, not last.' I've visited many such villages, felt nice to hear this line

View of the solar eclipse from a Starlink satellite on orbit

This was a great read for me. Now new information. But the viewpoints were so refreshingly different from what I have read.

Also, it is a great example of how to write.

License production cannot be 'whitewashed' & 'whitelabelled' as IDDM. Period.