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Shaping Strategies for Space Encounters - An Assessment
Lt Gen (Dr) V K Saxena (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Brief Premise

This article flows out from the following three developments that took place in the recent past”:-

  1. On 27 Mar 2019, India conducted Mission Shakti, an anti satellite missile test destroying a live satellite in...

    August 14, 2019 Article, Harnessing space, India’s satellite assets, India’s space ventures, Technological and Scientific Studies
A Look at the Boeing-Bloomberg’s Bloomer on 737 Max Aircraft
Sridhar Vembu

A Bloomer!

In claiming that cheap Indian coders brought down the plane, here is the actual Bloomberg headline: ‘Boeing’s 737 Max Software Out-sourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers’(...

July 22, 2019 737 Max crash, Article, Bloomberg’s propaganda article, Boeing management’s gaffe, Technological and Scientific Studies
What Can India Learn from China’s ‘Indigenous Innovation’ Policies
Dr Kapil Patil

In recent years, ‘indigenous innovation’ has become the buzzword in China’s industrial paradigm for promoting the development of Chinese domestic standards and technologies. Outlined in the 2006 National Medium-and Long-Term Program for Science...

July 2, 2019 Article, Industrial innovation, Innovation for progress, Promotion of innovation, Technological and Scientific Studies
27 मार्च 2019 का ए-सैट परीक्षण
Dr Sheel Kant Sharma, PhD

भारत ने आखिरकार उपग्रह रोधी प्रौद्योगिकी (ए-सैट) का परीक्षण कर ही लिया। भारत की क्षमता दर्शाने के लिए यह परीक्षण काफी पहले से किया जाना था और वह प्रदर्शन आधुनिक प्रौद्योगिकियों के संदर्भ में किया गया। यह जमीन से करीब 300 किलोमीटर ऊपर पृथ्वी की...

June 7, 2019 Article, Hindi, उपग्रह रोधी ए-सैट, भारत का अंतरिक्ष क्षमता, भारत का मिसाइल रक्षा, Technological and Scientific Studies
Chinese Companies Marching to Lead in Digital Economy
Dr Kamlesh Bajaj

Freedom of Expression Invoked by a Chinese Company Tik-Tok – Strange but True!

Byte-Dance, a Chinese company, is one of the most valued start-ups at $75 billion with investors that include Soft-Bank. It is reported to have been funded...

May 19, 2019 China’s digital Global reach, Madras HC order, Tik-Tok ban, Commentary, Technological and Scientific Studies
5G - Deliberating the Pros and Cons
Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Data Pipe-Line of the Future

Major telecom companies of the world are working feverishly to roll-out 5G or 5th Generation technology based advanced wireless systems. This will increase the speed of data transmission, will have faster...

April 25, 2019 5G, Internet Security, IOT in India, Commentary, Technological and Scientific Studies
The Inevitable Security Dilemma of the Space
Radhika Daga

The space age began with the launch of Sputnik in 1957 by the erstwhile USSR and transpired to be an eminent infrastructure to back the nuclear and conventional military capabilities of the two super powers in the cold war era, as it assuaged the...

April 18, 2019 Article, ASAT weapons, India’s Mission Shakti, space security, Technological and Scientific Studies
Bull’s Eye - Chak De India
Lt General Davinder Kumar, PVSM, VSM Bar, ADC (Retd.)

27 March, 2019 will go down as the most memorable day of this decade when India demonstrated an indigenous and operational Anti-Satellite Technology (ASAT) System, the fourth nation to do so in the world after USA, Russia and China. The DRDO and...

April 1, 2019 Indian space technology, India’s ASAT, Commentary, Technological and Scientific Studies
The ASAT Test of 27 March 2019
Dr Sheel Kant Sharma, PhD

India has finally done an Anti-Satellite Technology (ASAT) test. This was overdue as a demonstration of India’s capability – and that demonstration was done in the context of technologies of present day. The test was of a ‘kinetic kill’ of an...

April 1, 2019 National Security and Strategic Studies, Article, Indian ASAT, India’s successful ASAT test, Technological and Scientific Studies
Breakthrough towards Resolving Century Old Riddle of Deadly Thunderstorms by a Muon Telescope in India
Prof Sunil Gupta

Thunderstorms are frightening and a spectacular demonstration of one of the most violent phenomenon in our atmosphere. Nearly three centuries back in 1749, Benjamin Franklin through his famous kite-experiment during a thunderstorm showed that the...

March 19, 2019 India’s Muon telescope, thunderstorm energy, Commentary, Technological and Scientific Studies
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