Can ISRO overtake NASA ?

Having already given leadership to the world in the space race by giving "cost innovative" and tech innovative solutions (slingshot tech in Mars orbiter mission), ISRO is just a couple of years of overtaking NASA. Having overtaken China and European countries, it is already raising eyebrows world over !!. Those who underestimated India's potential and left for greener pastures are having a rethink.

The $2.5 billion Mars Rover Curiosity is NASA's greatest pain .. NASA is just playing with money, not wisely though.

Unless NASA learns cost innovation, they are bound to be doomed like their Apollo and Space Shuttle missions ..

Wishing ISRO great success in giving "leadership to the world in space exploration for the benefit of mankind" in the new year and the coming years !

With rapid strides in communication and natural resource exploitation, combined with accurate weather prediction, navigational guidance and disaster prevention, who knows what's in store for mankind if he exploits space some more ?

Ge..

US gives Pak a free pass and $1 billion

US gives Pak a free pass and $1 billion

a pity that US never wants peace to return to Pakistan or to Indo-pak borders.

By ensuring that the Haqqani group of AlQaeda (bad taliban) is contained on its northen borders with Afghanistan and doing nothing to contain the LeT and LeJ (good taliban) groups in Punjab on Pak's India borders, US is playing into the hands of Pak military and intelligence, much to the shock and surprise of India.

By promoting and covertly funding Pakistan ( on borrowed funds) as the epicentre of global terrorism, US is sadly risking its own stand as wellwisher of global peace and interests vis-a-vis selfish interests of fishing in troubled waters.

Indeed, birds of the same feather, flock together ! Its high time India understood its real wellwishers and enemies who are out to block its economic march to global economic and technoligical leadership of the world !

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/US-gives-Pakistan-a-free-pass-and-1-billion-by-ignoring-LeT-LeJ/articleshow/45653941.cms via @timesofindia

A merry xmas ..

With Ramesh san Toyota .. 2013.

why it is difficult to innovate ?

Great article .. 

Courtesy Prof Edward Hess, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, US.

Helps to understand what we usually call by innovation, why innovation is not that  common and why people are afraid of applying innovation in their work environments.

The author from Uty of Virginia Darden School of Business tells that by removing the fear of failure and looking at failures as learning opportunities,by instilling a culture of "idea meritocracy", an innovation environment can be created in organisations.

Idea meritocracy means ideas are discussed for their merit and not on who raised it. This was considered to be one of the reasons for the success of ISRO as has been mentioned by one of their senior scientists, P. Kunhikrishnan, while giving a talk at Alliance University, Bangalore.

As Prof Hess mentions, humility, empathy and devaluation of the heirarchical rank were critical to making the new culture of innovation to work in an organisation. Creating the right organisational environment, which fosters critical thinking, innovative thinking irrespective of the heirarchy is crucial to success of an innovation programme.

george..

ISRO - LVM3-X .

ISRO - Indian Space Research Organisation

ISRO's LVM 3 X flight is planned on December 18, 2014. (GSLV Mk III, experimental launch)

Experimental flight of LVM-3 will carry active Solid boosters (S200s), Liquid core stage (L110) and a passive Cryogenic stage (C25).

The primary objective of this experimental flight is to validate the complex atmospheric ascent regime of this all new launcher, especially the aerodynamic and control features that cannot be conclusively tested on ground.

In this sub-orbital flight, the launcher would climb to an altitude of about 125 km. Taking advantage of this opportunity, a CARE (Crew-module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment) Module is planned to be injected at this altitude. This module has been realized to validate a number of technologies developed under ISRO’s “Critical Technologies for Human Spaceflight Programme”. This Module is planned to be recovered from the Bay of Bengal after the splash down.

Good luck ISRO ..

Taliban massacre children at school

Pakistani army and civilian establishment should realise at least at this stage that they were playing with fire all this while !! Even though we feel sorry  for the incident and the grieving patents, at least this last time Pakistan govt, its military and intelligence agencies should realise that it cannot live on violence. Violence is a double edged sword !! Violence begets more violence !

Pakistan is suffering from the years of military dictatorship it has endured over the years  and the growth of militant groups supported by the army and civilian establishment !

" Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance." - Benazir Bhutto

Taliban massacre children at school

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-30491435