SRO to build orbiter for NASA
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T.S. Subramanian
SRIHARIKOTA: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has asked the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to build an orbiter that will provide the communication between the soil samples collected from the far side of the moon and the earth, according to ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan.
This joint venture between the ISRO and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, would be part of the Moonrise missions planned by the NASA.
“This project is in the planning phase, alongside India's lunar mission programme centred on Chandrayaan-2,” he said.
The ISRO would provide an orbiting communicator to the NASA for this mission, scheduled for 2016.
Chandrayaan-2 would be put in an orbit around the moon by a Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) in 2013 and the project would cost Rs.462 crore, Mr. Radhakrishnan said. It would be a joint mission with Russia: while the spacecraft and the rover would be built by India, the lander would be from Russia.
The two-member committee the Centre had appointed to go into the allocation of the S-band spectrum to private company Devas by ISRO's commercial arm Antrix Corporation had submitted its report. The government would give it to the ISRO, which would act on it, he said.
Salman Khan will do anything for Zarine
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The much talked about Character Dheela song initially meant for Jacqueline Fernandes with a small step-in by Zarine was turned into the latter's number by the leading man himself. Salman gave out strict orders to the unit saying that it should only be Zarine rubbing shoulders with him.
Attributing Jacqueline's sudden disappearance from the song to 'date issues', a source from the film revealed, "Salman ne kaha ki Zarine ko lena hai. And who can argue with Salman? So, Zarine it was."
The source also went on to add, "It is known that Salman has a soft corner for Zarine. Add this to his helpful nature and you get the complete picture. In other words, Salman ne kisike sar pe haath rakh diya, toh woh uske liye kuch bhi karega."
It maybe recalled that Salman had no inhibitions entering Aamir Khan's house with Zarine in tow. At the party thrown for Academy Award-winning Argentinian music composer Gustavo Santaolalla, who was working on Kiran Rao's directorial debut Dhobi Ghat, he and Zarine had walked in together at 12.28 am (Mumbai Mirror, June 21, 2010).
When asked about the real reason of her not being in Ready, Jacqueline chose not to reply. Director of Ready, Anees Bazmee too remained unavailable for comment.
