Sleep…..The gateway to dream land

I placed my head on the pillow of the bed. The atmosphere is cold and squeezing. My body is paining with all the tiredness because of the hard work in the office. Nothing is going-on in the mind. The mind just wanted to go away from this world. My eyes are getting heavy and the eyelids are becoming so heavy that keeping them open is like doing a weightlifting in the Olympics. And finally the eyelids won and they took me as a prisoner. The mind is loosen from my grip & got the freedom to run away from the real world. The eyelids became the guards for the world of mind and took all measures so that I can’t escape from their prison. I decided to face whatever happens in the future because I am helpless being a prisoner and well guarded in the world of mind with no possibility of escaping in near future. The journey begins, first I made to fell asleep and all the issues, pains and worries related to the real world are being taken from my pockets and the almighty Mind ordered its guards to through them out of its premises. Then the angels of the world of Mind took me in their possession and took me to a world, called “The Dream land”. It’s the land with no fears, no limits, no pain, no loss, and no gain. Then with order from Almighty Mind, the Angels cuffed me with a dream, a dream of me being in a beach with my most loved ones, enjoying the moment. The time has been made to pause. The layers of water sailing like a waves of music. The feel of water touching our feet’s like velvet on our feet’s. The sun is just touching the surface of water and creating a moment like the sea is in a playing mood and is about to through a yellow ball towards us and we need to be ready to catch it. The sky is turned into golden carpet as it is been spread in the honors of a princess about to land. Then suddenly there is a huge siren goes wildly in the whole dream land. The Angels rushed me before Almighty Mind of Dream land. During the course of travelling I am looking back at the beach, I don’t want to go, but I have been forced. Then the Almighty Mind ordered the guards to through me out of the prison, to the world “The real world”, the word of lie, and world of pain, world of hate and world of loss. As soon as I been dragged by the guards to the gate of the prison, the gate guards opened the gate and thrown me out. And my eyelids open and it’s my Mobile, it is buzzing and it’s the alarm…..!

I got out of bed hesitantly to face the reality of real world. And with the hope that I will be taken back to the prison of “Dream land” soon because of fresh crimes I will do today.

Indo-US nuclear Deal

For last six to seven months the Headlines in the all the Major News papers in India is about Indo-US Nuclear Deal, whether it’s about Hyde act, opposition by opposition parties or INC – Left party meetings or the proving of Majority by Government. And now about the ongoing meeting of NSG group for the approval of deal.

But the question is why government is giving so much importance to the deal…?
What’s in it…..? Why it is so significant to India. ..?

After 1970 nuclear test by India there is lot of sanctions imposed by the other countries which also involves “not to supply uranium & not to transfer nuclear technology”. So this sanction made India handicap in implementing Nuclear energy development at large scale & it became out of reach from new cutting edge technology in nuclear energy development.
The energy requirement at present situation in India is enormous with higher industrial growth & growing lifestyle of the people. So it’s inevitable to increase the power production at rapid pace in coming years.

India’s major power source is Hydro project. But as Hydro projects demands large rehabilitation of civilians & it creates the threat to large forest area.

The second largest power production mode is Thermal Power production. This mode involves highest pollution creation. There are lots of efforts going on worldwide to curb greenhouse gases emission, and this method will be a setback for the efforts.

The option left out is clean & safe energy methods. So the best option available is Nuclear Power production method which will be cleaner & safer (with proper measures taken).
So to meet the growing needs of power nuclear deal is essential & inevitable for India. After the deal India can seek nuclear material from different countries & also there is all possibility that India will get new technology transfers from developed countries.

So If you look at the advantages of the nuclear energy, the Indo – US nuclear will turn out to be in favor of India. And now as India been allowed to Conduct Nuclear test without being violated the agreement, it will be a added advantage. As the deal is in last phases of conclusion & approval, hope it will turn out to be in favor of India & India will develop at rapid pace in coming years without energy crisis.

Life span of satellites

India is all set to launch its maiden Moon Exploration Mission Chandrayan-1 and every Indian is very thrilled & excited about the same.
But here I would like to discuss about the life span of satellites.


Like every starting has a ending in the universe, the satellites also will die after specific span of time which is called “Life Span”. For example; The scheduled “Chandrayan-1” mission’s life is 2 Years.
The life span of satellites depends largely on their size, or to be precise , it depends on how much liquid fuel they carry aboard . The liquid fuel is used to operate small rocket engines, the rocket engines are very important for the satellite (there are three types of forces acting on the satellite in space causing the satellite to deviate from its course). The ground station on earth uses these small rockets to perform maneuvers necessary to keep the satellite in the same position in the sky (usually they perform two maneuvers every two weeks, north-south maneuver & east-west maneuver). So we can direct our antenna's here at earth(parabolic reflectors or dish) to this specific point in space & receive the broadcasted TV & radio channels & also to send tele-commands from the ground station on earth to control the satellite , otherwise we need a special type of antenna's (half a billion US$ each) to track & locate the satellite.

The largest satellites out there are the communication satellites (tv, radio, telephony) & they use the geostationary orbit (about 36,000 km above sea level & above the equator) & the satellite orbit around the earth depends on the speed of the satellite, once the satellite is delivered to its orbit by the rocket it was carried on, the satellite will take that orbit speed, comm. sat. also have the longest life span (it’s a round 17 to 20yrs these days) , before the satellite runs out of fuel , the ground station performs one last maneuver to send the satellite to a place called “satellite graveyard”. It’s an orbit around the earth used to retire old useless satellites & they become junk on space, a growing problem, this is when in it come to satellites using the geostationary orbit , for satellites using lower orbits they may be put on re-entry course so they burn before they reach the earth.

Waste moons - The Dead Satellies

Till 3rd October 1957 Our Earth had only one satellite, that’s the moon.
But on 4th October 1957 man added a sibling to moon, “Sputnik-1” the first artificial satellite. Since then space science has developed at unbelievable pace. The result is, there are approximately 2465 satellites orbiting the earth and every year number of countries launching their satellites by their own facility or with the help of other launch capable countries
(Remember the recent landmark India set by launching 10 satellites at a time.....!)

But out of all the satellites out there only around 570 satellites are active presently that is 7% of total satellites in space
So what I was wondering is what happens to all other satellites …?? Where are they..? Are they dead…?
Yes every satellite has its own life span which varies from months to years. The maximum life span of the satellites achieved presently is about 20 years. (The scheduled chandrayan-1 satellites life span is 2 years). So what happen to them after the set life span?

There are two methods presently countries are using to dump the waste / dead satellites
1. The satellites will be moved to the earth’s atmosphere which is called as “re-entry Course” where during entering the earth’s atmosphere the satellite will get burned out. But sometimes the satellite will not get completely burned and the un-burnt debris will reach the earth (like an asteroid). In this case there is possibility of damage to the property or life of citizens. But all the care will be taken by the space bodies that, in cases when the satellite debris not completely burned it will fall in to sea
2. In the most common method the dead satellites will move into the orbit called “graveyard orbit”. This orbit is about few miles above the “geocentric orbit” where maximum satellites will be placed. The satellite which is in its final stage of life span will be moved to this area so that it can be dumped without affecting the other active satellites.
3. And the newest technology to get rid of dead satellites is to destroy them in space. You might have heard about the recent china’s anti satellite missile test. In this case the satellite will be targeted from the ground and will be attacked by a missile which will destroy the dead satellite.

So as everything has an end in the universe, satellites are also die. And before their death they had done their best to the purpose. Look like man is the only creature who doesn’t give his best of his target….!
Thank you satellites for helping, us to use all the cutting-edge technologies. May god rest you all in peace.

UFO- The Flying Saucers

When I was travelling back to my room in our company cab as usual the sky was clear, no major clouds, no possibility of rain, the sun was dripping down creating a golden carpet with the use of tiny cloud pockets. I was enjoying the sky picture, suddenly I saw a plane passing through the golden carpet & suddenly got a thought of UFO’s

UFO’s the so called Unidentified Flying Objects. I wonder all the stories about UFO’s are real…??

During 2007 in Britain alone there are reports of about more than 100 incidents of UFO’s observation. If we look into the history of UFO’s and the research work carried out by US in 50’s there are nothing so called UFO’s.

But with the exploration of universes, new galaxies, new planets etc we can clearly imagine that universe is infinite. As the scientists have uncovered the existence of galaxies which are bigger than our milky way, with the stars 1000 times bigger than our own Sun, we cannot rule out the existence of earth’s twin. And meantime we cannot rule out the existence of far superior, intelligent, powerful & technologically advanced creature in the universe.

I have a friend who uses to describe that, for us atom is a smallest object in the world. But if you compare the atom and our solar system they resembles. Atom consists of nucleus around which electrons revolve; the nucleus is the energy reservoir. Similarly our solar system consists sun as nucleus and the planets including our earth revolve around the sun (The nucleus). Isn’t it so real…?
But what does that mean- Is the earth is a part of an atom for somebody else. Is we are a part of smallest particles for somebody….!!!

I am not going to tell that we are as small as fraction of an electron, But if we go through the comparison we are negligible are nonexistent in the infinite universe.

So when you next time here about UFO’s think before say “Common- Grow up “

Chandrayaan - The Mission to Moon

India is always lagging behind the so called developed countries in 2 fields-

One is sports
Second is science and technology.

The whole world knows that Indian contribution is huge in the history of science and technology.
But after been ruled by Britisher’s for more than 200 years and after getting freedom in 1947 the priority of India has been completely changed. We can justify that with the situation the country undergone.

But for last 15 years India is developing steadily, thanks to the liberalization concept during 90’s. But the development is not up to the potential and requirement of situation.
One of the milestones India is going to set in October 2008 is very remarkable and boosting for the whole nation. The budding youngsters will certainly be motivated to get into the core science field rather than running behind software, hardware, BPO & call centers.

About the mission to MOON:
Mission Name: Chandrayaan -1
Chandra means MOON, and yaan means VEHICLE
Some of the facts of chandrayaan are
 The Idea of Chandrayaan evolved in 1999
 National Lunar Mission Task Force created by ISRO in 2000
 Chandrayaan-1 got approval in November 2003
 The planned mission date is October 2008.
 The travel time of shuttle is 5.5 days
 The total budget of Chandrayaan-1 Rs.3800-million
 launch will be executed from Sriharikota
 Two Mini Synthetic Aperture Radar (Mini SAR) of NASA been used in Chandrayaan-1
 The launching Vehicle is PSLV
 The Indian payloads on board Chandrayaan-1 include:
o a Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC)
o a Hyper Spectral Imager (HySI)
o a High-Energy X-ray spectrometer (HEX)
o a Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument (LLRI) and
o a Moon Impact Probe (MIP)
Some of historical points in MOON’s exploration:
 The first leap in Lunar observation was made by Galileo Galilei who used his new invention the telescope to observe mountains and craters on the lunar surface.

 The first man-made object to reach the Moon was the unmanned Soviet probe Luna 2 in September 1959

 Humans first landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969. The first man to walk on the lunar surface was Neil Armstrong

 The last man to walk on the Moon was in December 1972 by Eugene Cernan during Apollo 17 mission.

Being a Space science follower, I really feel happy and proud that India is setting such a landmark. Really 2008 is turning out to be a great year for Indian history as India created history in Olympics & now about to create a landmark in history of space science. Hope these 2 events will lead Indian progress in coming years in sports and science.

I really want to see India being termed as superpower before I die.

For further details Visit the official website: www.isro.org/chandrayaan-1