MRO

Airbus Partners With Hindustan Aeronautics Limited To Lead MRO Industry In India

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited will now enter the aircraft servicing industry with its new partnership with Airbus, which is trying to tap the MRO industry in India.

Nov 09, 2023, 18:54 PM IST

NASA photographs Mars InSight lander from space

The InSight lander of NASA, hovering around the red planet clicked stunning images through HiRISE of the exact landing location.   

 

Dec 18, 2018, 10:46 AM IST

Boeing signs nearly $1 bn of services deals, eyes $50 bn target

The jet manufacturer has been looking to boost revenue in its services business which involves jet maintenance, repair and overhaul, data analytics and pilot training.

Feb 06, 2018, 15:43 PM IST

'Flowing' water on Mars could actually be sand, reveals study

The study is based on observations made with the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Nov 22, 2017, 08:32 AM IST

Where does Mars get its sand from? This is probably where its produced

The grains of sand that make up sand dunes on Earth and Mars have a hazardous existence because of the way that they travel. 

Oct 11, 2017, 11:14 AM IST

Fading winter on Mars shows dry ice effect on dunes in the form of 'beautiful patterns' – See pic

Captured on May 21, 2017, at 13:21 local Mars time during spring in Mars' Northern hemisphere, the image shows how over the winter, snow and ice have inexorably covered the dunes.

Aug 25, 2017, 12:30 PM IST

Up above Mars so high: NASA's MRO captures Curiosity scaling the Martian surface! - See pic

The image was taken on June 5, 2017, two months before the fifth anniversary of Curiosity's landing near Mount Sharp on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6, 2017, EDT and Universal Time).

Jun 23, 2017, 13:09 PM IST

NASA shares beautiful winter's view of gullied crater on Martian surface

The US space agency NASA has released a beautiful winter's view of a gullied crater in Mars' northern hemisphere.

Apr 20, 2017, 00:08 AM IST

Spotted – Mysterious secondary craters observed on Mars

The image was captured by the agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) that has been studying the Red Planet's atmosphere and terrain from orbit since 2006.

Apr 19, 2017, 17:16 PM IST

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter completes 50,000th orbit of Red Planet

The orbiter, which is the most data-productive spacecraft yet at Mars, continues to compile the most sharp-eyed global coverage ever accomplished by a camera at the Red Planet.

Mar 30, 2017, 14:33 PM IST

NASA's Mars orbiter spots massive dust storms bigger than US swelling on Red Planet - Watch

Images from the orbiter's wide-angle Mars Color Imager (MARCI) show each storm growing in the Acidalia area of northern Mars, then blowing southward and exploding to sizes bigger than the United States after reaching the southern hemisphere.

Mar 10, 2017, 16:48 PM IST

Layers and dark dunes on Martian surface as seen by HiRISE camera

NASA says colors are enhanced in the cutout of a pit exposing reddish layers. 

Feb 24, 2017, 16:51 PM IST

Summer on Red Planet - New image from HiRISE reveals dune field formed near base of the North Polar cap (See pic)

As per NASA, the image was taken during the Martian northern summer, so there is no frost present on the dunes. 

Feb 03, 2017, 09:25 AM IST

This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a streamlined form in Lethe Vallis – See pic!

The image was acquired at 15:16 local Mars time on May 6, 2016, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Sep 14, 2016, 09:04 AM IST

Mars had climate suitable for life four billion years ago

Since the 1970s, scientists have identified valleys and channels on Mars which they think were carved out and eroded by rain and surface runoff, just like on the Earth.

Aug 24, 2016, 11:07 AM IST

Volcanoes erupted beneath ice sheet on Mars billions of years ago

The new findings could help reveal if the Martian environment had flowing water and was once habitable.

May 04, 2016, 11:35 AM IST

Why did NASA not direct Curiosity to look for water?

While the world is going gaga over the presence of flowing brine or salty water on the Red Planet, questions are now being asked why the US space agency did not direct its Curiosity rover to the place where water proofs were recorded for a closer look.

Sep 30, 2015, 18:32 PM IST

Formally handed over Nagpur MRO to Air India: Boeing

Two months after Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari had said Boeing had disassociated itself with the much-delayed USD 100-million MRO facility in Nagpur, the American planemaker has said it has completed the work and handed over the facility to Air India last month.

Aug 16, 2015, 20:06 PM IST

Air India eyes Rs 1,000 cr MRO facility at Nagpur

To be handed over to the flag carrier by Boeing, this will be Asia`s largest MRO facility and is expected to be completed by mid-2015.

Jan 13, 2015, 14:38 PM IST

GMR gets conditional nod to buy partner's stake in MRO unit

The Board of Approvals, under the Union Ministry of Commerce, has given its conditional nod to a GMR Group proposal to buy out the 50 percent stake owned by its partner Malaysian Aerospace Engineering in an aircraft maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) unit.

Aug 05, 2014, 19:17 PM IST