Meet Bob Balram: The IITian behind NASA s first flight on Mars
The chief engineer of Ingenuity helicopter is an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Madras) alumni, Bob Balram who completed his mechanical engineering between 1975-1980
BusinessToday.In | April 20, 2021 | Updated 16:52 IST
Bob Balram, chief engineer of Ingenuity
NASA successfully completed the first powered and controlled flight of the Ingenuity helicopter using atmospheric lift on Mars on April 19, 2021. Touted as the first-ever powered flight on another planet besides Earth, the robotic helicopter took off vertically, hovered and landed on the dusty red surface of Mars.
Hailed as the Wright Brother moment, the mini 1.8 kg copter even carried a wing fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer. The historic achievement is not just a proud moment for Nasa but also for Indians too as the chief engineer of Ingenuity is an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Madras) alumni, Bob Balram who completed his mechanical engineering b
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Moderate climate risk to Bengaluru
Moderate climate risk to Bengaluru
BySridhar VivanSridhar Vivan / Updated: Apr 19, 2021, 06:00 IST
First-ever
Bengaluru Urban was ranked 224 and categorised as moderately
vulnerable to climate risk in the first-ever climate change ranking report in India. The Department of Science and Technology released the Climate Vulnerability and Risk Assessment at the national level using a common framework report from the year 2019 to 2020, that studied the effects of climate change across states and districts. Based on 19 indicators, the states and districts are categorised as: relatively highly vulnerable, moderately vulnerable, and less vulnerable.
Ranked 18th among the States,
Karnataka was categorised as a “relatively moderately vulnerable state”. This assessment report studied India as a whole, with respect to current climate risks and the main drivers of such vulnerability. The report was submitted by the Indian Institute of Technology, Ma