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1. Inshore patrol vessel Rani Durgavati joins Indian Coast Guard.
2. Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka has set a Guinness World Record for spending longest
time in space with a total of 804 days as on July 2015. With this he broke the previous record of
803 days, nine hours and 41 minutes set by Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev (now retired)
across six missions from 1998 to 2005.
3. In fresh trials, India has test-fired its indigenously developed Nag anti-tank guided missile,
which can hit a target upto seven km, from a helicopter at a firing range in Jaisalmer in
Rajasthan. HeliNa is a helicopter-launched version of Nag and has been developed by the
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) under the Integrated Guided Missile
Development Programme (IGMDP).
4. India launched its satellite-based air navigation services, thereby joining a select league
comprising the US, Europe Union (EU) and Japan which have similar systems. Civil Aviation
Minister Ashok Gajapati Raju dedicated the services to the nation in a ceremony in New Delhi.
The system - known as Gagan or global positioning system (GPS).
5. ISRO on 10 July 2015 successfully launched five British commercial satellites on board PSLVC28 from this spaceport in the heaviest commercial mission ever undertaken by it. Indian
Space Research Organisation workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C28 placed the five
satellites, for a United Kingdom-based company named Surrey Space Technology Limited, in
sun synchronous orbit about 20 minutes after lift-off at 9.58 PM from the Satish Dhawan Space
Centre.
6. Earth 2.0: What we know about Kepler 452b, the most Earth-like planet ever discovered.
7. Isro's Gagan Satellite-Based Navigation System Launched.
8. India‘s first Integrated Underwater Harbour Defence and Surveillance System (IUHDSS) was
commissioned in Kochi, Kerala.It is Designed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) & consists of
advance sensors, coastal surveillance radars and sound navigation and ranging systems
(SONAR).
9. A global satellite for earth observation and disaster risk reduction — GlobalSat for DRR —
proposed under the UN framework is to be dedicated to A.P.J. Abdul Kalam as a tribute to the
vision of the celebrated rocket scientist and former Indian president who died July 27.
10. NASA signed 490 million US dollars contract with Russia for International Space Station
travel
11. Multi Application Solar Telescope operationalised at Udaipur Solar Observatory. The
telescope will be used to measure vector magnetic fields of active regions at different heights
of the solar atmosphere.
12. Indo-UK Bilateral Air Exercise Indradhanush concluded.
13. Exercise Ajeya Warrior is a joint exercise between the armies of India and UK. Exercise
began on 13 June 2015 at Westdown Camp in Salisbury Plains Training Area, UK.
14. India‘s maiden indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant was undocked at the Cochin Shipyard
in Kochi, Kerala.
15. Indigenously built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant undocked in Kochi
16. Mirage 2000 fighter jet landed on Yamuna Expressway as part of developing road runways
17. Indigenously developed Astra Missile successfully test fired from ITR Chandipur in Odisha
18. Fourth Corvette of Project-28 christened Kavaratti launched
19. Naval Base at Porbandar commissioned as INS Sardar Patel
20. Indigenously developed Akash Weapon System (AWS) inducted into Indian Army
21. 14th Edition of Indo-French Naval Exercise VARUNA 2015 concluded
22. Indian Coast Guard (ICG) held Theera Veta defence exercise in Arabian Sea
23. Indian Navy‘s new missile destroyer ship named Visakhapatnam launched
24. India successfully test-fired Dhanush ballistic missile
25. Indian Navy concluded TROPEX Exercise 2015
26. Indo-Nepal joint military exercise Surya Kiran VIII started in Nepal
27. HADR Exercise conducted by Indian Navy in the Lakshadweep Islands
28. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar launched the country's first indigenously-built Scorpene
submarine at the Mazagaon Dockyard Ltd in Mumbai.
2. Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka has set a Guinness World Record for spending longest
time in space with a total of 804 days as on July 2015. With this he broke the previous record of
803 days, nine hours and 41 minutes set by Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev (now retired)
across six missions from 1998 to 2005.
3. In fresh trials, India has test-fired its indigenously developed Nag anti-tank guided missile,
which can hit a target upto seven km, from a helicopter at a firing range in Jaisalmer in
Rajasthan. HeliNa is a helicopter-launched version of Nag and has been developed by the
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) under the Integrated Guided Missile
Development Programme (IGMDP).
4. India launched its satellite-based air navigation services, thereby joining a select league
comprising the US, Europe Union (EU) and Japan which have similar systems. Civil Aviation
Minister Ashok Gajapati Raju dedicated the services to the nation in a ceremony in New Delhi.
The system - known as Gagan or global positioning system (GPS).
5. ISRO on 10 July 2015 successfully launched five British commercial satellites on board PSLVC28 from this spaceport in the heaviest commercial mission ever undertaken by it. Indian
Space Research Organisation workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C28 placed the five
satellites, for a United Kingdom-based company named Surrey Space Technology Limited, in
sun synchronous orbit about 20 minutes after lift-off at 9.58 PM from the Satish Dhawan Space
Centre.
6. Earth 2.0: What we know about Kepler 452b, the most Earth-like planet ever discovered.
7. Isro's Gagan Satellite-Based Navigation System Launched.
8. India‘s first Integrated Underwater Harbour Defence and Surveillance System (IUHDSS) was
commissioned in Kochi, Kerala.It is Designed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) & consists of
advance sensors, coastal surveillance radars and sound navigation and ranging systems
(SONAR).
9. A global satellite for earth observation and disaster risk reduction — GlobalSat for DRR —
proposed under the UN framework is to be dedicated to A.P.J. Abdul Kalam as a tribute to the
vision of the celebrated rocket scientist and former Indian president who died July 27.
10. NASA signed 490 million US dollars contract with Russia for International Space Station
travel
11. Multi Application Solar Telescope operationalised at Udaipur Solar Observatory. The
telescope will be used to measure vector magnetic fields of active regions at different heights
of the solar atmosphere.
12. Indo-UK Bilateral Air Exercise Indradhanush concluded.
13. Exercise Ajeya Warrior is a joint exercise between the armies of India and UK. Exercise
began on 13 June 2015 at Westdown Camp in Salisbury Plains Training Area, UK.
14. India‘s maiden indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant was undocked at the Cochin Shipyard
in Kochi, Kerala.
15. Indigenously built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant undocked in Kochi
16. Mirage 2000 fighter jet landed on Yamuna Expressway as part of developing road runways
17. Indigenously developed Astra Missile successfully test fired from ITR Chandipur in Odisha
18. Fourth Corvette of Project-28 christened Kavaratti launched
19. Naval Base at Porbandar commissioned as INS Sardar Patel
20. Indigenously developed Akash Weapon System (AWS) inducted into Indian Army
21. 14th Edition of Indo-French Naval Exercise VARUNA 2015 concluded
22. Indian Coast Guard (ICG) held Theera Veta defence exercise in Arabian Sea
23. Indian Navy‘s new missile destroyer ship named Visakhapatnam launched
24. India successfully test-fired Dhanush ballistic missile
25. Indian Navy concluded TROPEX Exercise 2015
26. Indo-Nepal joint military exercise Surya Kiran VIII started in Nepal
27. HADR Exercise conducted by Indian Navy in the Lakshadweep Islands
28. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar launched the country's first indigenously-built Scorpene
submarine at the Mazagaon Dockyard Ltd in Mumbai.
