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Low-Budget Indian Satellite Launch

Posted by timothy on from the discount-pass-to-space dept.

Geekonomical writes "On Thursday afternoon, for a mere 15 million U.S. dollars, India launched a meteorological satellite into geo-synchronous transfer orbit some 36,000 kilometres above the equator using a modified version of its highly successful space workhorse, the polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV). The article also claims that China spends 12 times as much as this for a launch!"

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  1. Re:implications by JimPooley · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    Fuck the US. Space does not belong to them. The Russians were there first, dammit!

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