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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 khuber · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Hey Stuck Up british boy! Hows your "empire" ?? OH wait!! ITS AN ISLAND, A TINY ISLAND!

    LMAO

    -Kevin

  2. META: Slashdot styleguide? (choosing anchortext) by RobotWisdom · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I've recently started a lowkey campaign to make Slashdot blurbs more user-friendly (click my user-info link above for recent examples, all flagged 'META').

    In this blurb, "for a mere 15 million U.S. dollars" is completely random, chosen simply to be near the start of the blurb. My preference is to highlight a word that describes the type of content so I'd favor using "article" in the last sentence.

    W3C-doctrine is that the highlighted text should be self-explanatory when it's pulled out of context, as in Slashdot's marginal winnowing of links. I see the argument, but I don't believe it's really workable. (How often do those marginal links get clicked, anyway?)

    The most common Slashdot style is to include extra links to the publication, etc-- I hate this because it requires me to look closely at the various choices to be sure I'm getting the right one. Even though the article is at SpaceDaily, there just isn't any reason to include an extra link to their main page, and I'd like to see Slashdot start a styleguide that deprecates that approach.

    My previous METAs have all been flagged offtopic, but Slashdot ought to be sophisticated enough to appreciate when METAs need a forum, too...

  3. Re:META: Slashdot styleguide? (choosing anchortext by dmiller · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I've recently started a lowkey campaign to make Slashdot blurbs more user-friendly...

    You really need to get out more.

  4. Re:Slightly OT, but informational by Spunk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    how's that for moderating my own comments?

    (-1, Redundant)

  5. At this low price... by bobdotorg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... maybe we can get rid of that N'Sync guy once and for all.

    --
    __ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.