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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 squaretorus · · Score: 1, Troll

    I didn't know George Bush was a /.er!!

    What a crock of shit. India is a more sophisticated and advanced society than large parts of North America, with one of the most educated populations in the world. To call it third world is insulting, to refer to it as unstable and undeveloped is offensive.

    I suggest you find out a bit about the world.

    The US recently shocked the global community when it announced an intention to blow the shit out of a country on the other side of the globe just because they didn't like the leaders style, they would continue to pollute the atmosphere at dangerous rates, and continue to fund the biggest damn military threat to world peace ever to have existed.