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India Test-Fires Cryogenic Rocket Engine

Posted by michael on from the stand-waaaaaay-back dept.

alphakappa writes "Wired News reports that India has successfully testfired a cryogenic rocket engine that can be used to 'launch high-altitude satellites, send a man to the moon -- or build intercontinental ballistic missiles'. The rocket which typically has to fire for 12 minutes during flight was fired for 17 minutes during ground testing. So are we gonna see competition in the moon race? Remember, India has already spoken about sending a mission to the moon and it has joined the Galileo consortium along with China."

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  1. Re:Before by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why steal? A significant of the students in US science and engineering programs are Indian, and I don't know how many are from China. It's funny, the US will "teach a man to fish" in countries that it bitches about IP theft, and will "give a man a fish" to 3rd world countries who really need some sort of economic base. Dumbasses.

  2. Re:Before by MoP030 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Before anyone comes out and spouts the "stolen or bought technology" meme
    ...we should recall the meme that US and Soviet rockets are based on German rockets (further developed by German scientists).
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