Indian Robot Will Capture Space Debris

CowboyRobot writes "India is set to launch the 'Space Robot', which, controlled from Earth, will capture damaged satellites and space debris. This seems a less ambitious, and more immediately practical venture than the current Mars missions."

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Re:Short on details, long on possibilities

[geoswan]

May I suggest that it is a mistake to think of India as a "developing country"? I had an Indian friend at University who could be relied on to remind us that, in absolute terms, India's industrial capacity placed it among the dozen or so most industrialized nations on earth.

Compare the economies of India and Russia. India's GDP was about twice that of Russia's last year. While a higher proportion of Russia's GDP was in its industrialized sector, India's industrialized sector is still larger, in absolute terms.

There is an old aphorism that inside every fat man there is a thin man screaming to get out. So, remember, India's industrial sector is larger than Russia's.