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UK Seeks Stronger Partnership In Space Technology With India
tanujt writes "David Willett, British minister for Universities and Sciences has called for a stronger partnership between Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and UK's space program. As of now, Willetts invited ISRO to partner the UK in its TechDemoSat program. TechDemoSat is an industry-led technology demonstration satellite which aims to provide a low-Earth-orbit test bed to help demonstrate the technical maturity and commercial viability of innovative new space technology. TK Alex, director of ISRO Satellite Centre, invited the UK to partner India in training space scientists through academic exchanges between the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing and leading UK universities. This follows US President Obama's recent visit to India, wherein he signaled ending the ban on high-end technology exports and removal of Indian organizations, including ISRO and Defense Research & Development Organization (DRDO), from the Entity List."
And It sure and hell beats a 'Blade Runner' type of World.
RIP America
July 4, 1776 - September 11, 2001
> Houston, we have a problem.
"Good day, mine name is Sanjay, how can I be helping you today?"
> Is that Houston?
"Thankyou. Mission control has been relocated to Mumbai. Can I start by getting your mission number please?"
The UK should be researching time travel instead. Then they could go back fifty years and prevent the UK aerospace industry (with its stand-off missiles, supersonic VTOL close support aircraft, supersonic all-weather low-level strike aircraft, hybrid jet/rocket interceptors, reusable spaceplanes etc) from being scrapped. Who knew that those things would ever be any use?
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
Yippee! No more dehydrated rations. Say hello to space curry!
I was going to type, lets see how many posts we manage before the call centre ad "jokes" creep in, but looks like I was too late.
This is fantastic news! Strengthen international relationships (which lets face it do need some TLC) and forward Space exploration. Double win!
UK law prohibits sending a UK citizen into space so guess they are doing this deal so they can send Indians into space instead, thereby circumventing said law
And if there's anything a moron like you should have learned from past history, it is that ISRO has had almost a 100% success rate in rocket launches. And at a damn low rate too.
Right. Because the Commonwealth games managers are the ones handling the space program too. Oh, wait...
Looking at everything that's going on in this thread, it goes to show that it's going to be excruciatingly difficult to able to get out of the cesspool of history. Harmless stereotypical jokes aside, it seems people are not going to take each other seriously unless they look/talk the same and come from a "familiar" land. Let alone build space tech together.
Welp, it's at the least going to be interesting to see how far we go like this until the next blatant colonization effort.
The UK wouldn't be trying to bypass French dominance of ESA and punch above its weight by leveraging the Commonwealth would it?
Interesting stuff; India is certainly developing the economy to support a reasonable space programme and an Hindi-Anglo operation could create a serious commercial competitor to ESA and even NASA.
Two lessons to remember though; India has absorbed other cultures and made them its own many, many times. Despite what the British seem to think God does not sit at our right hand; there's nothing to stop it doing it to us. And the Hindi word for Englishman was their transliteration of the English word foreigner; 'Ferengi'. The two countries are kind of only friends by unhappy accident and there's a lot of unpleasant history in there.
And now we're going into space together? Fun times ahead.