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Launch of India's First Navigation Satellite Successful
An anonymous reader writes "India's first dedicated navigation satellite, the IRNSS-1A, developed by the Indian Space Research Organization, was successfully put in orbit on Monday night. The launch vehicle, PSLV-C22, bearing the 1,425-kg navigation satellite, blasted off the launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center here at the scheduled lift-off time of 11.41 p.m."
The satellite is the first of seven that will eventually provide a regional equivalent of GPS under complete Indian control.
Is India's space navigation system sufficiently similar(in terms of frequencies, antenna demands, etc.) that it will be relatively easy to shoehorn into navigation chipsets along with GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo, or is it enough of an oddball in some way, either technologically or administratively(a more hardass version of the old GPS civilian precision reduction that the US used to use or occassionally threaten to use), that this is basically irrelevant for everybody who isn't Indian military?
and a better society, these people will move to India now, right? Oh, sorry, asking questions on slashdot is the sign of a nutcase now.
And have they tried rebooting?
This is great news. Here's hoping for a bright and successful future for their new program!
Is the tech support for this satellite in Europe?
Dear AC, your whole post is pointless because you made a wrong assumption:
* Mr. Hasselhoff actually is talented, but this goes unnoticed in his own country.
He's also unnoticed in Canada, so the rest of your rant is pointless.
Also, the Invisible Pink Unicorn is stronger than your so-called Beast, so we have nothing to worry about.
Get free satoshi (Bitcoin) and Dogecoins
have an imperceptible accent and put you on hold for twenty minutes before telling you to try rebooting the car?
...it does the needful.
iphone 5 for one.. here's a list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Smartphones_using_GLONASS_Navigation
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
I don't have a car you insensitive clod.
India 1, Russia 0.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
We are Texans, and there's a spread shitload of us.
So the question for you in Connecticut or wherever is this:
Do you want millions of Texans telling you how to live , through federal legislation, or do you want your state's citizens to decide how you do things there in Connecticut, and we can do it our way in Texas?
You are somewhere on the surface of a sphere 20121.2km from satellite #1
Although they've promised a firmware upgrade that will show you as being somewhere on the circle that represents the intersection of that sphere and the Earth's surface.
while "democratic" first world countires are reverting to totalitarianism. As the old third world wealth and world power grows its going to be interesting how the "old" first woirld citizen react to this when their applying for the "tech support" jobs when the roles are reversed.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Take that Russia!
Damned right! Look at all that technology they stole from that great American, Wernher von Braun.
Have gnu, will travel.
India 1 Russia -3
An Aggie, eh? I happen to be typing this on a computer owned by the Texas A&M System. I'd much prefer to let the Austinites
:)
have their coed public restrooms in Austin, and we can keep our "Men's Room" signs up. Tomorrow, I'll be shooting fireworks, which
are illegal in many parts of the state. I happen to be a pyro geek, spending hundreds of dollars and many hours preparing my show.
As I enjoy the beautiful chemistry in the sky, I'll be glad that Houston politicians can't stop me. They can do it their way in their city.
> and there'll be many in Houston, Dallas, etc. who would absolutely love it if Austin and others were controlled top-down by a more politically aligned state.
Not so much that I've seen. We may joke about the tea sips and their hippy ways, but we're glad to let them be them, in Austin.
Besides, if Austin is to their liking, fewer of them will come here to College Station.
> People in every state likely have the same needs and desires when it comes to things like education, healthcare, and abortion, or freedoms
Connecticut is one of only four states with a law specifically allowing abortion, explicitly saying your GF has the right to murder your child.
Texas is currently passing a law saying that more than five months into a pregancy, abortion is illegal. So the citizens of the different
states don't have the same desires in terms of abortion, for sure.
Healthcare? Show me a Texan who desires Obamacare and I'll show you an Austinite, who probably came from California (meaning they're not a real Texan).
Maybe that's a bad example, because in the last poll, 56% of DEMOCRATS nationwide said Obamcare is unconstitutional.
Education? Some local school boards in Texas, at the behest of the parents in the community, teach that the Genesis story may
have hints of how the universe was actually created.* Would people in San Francisco desire that to be taught?
* and interestingly, every new scientific find is consistent with the idea that the old testament is indeed based on actual events,
in the same way that Saint Nick the Christmas character is based on a real guy.
He should get out first.
like, they were the first big users of the digit system (inventors even), the '0', the sine, the cosine, they built analog computers (orrerys), spherical geometry, some had a solar centric orbital model centuries before copernicus, and on and on and on. they had some very interesting astronomical observatories built by their government, which of course all went to pot once the british empire invaded and took over.
people are just fucking stupid bigots. india was ahead of the world for a long time in a lot of tech, there is absolutely no reason to believe they cant be again.
"If you wish to keep slaves, you must have all kinds of guards. The cheapest way to have guards is to have the slaves pay taxes to finance their own guards. To fool the slaves, you tell them that they are not slaves and that they have Freedom. You tell them they need Law and Order to protect them against bad slaves. Then you tell them to elect a Government. Give them Freedom to vote and they will vote for their own guards and pay their salary. They will then believe they are Free persons. Then give them money to earn, count and spend and they will be too busy to notice the slavery they are in." --Alexander Warbucks
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