India Successfully Test Fires Its Heaviest Rocket

vasanth (908280) writes India on Thursday moved forward in rocket technology with the successful flight testing of its heaviest next generation rocket and the crew module . The 630-tonne three-stage rocket, Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III, carried active solid boosters, liquid core stage and a passive cryo stage and a crew module to test its re-entry characteristics. This rocket is capable of doubling the capacity of payloads India can carry into space and it can deposit up to four tonne class of communication satellites into space. India also plans to use this rocket for ferrying Indian astronauts into space. For India, ISRO (the Indian space agency) perfecting the cryogenic engine technology is crucial as India can save precious foreign exchange by launching heavy duty communication satellites by itself.

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Poor Mr. Rocket

[Tablizer]

Isn't it discriminatory to give an employee a pink-slip for being obese?

Now if India would just invest in its own people

[Anonymous Coward]

Not impressed. India continues to be an example of extreme corruption, where 100's of millions of Indian citizens live in uneducated squalor and ignorance. Fix that first, instead of trotting out your technological prowess, India. Fix your education system so that teachers actually *show up* instead of charging "tuitions" to students for special access after school, because the teacher is not in class. End your ridiculous ignorance about women's place in society. Guarantee civil rights for all India citizens. Stop the insane corruption at every level of one of the world's top 10 public bureaucracy. India *could* be a great country; firing rockets off into space don't mean a thing.