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India's Space Agency Successfully Launches 2 UK Earth Observation Satellites (thehindu.com)
The late-night dark skies at Sriharikota, India, lit up in bright orange hues as the PSLV-C42 lifted off and vanished into the thick black clouds, carrying two satellites from the United Kingdom -- NovaSAR and S1-4 from the first launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR. Local news outlet reports: The lightest version of the PSLV, flying in its core-alone version without the six strap-on motors, the PSLV-C-42 rose into the skies at 10.08 p.m. Almost 18 minutes later, the two satellites were placed in the desired orbit by ISRO. This was the 12th such launch of a core-alone version of the PSLV by ISRO. "This was a spectacular mission. We have placed the satellite in a very, very precise orbit," R. Hutton, Mission Director, said.
The two satellites, owned by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) were placed in a circular orbit around the poles, 583 km (362 miles) from Earth. The commercial arm of ISRO, Antrix Corporation earned more than â220 crore ($30.5 million) on this launch. The NovaSAR is a technology demonstration mission designed to test the capabilities of a new low cost S-band SAR platform. It will be used for ship detection and maritime monitoring and also flood monitoring, besides agricultural and forestry applications. The S1-4 will be used for environment monitoring, urban management, and tackling disasters. On the sidelines, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said it will launch three more satellites to provide high-speed bandwidth connectivity to rural areas as part of the government's Digital India programme, a local news agency reported.
The two satellites, owned by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) were placed in a circular orbit around the poles, 583 km (362 miles) from Earth. The commercial arm of ISRO, Antrix Corporation earned more than â220 crore ($30.5 million) on this launch. The NovaSAR is a technology demonstration mission designed to test the capabilities of a new low cost S-band SAR platform. It will be used for ship detection and maritime monitoring and also flood monitoring, besides agricultural and forestry applications. The S1-4 will be used for environment monitoring, urban management, and tackling disasters. On the sidelines, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said it will launch three more satellites to provide high-speed bandwidth connectivity to rural areas as part of the government's Digital India programme, a local news agency reported.
The S1-4 will be used for environment monitoring, urban management, and tackling disasters.
Because *that* doesn't sound ominous.
This is pretty neat! I would be glad to see more activity from India's space agency! India has historically had some of the world's greatest astronomers and greatly influenced European and Islamic Astronomy; it's a natural fit for them!
Can't wait to see their contributions in a decade!
India's ISRO Successfully Launches ...
As opposed to the ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) in some other country?
(We don't say, "The United State's NASA" - do we.)
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Their own damn satellite! ;)
Sure, there's poor people, and that should be fixed.
But this gives hope, and gets people to think differently about India.
I hope this leads to some dirt-poor Indian somewhere saying “NO. I won't accept being treated like this anymore! We're a space nation, FFS! I shall have a better life now, or I'll kick yo ass until I do, leech!"
Hey, assholes.
1. 4chan came up with the street shitters meme.
2. Indian maths was copied by islamists and then copied by European translators.
3. Get out of momma's basement and read some history.
4. And the UK is being over run by the worst of the worst - Pakistani rape gangs.
Good luck freaks, you'll need it.
Ironic?
..... who shit in the streets, smell, are hopelessly corrupt and who have been the playthings of Europeans for centuries.
Now, get back to driving that taxi Prajit.
Unfortunately India is simoultaneously both. Indian middle class which is a sizeable population(~200 Million) live comfortably -space scientists, governament servants , IT professionals, financial and automotive executives and many more. Rest of the indians live a miserable life when compared to American standards. Things are improving fast - people are becoming literate while getting jobs is difficu,lt.
But there are some things in india which are far too good - like dirt cheap 4G internet giving GB's of data and free voice calls(almost everybody owns a phone).
Pity they can't call for toilets or a rape prevention squad.
No, the fault lies with Indian culture.
You do realise that English is an Indo-European language? The clue is in the name.
Let us look at the title again
"India's Space Agency Successfully Launches 2 UK Earth Observation Satellites"
UK is supposed to be a First World Country while India is supposed to be a Third World Country
Why is it not UK that is launching India's satellites, but the reverse?
Are the Brits - citizens of a First World Country - okay with the notion of having to rely on a Third World Country to launch their satellites for them?
Don't the Brits have any pride left?
Please keep it to yourself.
We Britons do not like to be reminded of what kind of failed fucks we have become.
Great Britain has yet to do anything right ever since the end of World War Two.
Wait isnt rape just darwin at work. The strongest people and tribe rapes the weak tribes women to spread the more virile seed around. If the UK has rape ganges, dont blame the pakis. Blame the weak UK males. If this was 1930s UK, and they had in influx pakis raping the flower of England all the males would have shut down the border and then went abroad to rape some pakistanis.
Rape is only immoral if u subscibe to Christian morality. Since we are all enlightened left leaning intellectuals we should accept rape culture as legitimate. Dont be a christian biggot.
Now what about devoting some resources to supplying with electricity, running water and sanitation for the more than 600 million Indian citizens who lack such basic facilities? After all, we already know that India can piss as far as anyone else.
Also, there are more Indians that speak English than Americans that do, and they've been doing so for longer. If anyone has a claim to English outside the UK, it's India.
San Francisco is not the land of "high tech" they'd have you believe.
San Francisco is the land of feces, pollution, open sewers and illiterate white junkies. Images of the REAL San Francisco.