BJP minister hails shooting down of satellite that 'kept watch on India'
Politics | Mar 27, 2019, 11:17 PM ISTAfter the post came in for trolling, the minister's social media team deleted it.
After the post came in for trolling, the minister's social media team deleted it.
When the world is striving out in the space, trying to outdo each other, compare them with our favorite sci-fi movie, We Must!
India on Wednesday became the fourth country in the world to develop the technology to shoot down 'Low Orbit Satellites'. While doing so India joined USA, China and Russia in an elite group of nations to possess such advanced space technologies.
India has always held the stand that any new technologies that it develops or acquires are not aimed at any country but only boosts India’s deterrence and aspirations for peace.
Here are the answers to all the important questions and everything else you need to know about India’s latest space achievement.
In its normal configuration, the rocket would have six strap-on motors hugging the its first stage. However, the PSLV that would be flying on January 24 with Microsat R and Kalamsat will be a two strap-on motors configuration and is designated as PSLV-DL.
China will launch 90 earth observation satellites for an Argentinian company which, according to a Chinese space official, will be a landmark achievement for the country in the international space market.
The mission life of the GSAT-7A, built by the Indian Space Research Organisation, is eight years.
The Falcon 9 carried to orbit 64 spacecraft, in particular 15 Micro satellites and 49 cubesats, from 34 different organisations from 17 countries.
The satellite, along with 30 other international co-passenger spacecraft, was injected into the orbit by the PSLV-C43 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on November 29.
Video posted by a Chinese news site showed Landspace's 19-meter- (62-foot-) tall red-and-white rocket lifting off against clear blue skies.
The satellite with a three-year mission was launched at 9.02 a.m EDT on September 15, with liftoff aboard a Delta II rocket from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Called the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), will measure the average annual elevation change of land ice covering Greenland and Antarctica to within the width of a pencil, capturing 60,000 measurements every second.
The Tripura chief minister even said that the prime minister has given a big push to digitisation by making it accessible to citizens across the country.
If the April launch of the Chandrayaan-2, the country's second mission to the Moon, is not possible, then the ISRO will aim for a launch by October.
"The 28-hour countdown began at 5.29 a.m. in the mission control here for the rocket launch at 9.28 a.m. on Friday," said the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on its website.
As per a report, the satellite will be launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket between 8 to 10 pm.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on Monday launched KoreaSat 5A communications satellite from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Three satellites and an object falling from the International Space Station (ISS) will burn up as they enter earth’s atmosphere in the next 20 days.
ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar said the mission to launch India’s eighth navigation satellite IRNSS-1H was 'unsuccessful'.
Top News
Latest News