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India-Pakistan
India: plan for 70 space missions in 5 years
2008-04-06
India moves smartly into the 21st century while its two Muslim neighbors remain stuck in the 9th century.
BANGALORE — India plans to undertake 70 space missions in five years, a nearly three-fold jump from the previous half-decade, as it seeks to address requirements and develop new technologies to meet future needs.

"We have proposed something like 70 missions totally (in the 11th plan (April one 2007 to March 31, 2012) compared to about 26 missions in the tenth plan period," Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation, G. Madhavan Nair, told reporters on the sidelines of a function here. The proposed missions have a "good mix" of both INSAT class satellites as well as remote sensing ones, he said.

Nair, also Secretary in the Department of Space, indicated that the aim is to address requirements of the area of communication transponders and work in the fields of microwave remote sensing, hyper spectral and other new technologies of the future. "Future developments will be towards the manned space mission and reusable satellites and Ka-band satellites," he added.
Posted by:Steve White

#3   India's first planetary mission, Chandrayaan-1, has now been rescheduled to take place in the first week of July as the mission personnel work overtime to sort out payload integration and launch-related issues.

The lunar mission was originally scheduled for April this year, a time-frame targeted four years ago to get all the payloads well ahead of time and to galvanise the scientists into mission mode with a target to work on.

The 525-kg lunar orbiter will carry as many as 11 instruments (payloads), including six from overseas two from the US and one each from Britain, Sweden, Germany and Bulgaria
Posted by: john frum   2008-04-06 06:52  

#2  Space agency ISRO has finalised its project report on India's proposed first manned space mission in 2015 and will submit it to the Government within a few days for approval. "We have now finalised the project report on the manned mission.
Posted by: john frum   2008-04-06 06:50  

#1  India plans to launch an advanced remote sensing satellite, Cartosat-2A, on April 28 along with a Third World Satellite (TWSAT) and eight nano satellites on board home-built Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from its spaceport of Sriharikota.

Cartosat-2A will carry a panchromatic camera capable of providing scene-specific spot imageries for cartographic and other applications. "It has better than one metre resolution",
Posted by: john frum   2008-04-06 06:50  

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