Mr Kumarahn,
for your kind info, The satellites india
launched a year and half back, were NOT
anything like a geosta. they were launched
in to the lower satellite orbit (the same
place where our SUPARCO will launching
Pakistan 3rd satellite in year 2003).
Pakistan is not really far behind then india
in space launching technology. below are
few words from the fas.org site..
SUPARCO began launching imported sounding rockets in 1962, and has fired small sounding rockets on sub-orbital science flights from launch pads at its Sonmiani Beach [Maini Beach] flight-range, 36 miles west of Karachi. By the 1970s SUPARCO had developed the ability to fabricate rocket motors from raw materials at a solid-propellant manufacturing plant.
The rocket india used had a russain engine
and TECHNOLOGY. india no way has enough
resources to have a REAL ACTIVE space program
of it’s own (just like Pakistan). so we don’t
expect anything big from ISRO.
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Pureland: I am hurt to know the level of your ignorance. More hurt to have even discussed with you - who thinks Pakistan has got the most advanced space and missile technology in the world.
Keep it up and I'll take care to stay away from you.
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and what would you call your fellow indians
who are saying that 36% of NASA employees are
indians? and are the most intelligent and educated people on earth? and who think Pakistan is nothing compared to india.
What I was trying to say was that Pakistan is
as good as india or any other country size of
it's resources. Having in compitition with
a country 10 times more in resouces is itself
a fairly daring thing and Pakistan has done
a pretty good job keeping india into its
limits. Otherwise, indian intentions towards
her neighbours are no secret to anybody !!
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Originally posted by rvikz:
36% employees of nasa are indians. any top hi-tech cutting edge technology you will see indians
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Congratulations to Indians for being more than a third of NASA workforce. This is a great achievement.
Can I have a reference to enlighten myself.
Thanks in advance and congratulations again.
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When the US x-ray space observatory "Chandra" starts its journey tomorrow, it will carry
two distinct Indian marks.
The first one is its name which has been given after the late Indian scientist Subrahmanyan
Chandrasekhar and the second one is the contribution of a young Indian scientist who was
associated with the designing of some hi-tech cameras on the telescope.
Chandra, the world's most advanced x-ray observatory, would study flaring and exploding
stars, black holes and clouds of hot gas in galaxy clusters which are invisible to normal
optical telescope.
The telescope has been named after Chandrasekhar, an India-born Nobel-laureate
physicist who diverted some basic laws governing modern astrophysics.
The second Indian name involved with the 45-feet-long telescope is of Somak
Raychaudhury's, currently working at inter university centre for astronomy and astrophysics
(IUCCA) at Pune, who was associated with the signing of some very sophisticated cameras
on the telescope.
"I worked on the Chandra mission till 1995 and was involved in the design and testing of
high resolution cameras (HRC) which will help capture many unusual celestial evnets,"
Raychaudhury, a former member of the designing team at Harvard Smithsonian centre for
astrophysics said.
Chandra will be the NASA's third space observatory in a series, the first two being Hubble
space telescope and Compton Gamma ray observatory. It will observe some intriguing
mysteries in astronomy ranging from comets in our solar system to quasars (quasi-stellar
astronomical objects, often a radio source) at universe's edge.
While Hubble and Compton sees visible light and gamma rays respectively, Chandra will
give scientists their first view of some of the most violent and energetic activities taking place
at faraway places across the universe, Raychaudhury said.
Since many of the events in the universe cannot be seen by optical telescopes, x-ray
telescope like Candra would help scientists solve many celestial mysteries including that of
dark matter (invisible massive matter which scientists believe fills the universe). (
So you feel proud of someone else acheivements?. NASA is still an american administration. naming something like an indian name won't make any difference. Also,
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar moved to America
and got most of his advanced education here.
He was born in Lahore (present Pakistan,
got some of his education from madras and
then moved to the US in 1937 [well before
partition])he became an American citizen in
1953 and was awarded a Nobel prize in 1983 as
an AMERICAN.
Again, i would repeat, indian are no better
then Pakistanis and it now time for you
people to come out of your blind deception.
no body saying pakistanis are not equal to indians are anybody else. necesscity is mother of all inventions. but india has built
few good educational institutions now it is paying off.
pakistan more concentrated in military than education . now pakistan also come to realise how important technoloical self-suffiecincy
[This message has been edited by rvikz (edited February 19, 2001).]
this 36% figures i got it from usenet forums . i accept it is unreilabel sourece.
i still trying myself to find out the truth
it is source of inspiration for south asian children not that i want be proud of
somebodys achievment since we are always bombarded with negative information about
south asia
[This message has been edited by rvikz (edited February 20, 2001).]
Atleast I did not make any false claim as you
and your fellow countryman..
Aviod personal attacks since you’ve never
met me. I never refered to you as anything.
{before this post}
don’t you think I can call you something
worse then what you’ve called me…bahave
yourself kid.
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