INDIAN SATELLITE DEPLOYED IN FINAL ORBIT, March 16

[wawadave]

INDIAN SATELLITE DEPLOYED IN FINAL ORBIT, March 16
An Indian satellite designed to boost television and communication services was on Friday nudged into its final orbit, the national space agency said.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news93275208.html

I find this to be interesting. Not their first successful satellite ether.
I see they have a population 3.3x times that of the usa and have cities with larger population larger then Canada.

Many things in India have not changed in centuries.Many are on par with the rest of us.I have worked with many Indian techs on line and found them to be very proficient in their jobs!!!
But i like the rest of the world picture India as an outdated back water. But that it is not at all!!!!

One of the techs i know is curently working in their Bangalore-based Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

[wawadave]

here is one on takeing the trash out space station style!!

IN SPACE, TRASH CAN'T GO TO THE CURB, March 16
Taking out the trash is no simple chore on the International Space Station, where some junk is carefully hurled into the Earth's atmosphere to burn.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news93266999.html

[xpgeek]

Interesting. Makes sense about the careful removal of trash. They don't want to put unnecessary things into orbit. The space shuttle travels at like, uh, forget the exact number, wild guess here, something like 15,000 miles per hour as it orbits around the earth. At that speed, colliding with something as small as a speck of paint, that is also orbiting at that speed, can be like slamming into brick wall at 200 mph.