Space Age Outsourcing
- April 22nd, 2008
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ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organization, is launching its most trusted PSLV, or the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle tomorrow, with, a satellite? No, not A satellite, but 10 satellites tomorrow.
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle can handle upto 1000 Kgs of Payload, and the main satellite that its carrying is about 750 Kilograms, and a micro satellite is about 63 kgs, and another 8 nano satellites developed by various universities in Europe to be put into orbit.
The PSLV is a slim vehicle, doesnt have the booster rockets that you see at the launch of Discovery. And putting all these satellites into orbitis just 10 minutes work for the people at ISRO, a senior guy has said.
This is the very first time in the history of any space agency to launch 10 satellites in 1 vehicle on the same day, at the same time. No one has done that before. And no one has had the requirement to do this before.
Everyone is outsourcing everything to India. Even satellite launches. India offers the cheapest satellite launch in the world. Not even Russia can offer such cheap costs. Russia puts man in space, but if India starts doing that, Russia will start loosing market in that too.
What else would India start outsourcing? Money Minting? No, no government would trust Indian Printers with that.
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