India in multiple satellite launch

India (The same India our Prime Minister thinks it is worth squandering £825 million of British taxpayers money in aid upon) has successfully launched 10 satellites in a single mission, boosting its capabilities in space.


India has one of the oldest space programmes dating back over 45 years.

The rocket was carrying an Indian remote-sensing satellite and nine smaller ones, eight of them foreign.

The launch, from the Sriharikota space centre off India's east coast, is being described as a milestone for the country's 45-year-old space programme. Observers say it is a sign that India is emerging as a major player in the multi-billion dollar space market. "The mission was perfect," said G Madhavan Nair, chairman of the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro).

"It is a historic moment for us because it is the first time that we have launched 10 satellites in a single mission."
Last year, Russia launched a rocket carrying 16 satellites - but with a smaller payload, the Press Trust of India reported.

While British pensioners die from hypothermia and children die on hospital trolleys from incurable infections in cash strapped and moribund NHS hospitals, the British government squanders our tax money on aid to a country that has one of the oldest and most advanced space programmes in the world. Makes you proud to be British 'dunnit guvnor'.


Full story with a multiplicity of links concerning the Indian Space Program here..

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