India Brings Back Orbiting Satellite to Earth

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Posted by timothy on Monday January 22, 2007 @09:58AM from the congratulations-on-a-hard-job dept.

bharatm writes "In a pathbreaking event heralding its arrival as a space power with capability to recover an orbiting satellite, India today successfully brought back a spacecraft to earth, giving a new impetus to the proposed manned mission to space in the next decade."

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Now all they need to do.... (Score:3, Funny)

by PHAEDRU5 ( 213667 ) writes: <instascreedNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Monday January 22, 2007 @10:00AM (#17709728) Homepage

Is test an ASAT missile.

(I'm sure that's coming.)

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Let me be the first to say... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 22, 2007 @10:03AM (#17709750)

Holy Cow!

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Sweet (Score:1, Funny)

by mfh ( 56 ) writes: on Monday January 22, 2007 @10:03AM (#17709756) Homepage Journal

Now we can have cheap interstellar labour!

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Re:And yet (Score:5, Funny)

by elrous0 ( 869638 ) * writes: on Monday January 22, 2007 @10:06AM (#17709774)

India launches them. China shoots them down. And NASA spends several years and several $billion contracting with Boeing to develop a missle-proof satellite system to be ready "sometime in 2022."
-Eric

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Recovery Vehicle (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 22, 2007 @10:18AM (#17709890)

The Indian space program is now working on a recovery vehicle with four 'arms' to retrieve satellites. Here is a an artist's rendition [wikimedia.org].

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Re:And yet (Score:3, Funny)

by RafaelGCPP ( 922041 ) writes: on Monday January 22, 2007 @10:19AM (#17709900)

And what about sharks?? That would be evil!

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Best thing (Score:5, Funny)

by Fist! Of! Death! ( 1038822 ) writes: on Monday January 22, 2007 @10:39AM (#17710092)

Best to retrieve it before China shoots it down I guess.

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Safer on the ground (Score:1, Funny)

by BillGatesLoveChild ( 1046184 ) writes: on Monday January 22, 2007 @10:52AM (#17710236) Journal

> India Brings Back Orbiting Satellite to Earth

You think they're going to leave it out there for China to shoot it down?
It's like when you see someone practicing reverse parking on your neighbors car.
You briskly move yours into the garage.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washington dc/la-fg-satellite19jan19,0,2329821.story [latimes.com]

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Moonraker? (Score:4, Funny)

by Brunellus ( 875635 ) writes: on Monday January 22, 2007 @11:10AM (#17710442) Homepage

I just started humming the theme from "Moonraker"

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Re:Priorities (Score:3, Funny)

by mdwh2 ( 535323 ) writes: on Monday January 22, 2007 @11:18AM (#17710552) Journal

Yes, clearly, the only possible two choices are "Spend money on space" and "Spend money on food for the poor".

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Re:Recovery Vehicle (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday January 22, 2007 @11:52AM (#17710950)

please dont make joke of our Gods (Its a Request).
It can hurt many.

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Re:You miss something (Score:4, Funny)

by cayenne8 ( 626475 ) writes: on Monday January 22, 2007 @02:16PM (#17713078) Homepage Journal

""India launches them. The United States, Russia and China shoot them down. "
I certainly hope not.
This is the first step by India, hopefully, towards establishing the first Quickie Mart on the moon!!
:-)

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Now all they need to do.... (Score:3, Funny)

Let me be the first to say... (Score:5, Funny)

Sweet (Score:1, Funny)

Re:And yet (Score:5, Funny)

Recovery Vehicle (Score:0, Funny)

Re:And yet (Score:3, Funny)

Best thing (Score:5, Funny)

Safer on the ground (Score:1, Funny)

Moonraker? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Priorities (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Recovery Vehicle (Score:1, Funny)

Re:You miss something (Score:4, Funny)

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