Launch of India's First Navigation Satellite Successful 89
An anonymous reader writes "India's first dedicated navigation satellite, the IRNSS-1A, developed by the Indian Space Research Organization, was successfully put in orbit on Monday night. The launch vehicle, PSLV-C22, bearing the 1,425-kg navigation satellite, blasted off the launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center here at the scheduled lift-off time of 11.41 p.m."
The satellite is the first of seven that will eventually provide a regional equivalent of GPS under complete Indian control.
Re:Out of curiosity... (Score:5, Funny)
we'll have to call their tech support and get a reading from a script to find out
Re:Congrats (Score:5, Funny)
Yesterday, I read about a failed launch from Russia.
Today, I read about a successful launch from India.
I'm sure there's a "in Soviet Russia" mixed in with an "India tech support" joke in there somewhere.
Re:Out of curiosity... (Score:5, Funny)
we'll have to call their tech support and get a reading from a script to find out
But when you call, you get someone in Texas.
Re:Out of curiosity... (Score:5, Funny)
We do have some deep-cover operatives working in Texas(as with other authoritarian petro-theocracies, it pays to keep an eye on them); but if somebody tells you that they are "an American from Texas", they are probably telling one of the inside jokes that they use on foreigners. Texas has texans which are a totally different thing.
This week so far: (Score:5, Funny)
India 1, Russia 0.
So far, it sucks. (Score:5, Funny)
You are somewhere on the surface of a sphere 20121.2km from satellite #1
Although they've promised a firmware upgrade that will show you as being somewhere on the circle that represents the intersection of that sphere and the Earth's surface.