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Space Mission of India

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India’s space programme has transformed the nation’s agriculture, communications and education.

India put up its most glorious demonstration at Sriharikota on November 16, 2007, when the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) tested cryogenic technology to power the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GLSV), capable of putting four-tonne satellites in orbit.

It was the successful demonstration of a technology denied to India by the US for 10 years.

Country now makes an annual revenue of more than $7 million (Rs 28 crore) by marketing space services and hardware to Russia and Europe. India’s space programme is one of the best in the world with an annual budget of $660 million (Rs 2,640 crore), though this is just three per cent of NASA’S space budget.

India’s first rocket was launched on November 21, 1963, from Thumpa, everything was imported except for the Indian engineers and the launch station.

The 715 kg-rocket was an American, the sodium vapour payload was French and the range clearance was given by the Soviet Union.

44 years later, Indian has put in orbit satellites for seven other countries, including Germany and Italy.

India also has two of the world’s largest networks of communication and remote sensing satellites the Indian National Satellite (INSAT), that facilitates telecommunication, television broadcasting, meteorology, disaster warning, search and rescue and the Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellite system, that offers space-based data for applications in agriculture, water resources, urban development and forestry.

India’s space programme has radically impacted the life of common man.

Satellites have taken television to 90 percent of India, provided daily weather forecasts and facilitated educational and tele-medicine projects.

Images from remote sensing satellites have helped farmers increase crop yields and the fishermen increase catch.

Heavy casualties were averted in super cyclone of 1999 in Orissa because of the early warning given by satellites.

Satellite based tele-medicine project links 165 hospitals in villages with 33 specialty hospitals in cities enabling more than 15,000 tele-consultations.

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