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2006-05-07 India-Pakistan

NASA to send two instruments on board Indian moon probe

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Posted by john 2006-05-07 11:28|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The out-sourciing of NASA's mission to India, can it not be a good thing?

Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-07 11:34|| 2006-05-07 11:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Not really outsourcing. NASA's missions remain on course.
It's just two instruments on an Indian bird.

In exchange NASA gets access to all the data from the various instruments - pretty useful for future moon missions.

Posted by john 2006-05-07 14:59|| 2006-05-07 14:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Think of it as earning interest on those outsourced call center and software jobs. ;-)

Posted by lotp 2006-05-07 15:08|| 2006-05-07 15:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Whaahhahahhaa..... yes, quite so. I'm reminded of that each time I check my flight reservations with Delta... via Deli.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-07 15:10|| 2006-05-07 15:10|| Front Page Top

#5 During the Bush visit, India and the US decided to expand cooperation in civil space, including space exploration and satellite navigation.

However, a more ambitious project between the two countries on a space launch agreement is still a distance away this agreement would permit India to launch third country satellites with US components and technology in them. While the two countries have worked out the details of a technology safeguards agreement, which protects US technology from proliferation, a more mundane issue a commercial launch agreement is still out of reach.

Meanwhile, India will push for removal of sanctions on the remaining ISRO entities that remain under US curbs

The US had asked for an Indian astronaut on a US mission which formed a part of the July 18 joint statement. But ISRO determined that it would entail a cost for India which it did not want to pay for instead wanted to concentrate on unmanned missions.

Posted by john 2006-05-07 15:15|| 2006-05-07 15:15|| Front Page Top

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