October 22 2008....a red letter day for India...we will join an elite league of nations (USA and Russia) who have presence on moon....our indigenous PSLV will launch a remote sensing satellite which will orbit in lunar orbit and which will survey the lunar surface to produce a complete map of its chemical characteristics and 3-dimensional topography. It is the day when Chandrayaan-1, the first step in India's latest foray into space takes place.
Firstly, I would like to discuss India's extra-ordinary success in space field. The main credit of Indian space program goes to Dr. Vikram Sarabhai and Dr. Homi Bhabha. These two legends saw the need of space research very early. They knew that if India has to become self-reliant and a superpower in future then we have to give proper attention to space research. At that time, when we were just independent and even food was a concern then talking about stars and moon would have sounded nonsense. But credit must be given to them and even to politicians (yes, credit should be given where it is due) for being fore-sighted and continuing with continuous progress in space research. And thus, India entered the space with Aryabhatta in 1975 and has continued to make steady progress since then.
India's beginning was modest. We had to face many disappointments but still we continued making steady progress. Our INSAT series of satellites made us self-reliant in the field of communication. We did most of these launches without the help of any external agency or country. India was facing sanctions from all the major nations and hence leave aside newest technology, our scientist had no access to even the latest equipments and gadgets. But their dedication resulted in one giant stride after another. Initially, world ridiculed our small achievements but they had to eat their words when we were successful in developing PSLV and GSLV.
And now the time has come for India to take the next big step in space research. Till now, our research was for us, to make us self-reliant in fields of communication and defence. But now for the first time the world is also eagerly watching an Indian space programme. This is a field which has been dormant for past many years and which has immense scope. India is doing research in this field not only to study about moon but using it as a precursor to future manned space missions and Mars mission. The success of this mission will put India in the higher echelons of space research.
It also provides a great opportunity to India to make the research really profitable. Chandrayaan is going to take off with payload from NASA and ESA as well. For the past some time we have been getting requests from various countries for the use of our PSLV and GSLV launchers to launch their satellites. This showcases not only the great stride made by India but also provides a good business proposition.
Another reason why i think that Chandrayaan was needed was to tell the world about our might. In order to be a superpower we need to act like one. Our scientist have already shown their might by building indigenous PSLV, GSLV, Tejas and our missile system. At present we are capable of nuclear strikes. And still the world has agreed to give us nuclear fuel and technology without us signing CTBT or NPT is really credible. It says a lot about the world's faith in us and also their hope that we can refine the existing knowledge.
I am not an expert on this topic but i know for certain that India needed something of the scale of Chandrayaan to take Indian space programme to the next level.It makes me real proud to see us making so much progress, to see NASA ask ISRO if they could use our facilities, to see scientists worldwide looking forward to our mission. It is a tribute to all the scientists who have toiled hard for this. Research is a continuous thing and whatever we are today is because of the initial hardships faced by and resolved by scientists from times of Sarabhai and Bhabha.
We owe this success to the hard work of numerous scientists of ISRO, DRDO and various other institutes. It is really makes me proud to see one of them, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam as our President when we announced and started this mission.
JAI HIND!!!
Firstly, I would like to discuss India's extra-ordinary success in space field. The main credit of Indian space program goes to Dr. Vikram Sarabhai and Dr. Homi Bhabha. These two legends saw the need of space research very early. They knew that if India has to become self-reliant and a superpower in future then we have to give proper attention to space research. At that time, when we were just independent and even food was a concern then talking about stars and moon would have sounded nonsense. But credit must be given to them and even to politicians (yes, credit should be given where it is due) for being fore-sighted and continuing with continuous progress in space research. And thus, India entered the space with Aryabhatta in 1975 and has continued to make steady progress since then.
India's beginning was modest. We had to face many disappointments but still we continued making steady progress. Our INSAT series of satellites made us self-reliant in the field of communication. We did most of these launches without the help of any external agency or country. India was facing sanctions from all the major nations and hence leave aside newest technology, our scientist had no access to even the latest equipments and gadgets. But their dedication resulted in one giant stride after another. Initially, world ridiculed our small achievements but they had to eat their words when we were successful in developing PSLV and GSLV.
And now the time has come for India to take the next big step in space research. Till now, our research was for us, to make us self-reliant in fields of communication and defence. But now for the first time the world is also eagerly watching an Indian space programme. This is a field which has been dormant for past many years and which has immense scope. India is doing research in this field not only to study about moon but using it as a precursor to future manned space missions and Mars mission. The success of this mission will put India in the higher echelons of space research.
It also provides a great opportunity to India to make the research really profitable. Chandrayaan is going to take off with payload from NASA and ESA as well. For the past some time we have been getting requests from various countries for the use of our PSLV and GSLV launchers to launch their satellites. This showcases not only the great stride made by India but also provides a good business proposition.
Another reason why i think that Chandrayaan was needed was to tell the world about our might. In order to be a superpower we need to act like one. Our scientist have already shown their might by building indigenous PSLV, GSLV, Tejas and our missile system. At present we are capable of nuclear strikes. And still the world has agreed to give us nuclear fuel and technology without us signing CTBT or NPT is really credible. It says a lot about the world's faith in us and also their hope that we can refine the existing knowledge.
I am not an expert on this topic but i know for certain that India needed something of the scale of Chandrayaan to take Indian space programme to the next level.It makes me real proud to see us making so much progress, to see NASA ask ISRO if they could use our facilities, to see scientists worldwide looking forward to our mission. It is a tribute to all the scientists who have toiled hard for this. Research is a continuous thing and whatever we are today is because of the initial hardships faced by and resolved by scientists from times of Sarabhai and Bhabha.
We owe this success to the hard work of numerous scientists of ISRO, DRDO and various other institutes. It is really makes me proud to see one of them, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam as our President when we announced and started this mission.
JAI HIND!!!
very informative..
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