Bharat Rakshak

satellite W2M fails
http://www.rediff.com/news/2009/jan/31i ... -space.htm

Bad news

Remote-sensing satellites usually circle the Earth at a height of a few hundred kilometres. ISRO plans to put a Cartosat-type camera on a satellite that will be placed in geostationary orbit at a distance of about 36,000 km. In this orbit, the satellite matches the Earth’s rotation and therefore ...

Brazil has been included in this project as equal partner.

http://www.patricksaviation.com/forums/?t=3013

For MTA, Irkut is off and Ilyushin is on?

TOI says that it has been partial success.
can someone confirm it?

Yo!!!

krishnan wrote:Time now is 10:05 AM

what's the update???????

has there been some crash right now?

SaiK wrote: other than the ABM, we should also start off (or has it been?) an anti-cruise missile system. ACM, and use brahmos as the target missile that has high G maneuvers.

Barak-2???

Is THEL only $3K/ hit? What is the hit probability? Sounds pretty good. Hope, this can be improvised for ABM/ ACM capabilities. Also, are we not already working on similar areas? If I remember correctly, KALI supposedly has similar applications. Any recent updates about KALI etc? I have few links f...

The Katyusha rockets dont fly at anywhere near the speed of a ballistic missile. A manoevering ballistic missile with decoys will be almost impossible to hit. Like finding a needle in a haystack. THEL costs about 3k $ per hit... cheapest of all Missile Defense. if improved, it still can destroy cra...

America's ballistic missile defense systems can't actually hit anything, so they're really just a drain on America's budget and an addition to their current account deficit. As for the laser shield, it's nowhere near implementation , again because of targeting. Atleast with guided missiles there is...

I am not sure if this thing has already been discussed here... however i was greately surprised to see what Amreeka aims to do in BMD http://www.missilethreat.com/systems/sbl_usa.html Space-Based Laser (SBL) "The Space-Based Laser (SBL) is one of the United States’s most daring and sophisticate...