Indian Space Program Discussion

wig · Post by **wig** » 16 Jul 2012 09:07

GSAT-10 to be launched in two months, says ISRO chief

India's 3400-kg communication satellite GSAT-10 is now ready to be shipped to the spaceport at Kourou in French Guiana for launch by European space consortium Arianespace in two months, according to Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman, K Radhakrishnan. "GSAT-10 with 30 transponders is ready to be shipped for launch. This launch is expected in the middle of September," Radhakrishnan, also Secretary in the Department of Space and Chairman of Space Commission, said on the sidelines of the 39th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) being held here.

Officials of the Bangalore-headquartered space agency said it is a three-axis body stabilised geostationary satellite that is based on ISRO's three-ton structure to provide communication services and augment existing services. It carries 12 normal C band, six extended C band and 12 Ku band transponders. The satellite will have a minimum operational life of 15 years. — PTI

key features

*z It will provide communication services and augment existing services

*z It carries 12 normal C band, six extended C band and 12 Ku band transponders

*z The satellite will have a minimum operational life of 15 years

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120716/nation.htm#18

member_19648 · Post by **member_19648** » 16 Jul 2012 14:40

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/scienc ... 642657.ece

GSAT-10 to be launched in 2 months: ISRO --> Nice progress made on the Indigenous cryogenic engine front.

India’s 3400-kg communication satellite GSAT-10 is now ready to be shipped to the spaceport at Kourou in French Guiana for launch by European space consortium Arianespace in two months, according to Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman, K Radhakrishnan.

“GSAT-10 with 30 transponders is ready to be shipped for launch. This launch is expected in middle of September,” Mr. Radhakrishnan, also Secretary in the Department of Space and Chairman of Space Commission, said on the sidelines of the 39th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) being held in Mysore.

Officials of Bangalore-headquartered space agency said it is a three-axis body stabilised geostationary satellite based on ISRO’s three-ton structure to provide communication services/augment existing services. It carries 12 normal C band, six extended C band, 12 Ku band transponders. The satellite will have a minimum operational life of 15 years.

Mr. Radhakrishnan said ISRO hopes to conduct flight testing of its Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle (GSLV) with indigenous cryogenic engine and stage by January next year.

GSLV flight with indigenous cryogenic engine and stage conducted by ISRO in April 2010 and the one with Russian engine and stage in December that year had failed.

“We have done a lot of studies to find out the reason for the failure and taken corrective actions. We have conducted almost 40 tests on subsystems as well as on the engine. A couple of weeks ago, flight engine was tested for 200 seconds.

That’s cleared for assembly as a flight stage,” he said.

Cryogenic engine and flight stage should be ready by November. ISRO needs to conduct two more ground tests before committing the flight, which is expected by the year-end or January next year, Mr,. Radhakrishnan said.

Mr. Radhakrishnan said ISRO planned Chandrayaan-II mission in 2014, after successfully conducting two GSLV flights.

ISRO proposed to launch the 1500-kg Astrosat, a multi-wavelength observatory in space next year. Astrosat is the first dedicated Indian Astronomy mission, which will enable multi-wavelength observations of the celestial bodies, cosmic sources in X-ray,visible and UV spectral bands simultaneously.

“Within one year, we will be able to launch Astrosat because all the instruments are going through final evaluation in the space environment,” Mr. Radhakrishnan said.

He also said the ‘SARAL’ satellite, a joint ISRO-French Space Agency (CNES) mission, is planned to be launched by a PSLV from Sriharikota spaceport by October-end this year. “The instruments are basically to look at ocean parameters,” he said.

ISRO officials said SARAL would provide data products to the operational and research user communities in support of marine meteorology and sea state forecasting, operational oceanography, seasonal forecasting, climate monitoring, ocean, earth system and climate research.

merlin · Post by **merlin** » 16 Jul 2012 16:01

GSAT Ku band transponders will be used for DTH. It seems that Tata Sky is waiting anxiously for GSAT-10 to be launched so that they can claim the applied for transponders and increase their offered channels.

Anyone know the bandwidth of the Ku band transponders?

Austin · Post by **Austin** » 17 Jul 2012 09:57

A nice film on Cosmonauts/Astronauts

9 minutes before space
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJPB-F8C168

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 17 Jul 2012 17:29

GAGAN on course for FOC June2013
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/new ... 018105.cms

member_23626 · Post by **member_23626** » 17 Jul 2012 19:24

Singha wrote:GAGAN on course for FOC June2013
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/new ... 018105.cms

IIRC this was supposed to happen in early-late 2012 right?

Austin · Post by **Austin** » 17 Jul 2012 22:01

Russia Offers India Joint GLONASS Development

Russia has offered India joint participation in development of its GLONASS satellite navigation system on an equal basis, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Tuesday.

"We have offered our Indian counterparts not only use of the Glonass system but also participation in upgrading it. We practically see it as a joint effort. I think our Indian counterparts will be interested in it," said Rogozin, who has special responsilibity for Russia's military-industrial complex.

sukhish · Post by **sukhish** » 18 Jul 2012 02:27

not a boad proposition

merlin · Post by **merlin** » 18 Jul 2012 09:21

Only it if is not at the cost of our own GPS-like system.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 18 Jul 2012 09:58

why dont we participate in this JV, build the sats on a common arch, with some of our own stuff added and then launch and operate a few on our own to cover the asian landmass in 3 or 4 orbital planes. that way we get the satellite tech quicker and probably cheaper, and get independent control of our own constellation.
theres nothing which says our sats have to developed 100% inhouse , and none of our sats are - they feature components from europe, israel...

for redundancy we can continue to access the GLONASS mil-grade signal also for a couple decades more

vasu raya · Post by **vasu raya** » 18 Jul 2012 10:16

Pre-condition is its not just a funding program at the expense of domestic programs then JV should be taken forward with a Iridium type of sat network with our low costs we can make it competitive, Russia can do mass production (system integration) with us being the component supplier

In Flight entertainment, Business meetings
Predator service
Emergency services
Alternative to Wimax
Global cellular services?

basically undercutting Iridium's market

kit · Post by **kit** » 18 Jul 2012 22:18

Hiten wrote:
kit wrote:This is the petaflop era. OT but wonder how the indian attempt is going along !
10 petaFLOPS is the target set by C-MMACS. Had issued an EoI this February.

perhaps a year or two would be required to get a petaFLOPS facility

OT , but projected date for a pFlop seems to be 2017 ..Thanks

A Sharma · Post by **A Sharma** » 19 Jul 2012 17:15

HAL Delivers Indigenous Propellant Tank to ISRO

Bangalore, July 19, 2012: HAL has delivered the first fully indigenous fourth stage propellant tank (PS4) of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) recently. “The indigenisation effort has resulted in foreign exchange savings of Rs 1.2 crores”, says Mr. R.K. Tyagi, Chairman, HAL.

The PS4 tank is a part of the fourth stage of PSLV. It will carry 1.6 tonnes of liquid propellant Mono-Methyl Hydrazine (MMH) as fuel and Mixed Oxides of Nitrogen (MON-3) as oxidiser during the flight. The machining of all parts for this tank is carried out at HAL and the welding work is carried out at Liquid Propulsion Centre of ISRO and HAL. The raw material is from Midhani and BHPV. This successful indigenization has been achieved because of coordination amongst four government agencies HAL, BHPV, Midhani and ISRO.
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Hiten · Post by **Hiten** » 20 Jul 2012 10:58

Iranian Space Agency Invited By ISRO To Cospar Space Meet
http://ow.ly/cmWlC

AsianScientist (Jul. 18, 2012) – Iran is the only country whose space agency is represented at a space exhibition taking place this week in India.

The exhibition has been organized as part of the 39th scientific assembly of the Committee on Space Research (Cospar) which is now being held at Mysore.

Though nearly 2,500 space scientists from 74 countries are participating in the nine-day international space meet, the Iranian Space Agency, however, is the only foreign space organization which has a presence at the exhibition which opened yesterday.

This can be interpreted as sending a strong signal to those countries which are somewhat opposed to India’s friendship with Iran. The Iranian presence is therefore, not entirely without political overtones.

The Iranian space program has been condemned by the US and Europe because of their concern over its military potential.

When Asian Scientist Magazine sought a response from the Iranian representative, Shahram Yazdanpanah, he said: “We are ready to co-operate and discover the universe. Our space program is completely peaceful. The Iranian Space Agency consists of scientists who are not political.”

“The participation of Iran in the exhibition reflects the growing ties between India and Iran. This is the first time Iran is displaying its space achievements in India. When the Iranian Space Agency received an invitation from ISRO to take part in Cospar, the former decided to respond positively,” Yazdanpanah said.

According to him, the space agency will showcase its abilities to launch satellites and also explain the history of Iran’s space program which, he reiterated, was entirely for peaceful purposes.

Yazdanpanah has been contracted by the Iranian Space Agency to set up the stall at the exhibition. Up until Monday night, he was the representative of the space agency because officials from the organization had not yet arrived from Iran as they were still in the process of obtaining their visas.

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kit wrote:
Hiten wrote: 10 petaFLOPS is the target set by C-MMACS. Had issued an EoI this February.

perhaps a year or two would be required to get a petaFLOPS facility
OT , but projected date for a pFlop seems to be 2017 ..Thanks

the 2017 facility would be built to have exaFLOPS capability

Austin · Post by **Austin** » 20 Jul 2012 12:09

Can PSLV be converted into Man Rated Launch vehical for transporting Astronaut or for Supply platform to Space Station like IIS ?

member_19648 · Post by **member_19648** » 20 Jul 2012 14:25

Austin wrote:Can PSLV be converted into Man Rated Launch vehical for transporting Astronaut or for Supply platform to Space Station like IIS ?

Unlikely, I read somewhere there is payload restriction of 1500 kg on the PSLV, so ISRO was waiting for the GSLV launch, and I believe 2013 is the year for that.

SaiK · Post by **SaiK** » 20 Jul 2012 18:18

that russian offer is juicy.. providing us the option of upgrading it.. think about Russian coverage.. in terms of reach. whereas GAGAN would (even politically) only cover Asia zone.

I would say, get that offer.. get it going soon. while GAGAN does all the local Asia zone, with a module to integrate with GLONASS.. perhaps a GAGAN-gLONASS interface module right in the space itself.

This is so strategic for the future!

Austin · Post by **Austin** » 22 Jul 2012 15:59

Ivanev wrote:Unlikely, I read somewhere there is payload restriction of 1500 kg on the PSLV, so ISRO was waiting for the GSLV launch, and I believe 2013 is the year for that.

Man Rating a launch Vehical would need tremendous reliability something PSLV has demonstrated and PSLV-XL payload to LEO is around 3,800 kg , should be good enough for a crew of 2 with Payload Capsule to reach something like IIS.

GSLV is a long shot as it has to demonstrate continuous reliability over many launches ,also I am not sure if any one has man rated a Cryo ( Hydrogen/Oxygen ) stage ...if we wait for GSLV then it would take more than a decade to man rate the rocket.

The best bet for india for manned space program is to join IIS if that were to be possible , even Japanese have been sending astronaut to IIS cant see why we shouldnt be part of it.

Sridhar · Post by **Sridhar** » 22 Jul 2012 17:25

The Space Shuttle's first stage had a LOX/LH2 cryogenic engine.

Austin · Post by **Austin** » 22 Jul 2012 21:13

Sridhar thats true but our program is not a Shuttle more like Soyuz ...but even if they man rate the GSLV at some stage we are clearly looking at a decades time ...we can do it in far less time with PSLV.

Wonder if ISRO would be interested in working on a Soyuz follow up for Manned Program atleast the crew Advanced Crew Vehicle

member_20036 · Post by **member_20036** » 24 Jul 2012 17:02

http://www.aame.in/2012/07/gsat-7-insat ... itary.html

kit · Post by **kit** » 24 Jul 2012 17:41

I dont think sending a man to space or say a manned lunar mission is high on the GOI agenda., as of now.Only the mars mission has a go.

Tamang · Post by **Tamang** » 26 Jul 2012 21:45

Satellites see Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt

Son Nghiem of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. was analyzing radar data from the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Oceansat-2 satellite last week when he noticed that most of Greenland appeared to have undergone surface melting on July 12. Nghiem said, "This was so extraordinary that at first I questioned the result: was this real or was it due to a data error?"

Nghiem consulted with Dorothy Hall at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Hall studies the surface temperature of Greenland using the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites. She confirmed that MODIS showed unusually high temperatures and that melt was extensive over the ice sheet surface.

Thomas Mote, a climatologist at the University of Georgia, Athens; and Marco Tedesco of City University of New York also confirmed the melt seen by Oceansat-2 and MODIS with passive-microwave satellite data from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder on a U.S. Air Force meteorological satellite.

The melting spread quickly. Melt maps derived from the three satellites showed that on July 8, about 40 percent of the ice sheet's surface had melted. By July 12, 97 percent had melted.

Nghiem's finding while analyzing Oceansat-2 data was the kind of benefit that NASA and ISRO had hoped to stimulate when they signed an agreement in March 2012 to cooperate on Oceansat-2 by sharing data.

More in the article!

arun · Post by **arun** » 02 Aug 2012 07:42

X Posted from the “Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP) : 24 July 2012” thread.

Comparison of the National Space Agencies of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and India causes much heart burn to the Express Tribune which finds its national space agency SUPARCO’s performance substantially lagging India’s ISRO:

Lagging behind: 2040 - Pakistan’s space od[d]yssey

VenkataS · Post by **VenkataS** » 02 Aug 2012 08:09

India announce major mission to Mars

Four years after successfully launching a moon probe, India has decided to make another ambitious space effort by sending an orbiter to Mars in November 2013.

TSJones · Post by **TSJones** » 03 Aug 2012 20:24

It will be thrilling if you guys can send an orbiter to Mars! As you guys know, Mars is one tough mutha'. It would be a mjaor step forward in India's capabilities. The moon probe was accomplished by an increasing eliptical orbit around earth until lunar gravity caught the probe and pulled it into a lunar orbit. You can't do that with Mars. You've got to kick the orbiter out of earth orbit with an upper stage rocket and send it to Mars under deep space guidance. What a feather in India's cap that would be! Not just anybody can do something like that. The Russian Phobos Grunt mission failed to leave earth orbit just last year, although we Americans were accused of sabotaging with our radar. :-/

The US has had its own failures in Mars missions and currently, we are sitting on pins and needles waiting for the Mars Science Lab mission Curiosity rover to land on August the 6th. It is a highly controversial mission in its landing technique and a lot of people do not think it will work. We will soon find out.

Anyway, here's hoping India can send an orbiter to Mars!

SaiK · Post by **SaiK** » 03 Aug 2012 23:16

Thanks TSJones, we hope the same too. What I would like to add is, our Mars mission should carry some lander.. if not a full blown rover kind, but at least some university mission to land a mini-rover [perhaps Anna univ one?].. This can give good metrics for subsequent landing.. Having gone that distance, it would be waste not to include a lander.

Go robotics!

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PS: arun, request - don't post paki stuffs in this pristine thread.

AbhiJ · Post by **AbhiJ** » 04 Aug 2012 03:46

SaiK wrote:Thanks TSJones, we hope the same too. What I would like to add is, our Mars mission should carry some lander.. if not a full blown rover kind, but at least some university mission to land a mini-rover [perhaps Anna univ one?].. This can give good metrics for subsequent landing.. Having gone that distance, it would be waste not to include a lander.

Go robotics!

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PS: arun, request - don't post paki stuffs in this pristine thread.

The biggest issue is with the Atmospheric Re-Entry in Martian Atmosphere.

pentaiah · Post by **pentaiah** » 04 Aug 2012 03:58

So Ralphy got kicked out at the other blog?

Kakkaji · Post by **Kakkaji** » 04 Aug 2012 05:12

Welcome back TSJ!

I hope you are more circumspect in your postings this time. Would not like you to be cutletted (look it up

) again.

Kakarat · Post by **Kakarat** » 04 Aug 2012 09:03

Cabinet clears Mars mission

Kakarat · Post by **Kakarat** » 04 Aug 2012 09:32

India to launch three satellites next month

NDTV wrote: India will launch three satellites next month and two more by the end of this year, said a senior official here.

"We will be launching Spot-6, a French satellite and a small Japanese satellite on board PSLV-C21 (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) rocket, next month," P.S.Veeraraghavan, director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), told IANS.

The third is a communication satellite GSAT-10 on board Ariane rocket from Kourou in French Guiana.
...
He said ISRO is also planning to launch GSAT-14 a small communication satellite by this December or January next year using its heavier rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).
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ISRO will be flying the GSLV rocket this time with its own cryogenic engine. This will be the second GSLV rocket to fly with indigenous cryogenic engine. The first GSLV rocket that flew with indigenous cryogenic engine in 2010 was a failure.

Interestingly, ISRO will be flying a GSLV rocket after a gap of two years. In December 2010, another GSLV rocket with Russian made cryogenic engine was destroyed mid-air within a minute after lift off.

Veeraraghavan said ISRO will be testing its GSLV Mark III model next March but without the cryogenic engine.

"The mission is called X Mission. The rocket will have only the first two stages/engines powered by solid and liquid fuels. The subsystems for the cryogenic engine are being tested. The cryogenic engine is much bigger than the one that will power other GSLV," Veeraraghavan said.

Don · Post by **Don** » 04 Aug 2012 15:09

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/235c487a ... z22ZN1jx2s

India’s Mars ‘fantasy’ defies earthly woes

Indian space engineers are planning a satellite mission to Mars next year despite demands that the government should focus on more urgent terrestrial matters such as power shortages, poor sanitation and disappointing monsoon rains.

Officials of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) said they expected the cabinet to approve the $80m mission soon, speaking to reporters in the same week that north India suffered two days of electrical grid failure that affected more than 600m people, entering history as the world’s worst power cut.

“What India needs now is a mission to grow and to reform, rather than a mission to Mars,” said Jagannadham Thunuguntla, head of research at SMC Global Securities. “India has been facing too many other challenges . . . Space technology beyond a certain level is a luxury.”

Jean Drèze, a development economist, agreed. “I don’t understand the importance of India sending a space mission to Mars when half of its children are undernourished and half of all Indian families have no access to sanitation,” he said. “It seems to be part of the Indian elite’s delusional quest for superpower status.”

India boasts that it cut the number of people living below the poverty line from 37 per cent of the population to 30 per cent in the five years to 2010, but that income line is set an exceptionally low level of about 50 US cents a day. Of children under five, 42 per cent are officially categorised as underweight, and even Manmohan Singh, the prime minister, has called the country’s malnutrition levels a “national shame”.

India and China have raced to launch moon shots and other space projects over the past decade, but China has moved ahead of its Asian rival and in June this year put its first woman astronaut into space as part of a mission to test docking procedures for a proposed manned space station by 2020.

Mr Singh once justified India’s investment in space by saying that “a base of scientific and technical knowledge has emerged as a critical determinant of the wealth and status of nations and it is that which drives us to programmes of this type”. But India suffered a setback in December 2010 when a rocket carrying a communications satellite veered off course and exploded in the second launch failure in less than a year.

News of the Mars plan sparked contrasting reactions on newspaper websites. Some Indians mocked ambitions they regard as a waste of resources amid so much hunger and poverty, while others expressed pride that their country was competing with space powers such as the US, Russia and China.

But a contributor from Mumbai wrote: “Go India Go! Poverty and illiteracy is something that cannot be eradicated in a decade . . . India needs this space mission. Russia and USA prospered because of the space race.”

Curiously, Isro’s own website proudly highlights a statement by the late Vikram Sarabhai, father of the Indian space programme, in which he champions technology for solving humanity’s problems and rejects the “fantasy of competing with the economically advanced nations in the exploration of the moon or the planets or manned space flight.” Isro now has projects in all three of these areas.

Isro’s hopes for the Mars orbiter, which would study the planet’s atmosphere, were boosted five months ago when the national budget set aside Rs1.25bn ($22.4m) for the mission in the current financial year, but the project still needs cabinet approval.

Andrew Kenningham, senior global economist at London-based Capital Economics, said the fact that India could contemplate a Mars mission when it was unable to provide electricity to half the population showed the Soviet-style “disconnect” between its superpower ambitions and its “largely third world” reality.

However, he added, there was no real connection between the space programme and the problems in the power sector, any more than there was between India’s nuclear weapons and widespread malnutrition. “There is no reason why the government can’t fix the power problems and pursue its vanity projects simultaneously.”

“If all these Indian politicians are going to be kicked out of Earth and sent off to Mars, then I certainly welcome this move,” said one post from Chennai on The Times of India’s website. “Otherwise it is an utter waste of so much money.”

member_23694 · Post by **member_23694** » 04 Aug 2012 15:48

i wonder how will the following configuration work for the manned mission

4-6 Uprated Vikas engine as strap on
Cluster of 2 Vikas Engine as in GSLV Mark 3 as the first and 2nd stage.

At launch start with the strap on's only and the first stage ignited after the burnout of the strap on.

Doesn't the Chinese have all liquid launcher for manned mission.

With the proven Vikas engine and a simple 2 stage configuration ...it can be a reliable launcher......
It may be a bit costly vehicle...but here the aim will be 100% reliability as the world will be
watching.....

Any opinions

abhijitm · Post by **abhijitm** » 04 Aug 2012 16:02

Don wrote:http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/235c487a ... z22ZN1jx2s

India’s Mars ‘fantasy’ defies earthly woes

A load of BS I would say. History tells us journey of the progress of a civilization is defined by the technology it research

1. Any space program is nothing but a huge R&D lab funded by the government
2. All space programs boast spin-off technologies. More you undertake missions, more technologies you research and those then eventually feed local economy. Read wiki NASA spin-off technologies
3. Help to retain local talent and create knowledge bank
4. unidentified long term benefits

The article in FT is another western attempt to prevent our progress in research and development of the technologies that they proudly own.

merlin · Post by **merlin** » 04 Aug 2012 16:56

The words upto a certain level is very, very interesting. Develop space technology only until the Western countries do not get gaand main khujli due to our progress. Soon as it starts affecting their eechandee out comes these articles. That Jean Dreze mofo is from NAC isn't he?

member_22539 · Post by **member_22539** » 04 Aug 2012 17:19

The really funny part is how these western nations were all piss poor with people starving to death and worked to death when the explored and conquered most of the world, had their Industrial Revolution and bled us older civilizations dry. These people think just because there were no cameras to record their peasants back then and Indian gutter inspectors writing about their plight, the world has forgotten these basic facts. Anyway, the way I see it, if they are actually feeling threatened enough to whine like this, we must be on the right track.

sum · Post by **sum** » 04 Aug 2012 17:39

Jean Drèze, a development economist, agreed. “I don’t understand the importance of India sending a space mission to Mars when half of its children are undernourished and half of all Indian families have no access to sanitation,” he said. “It seems to be part of the Indian elite’s delusional quest for superpower status.”

Just replace "space mission to mars" in this MoFo's sentence to "NAC"

AbhiJ · Post by **AbhiJ** » 04 Aug 2012 17:44

merlin wrote:The words upto a certain level is very, very interesting. Develop space technology only until the Western countries do not get gaand main khujli due to our progress. Soon as it starts affecting their eechandee out comes these articles. That Jean Dreze mofo is from NAC isn't he?

Very Good Catch. Interesting Karaktur.

Wiki:

He is a naturalized Indian of Belgian origin.

He had conceptualised and drafted the first version of the NREGA.

10 days after he exposed fraud, Jean Dreze aide killed

Ten days after he helped expose embezzlement of MNREGS funds in Jharkhand’s Rankikala, leading to an FIR against a former block development officer, a close aide of social activist Jean Dreze was beaten to death in Manika block of Latehar district yesterday.

Niyamat Ansari, 35, is the second aide of Dreze, one of the architects of the rural employment scheme, to have been killed in Jharkhand.

member_23694 · Post by **member_23694** » 04 Aug 2012 18:06

check this out....

http://www.firstpost.com/tech/isros-pri ... 04986.html

and i completely agree....

Space projects are a big YES....but manned mission should be a priority and cryo and semi-cryo engine should get
utmost attention rather than a 25 kg payload to mars.....

why do we need to wait for the next year to test the GSLV MARK 3 without the cryo.....

Our launch vehicle program is really struggling.....