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Space Forum / Shuttle / August 2005More details on the Indian recoverable satellite plan
More details on the Indian recoverable satellite plan. Does the recoverable module have the size to carry a pilot, I wonder? http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=99916 Isro all set to join satellite rescue club HUMA SIDDIQUI Posted online: Monday, August 22, 2005 at 0000 hours IST India will join a select club of countries when it launches its first recoverable satellite in early 2006. As the world watched with bated breath the re-entry of space shuttle Discovery into the earth's atmosphere over California, back home in India, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working on a major project to demonstrate the capability to recover an orbiting space capsule. Well 600 kg I guess it s more like the Chinese capsules for retrieval of photographic samples I guess. Is it a purely ballistic capsule or as it got a GNC and thrusters, allowing guided entry and cross range ? The article is forgetting Japan among the countries having reentry technology (OREX, USERS, etc) what is with the attachment? Brian  SignatureBrian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email. graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them Email: briang1@blueyonder.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ > More details on the Indian recoverable satellite plan. > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > working on a major project to demonstrate the capability to recover an > orbiting space capsule. > what is with the attachment? I have no clue -- maybe I ought to run some defensive software. Op Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:35:38 +0000, schreef Jim Oberg: >> what is with the attachment? >> > I have no clue -- There is *no* attachment in your message. > maybe I ought to run some defensive software. Of course you ought to. You are running Windows and Outlook Express, and you can't trust those by themselves. If you would ever be looking for a replacement Usenet program, but still could not leave Windows, try (Free) Agent <http://www.forteinc.com/> - you have probably already heard about it. My personal favourite is Pan <http://pan.rebelbase.com/> - it's made for Unix/Linux but available for Windows as well. I heard good things about the Windows version. Thunderbird <http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/> is pretty much the coolest thing now and it does both mail & news - like Outlook Express, but nicely. > Op Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:35:38 +0000, schreef Jim Oberg: Danke! > > Op Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:35:38 +0000, schreef Jim Oberg: > > > Danke! It's 'Bedankt!' Jim. He's not German but Dutch. There is a difference, you know ;) Op Wed, 24 Aug 2005 03:00:40 +0000, schreef Jim Oberg: > Danke! Je vous en prie ;) > Op Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:35:38 +0000, schreef Jim Oberg: > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > There is *no* attachment in your message. The original post has a trans.gif attachment. I'm not going to try opening it. Hop David http://clowder.net/hop/index.html Op Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:22:23 -0700, schreef Hop David: >> Op Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:35:38 +0000, schreef Jim Oberg: >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > The original post has a trans.gif attachment. I'm not going to try > opening it. Why not? Don't you have an antivirus program? :) Anyway, the attachment did not come through at this end, not a trace of it. Perhaps my ISP is running a decent & safe usenet service after all... (in fact I'm trustful that they do). I'm also quite sure that even if there was a virus, I would not be hit by it. At all. I know this because 99.999% of all viruses are targeted against Windows and Outlook (Express), due to their inherently *unsafe* design and behaviours. And I use neither. If Jim is really sending out attachments without knowing it should be a definitive wake-up call for him. Boy, it's really Windows-disinfection time! :) Need any help with that? At the very least, after cleaning your computer and installing updates, antivirus, firewall etc. - do kick the Outlook Express habit. If you absolutely must persevere in maintaining bad habits, consider fine cigars and red wine. They are not forbidden (yet) and give much more pleasure than any poorly designed computer program ;) >> what is with the attachment? > > I have no clue -- maybe I ought to run some defensive software. Maybe, Jim - I see my ISP didn't get your original post. Maybe it was filtered because of an attachment? Signature"Fame may be fleeting but obscurity is forever." ~Anonymous "I believe as little as possible and know as much as I can." ~Todd Stuart Phillips <www.angryherb.net> "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in news:MNJOe.94851$G8.36626 @text.news.blueyonder.co.uk: > what is with the attachment? A 43-bytes, 1x1 pixel, 1-bitplane gif depicting a white dot. As to why it is there, I'd hazzard Jim selected a white background and Outlook thought that forcing the remote computers to render the full window as a matrix of repeated images would be a neat idea. :-) SignatureDoing AIX support was the most monty-pythonesque activity available at the time. Eagerly awaiting my thin chocolat mint. Can it capture cobalt bombs previously placed in orbit? That capability would go a long way to bring peace of mind to the world. > More details on the Indian recoverable satellite plan. > > Does the recoverable module have the size to carry a pilot, I wonder? At 600 kg, this seems like it would be pretty tight. Vostok 1 mass was 2,460 kg <http://www.astronautix.com/craft/vosok3ka.htm>, but did scale up to 3 people at only 2,900 kg. Now given that this capsule is one of two 600kg payloads on the same flight, it seems pretty clear that India could pull of a 1 man capsule pretty quickly if they really wanted to, and weren't to concerned about safety or comfort. > Now given that this capsule is one of two 600kg payloads on the same > flight, it seems pretty clear that India could pull of a 1 man capsule > pretty quickly if they really wanted to, and weren't to concerned about > safety or comfort. Obviously you've never flown on Air India :-) > > Now given that this capsule is one of two 600kg payloads on the same > > flight, it seems pretty clear that India could pull of a 1 man capsule > > pretty quickly if they really wanted to, and weren't to concerned about > > safety or comfort. > > Obviously you've never flown on Air India :-) LOL! |
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