India to launch satellite using own cryogenic engine (BBC)

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India will soon launch an advanced communications satellite, put into orbit for the first time by a cryogenic engine developed by its own scientists.

Cryogenic engines are rocket motors designed for fuels that have to be held at very low temperatures to be liquid. They would otherwise be gas.

Officials say that only five countries in the world have this technology.

BBC science reporter Jonathan Amos says a successful launch would be another milestone for India's space programme.

Our correspondent says handling supercold (croygenic) propellants is not easy and the announcement of next week's launch is a significant development for India as an emerging space power.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8607939.stm




Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day.

Deny a man a fish, and he'll design and build his own damned fishing pole and poke your eye out with it.




So much for the idea that brown people can't build fancy machines without help. Again.

[Oregone]

1. "Officials say that only five countries in the world have this technology. "

Countries that are fervently using it to feed and house their people

[RandomThoughts]

2. Thanks for the laugh.

:rofl:

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day.

Deny a man a fish, and he'll design and build his own fishing pole and poke your eye out with it.



Got to go with,

'Order of the Stick' on that one.
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0004.html
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0005.html

[TheMadMonk]

3. Thanks a lot. Way to waste an hour of my day. NT

[RandomThoughts]

5. I have spent hours reading that also

pretty witty little cartoon. :D

[TheMadMonk]

4. And someone owes me a new G15. "Evan's Tentacles of Forced Intrusion"?

Giggling and wincing simultaneously.