Isro Can Thwart Off an Attack by China Against India
ISRO is developing many technologies. It has built a supercomputer which is India’s fastest. It has launched and put many satellites in space. It has even sent a lunar mission. The satellites of ISRO can monitor India China border and check a Chinese attack against India.
ISRO CAN THWART OFF AN ATTACK BY CHINA AGAINST INDIA
Finer satellite imagery at cheaper prices
ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) has made available to the Indian users earth imagery data upto 1 metre at lower prices. Till now, users could get images only upto 5.8 metres. ISRO’s earth observation satellites can obtain images upto 80 cm in resolution. These remote sensing data are used by industrial installations, township planners, highway builders and regional planners in the private sector. Defence is the main user in government sector. Because of this impractical limit of 5.8 m resolution, private operators were opting for data from foreign satellites at a higher cost of $17 per sq km compared to ISRO’s cost of $2 per sq km. This makes commercial sense also to ISRO. Antrix, the commercial arm of ISRO makes sales of Rs.1000 crore every year through its commercial data. Now this sales figure will increase.
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China’s attack on India
ISRO has done a yeomen service in development of satellites and obtaining imageries from them. This will strengthen India’s defence from its arch enemy China. One of the reasons why India was defeated by China in the 1962 war that led to the loss of 32000 sq km of territory was because China indulged in the attack surreptitiously and without warning. More than lakh Chinese soldiers assembled in the India-China border McMahon line and started the attack suddenly. The Indian army was caught unaware. At that time in 1962, there was no satellite technology. Even USA had not entered into the space science in a big way. Only USSR had sent the first man Yuri Gagarin into space through the Sputnik spacecraft.
India can retaliate with nuclear option
But today, if China embarks a similar (mis)adventure against India, it will be exposed. Any assembling of Chinese troops across the Indian border will not escape the notice of the ISRO satellites. Immediately the information will be conveyed to New Delhi, which will then press the nuclear button against Beijing. China is aware of this.
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