Isro Can Thwart Off an Attack by China Against India

GPS technology for civil aviation

Use of GPS (Global Positioning System) is well known for mobile phone users. But it requires more precision for GPS to be used in civil aviation works. Even a small error can cause a plane to crash. ISRO’s technology is useful in this sphere of activity also. ISRO has also helped Singapore through its PSLV launch vehicle to put its C-16 experimental micro satellite X-SAT in orbit. It has already started transmitting images to a dedicated facility in Singapore.

Transponders

ISRO is setting up many facilities to upgrade its technology. It is setting up a hypersonic wind tunnel to study a re-entry. It is setting up a plasma wind tunnel to study the behaviour of materials at high speed. It is setting up a national database for emergency management and a multi mission earth observation centre for satellites. It is also setting up an advanced research and development centre for spacecrafts. ISRO is also trying to integrate the sub systems of rockets at Sriharikota since they are manufactured in different parts of India. ISRO has 151 transponders and another 150 will be added in another one to two years time. 86 transponders have been leased from the foreign satellite operators. TV channels are eagerly awaiting the addition of more transponders for their telecasting purpose. The failure of two satellites has greatly disappointed them.

Supercomputer

ISRO has built a supercomputer. It is India’s fastest one in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 teraflops (220 trillion floating point operations per second). It is a GPU-based supercomputer and is named as SAGA-220. It will be handy for space scientists dealing with complex aerospace problems.

Resourcesat-2 can check Chinese infiltration

Resourcesat-2 has three cameras mounted on a single platform with a high resolution, medium resolution and coarse resolution. Its images will reveal snow cover in the mountains, glaciers advancing and also urban landscape. If it focuses its cameras on India China border, it can reveal lot of things including encroachments by the Chinese army. NASA has asked ISRO to build an orbiter that will provide the communication between the soil samples collected from the far side of the moon and the earth. The joint venture will be part of the Moonrise missions planned by NASA. ISRO plans to put Chandrayan-2 in moon’s orbit in 2013. It will cost Rs.462 crore. It will be a joint mission with Russia even though the spacecraft and rover will be built by ISRO. The lander will be from Russia.

ISRO will defeat China’s designs

ISRO plays a crucial role not only in boosting India’s status amongst the world community as a progressive nation with indigenous space technology, but also in defending India’s borders with China. We do not need ISRO for protecting us against Pakistan. If Pakistan wages an outright war against India again (the last war was fought in 1971 in which Pakistan was truncated by our army) it will be broken into pieces. But China cannot be equated with Pakistan on the same pedestal. China is a mighty superpower militarily and economically – it is far superior to India. We need nuclear deterrent to keep China in check. This is possible only through the work of ISRO. ISRO needs to be protected and encouraged in all its technological missions. The Indian government has allocated Rs.6626 crore for space development in its annual budget.

Manmohan Singh – more danger to India than China or Pakistan

Unfortunately ISRO was dragged into a controversy when the precious S-band spectrum was leased to Devas Multimedia at a throw away price. This daylight robbery planned and executed cleverly by the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (he is in charge of ISRO) was exposed by the media. The amount that would have been siphoned by Manmohan Singh would have crossed even the 2G spectrum scam amount of Rs.176000 crore. Today, Manmohan Singh is the biggest thief in Indian government. Under his custody, nothing is safe. Scams after scams are breaking out. Manmohan Singh is more a danger to India’s security than China or Pakistan.