ISRO’s Bhuvan to be launched in March, 2009
ISRO’s Bhuvan Satellite, slated for November launch will now be available in the month of March, 2009.
While Google Earth’s data is ~3-4 years old, Bhuvan will upgrade their data every year and also boasts of high resolution imagery of the order of 5 metres, which can be used for real-time exercises like disaster management and military operations.
Given the current issue with terrorists using Google Earth, ISRO is not sure whether to make the product available for general public or not.
What’s your suggestion to ISRO?
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bhuvan should not be made public given the resolution level of upto 10mts.But ISRO should make a scaled down version available to the junta!
Indians want to see what we are capable of!!
@sg, ISRO can hide the sensitive places and make the remaining available to the public
I doubt that ISRO has the ability to manage such a heavy service. There’s no way this thing is viable as a Google Earth competitor, and I have my doubts about its efficacy as a real-time tool, as well.
@Sumant, you should first understand that when it comes to space and space related issues a space research organization can give you a far better incite than an ordinary software company. But you r right that isro cannot compete with google as google can never come at par with isro in this sector. let alone isro if any other space research organization thinks about the same thing google is doomed to take the back seat.
@Sumant, i forgot to tell one more thing we are up front in it field not because of guys like you but because of guys who dream for a better future. it is said that the world is owned by optimistic people. pessimists are just bystanders who watch others work and sulk on their failures rather than doing something about it.
@sumant: all that India and ISRO needs is people like you.
That was very inspiring…. keep up the good work! No indian organization will ever be able to get there as long as they have people like you working for them. I am sorry if that hurts.
It is good if Bhuvan is capable of giving such precise info, but why keep it open to public. “Jantha” do not need such details as long as they are upto something BIG.
I dont want to track my neighbour’s daughter on the map.
safty for indian boundary should not be open for normal public but rest of the world map you can make free
@dhiraj, if you want to feel safe first thing to be done is burn all the maps available in the market as well as all the designs of buildings and other things from the government offices else you are never going to be safe. if terrorists did not have the facility of google earth they would have had the facility of maps. So it is not proper to say that since some unwanted persons access the data none of the other people who want to learn also should be deprived of the facilities. I am confident that ISRO will make sure that sensitive information and places will be hidden from view on the software
what is the difference if they make it public or not. all the details of each and every place and buildings can be made available to any person using maps and building designs. any ways it would be better not to show sensitive areas in the product which i presume will be taken care of by the capable people at ISRO. So I hope that the software comes out and is available to everyone. Hope it is available both on linux, unix, mac os as well as windows with support from XP above.
This software must available for general public use but ISRO must hide some sensitive places. We can use some safety tools either hardware or software to safe use and hide sensitive informations on earth on request or safety point of view. I attended SPAR 2007 at Houston, USA and meet some scientists and engineers. They are working on imaging technique like 3 – D lessor image technology. There are provision to hide sensitive areas. I hope, we will use Bhuvan for productive/useful work. I congratulate the all of scientists/engineers/programmers, who develop this software. Thanks ….. Kamlesh
ISRO is fooling the people. These types of news are politically motivated. Hidden agenda of ISRO is to get the service extension of the most corrupted executive of the country none other than the ISRO Chief Mr.Nair. Please visit UPA web and know more about his coruption stories. IIT educated Scientists are less becuae of his stupidity and lobby. Mr.Nair’s SUN mission announcement is evidenced that Mr.Nair is intellectually challenged man and not a Scientist. Note that Moon Impact Probe (MIP) not reached at MOON. But ISRO claiming its success. We heard that Mr.Nair will be removed from ISRO by the end of this March. Now he is playing with his last game through Bhuvan Satellite for further service extension. If ISRO got capability let them give atleast one snap of the MIP with tri color indian flag laying in the MOON surface. Poor public don’t know the dirty game of Mr.Nair. Chandrayan Mission was fraud. It is the ISRO’s best kept secret. It will known to the public soon. Please don’t react on Mr.Nair’s comments on Space Program.
Pluggd.in exclusive – ISRO understating its achievements.
In april/08, ISRO announced that it had put into orbit 10 micro satellites. Here’s the inside story. I have been told by a reliable source that the actual number was close to 50 !!. Now the breakdown of these 40 micro satellites.
> KSRTC Bus passes – 15
> Milk booth tokens – 10
> HMT watches – 10
> 3 nokia cell phones – 5
READ AND UNDERSTAND ABOUT ISRO….
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Subject: Kalam’s Brain Child (MIP) Buried at the Deep Space / Mr.Nair got PADMA award !!
Any Award to the New Maker Mr.G.Madhavan Nair, ISRO Chief will be shameful to the Scientific Community – A Report
MR.NAIR’S PADMA AWARD 2009 MUST BE WITHDRAWN
ISRO’s SUN MISSION – A CLEAR CASE OF Mr.NAIR’s STUPIDITY FOR PUBLICITY
Kalam’s Brain Child Buried at the Deep Space
A shameful Confidential Report to the Media and the Public for Circulation
An Exclusive Report from ISRO Community Bangalore
ISRO’s best kept-secrets
Hon’ble the Chief Justice of India Mr. Justice K.G.Balakrishnan in an exclusive interview with two Indian TV Channels says that the media can assist and help the judiciary. In the light of the connected reports appeared in the print media (16.01.2009) we urge all journalist/press/media to probe all issues against all CEO’s of our Country including the reportedly the most corrupted and most religious fanatic and the high-tech false NEWS MAKER none other than the ISRO Chief and Secretary Department of Space (DoS) Mr.G.Madhavan Nair “THE FUTURE SUN MISSION SPECIALIST “ at an early date and assist the Government of India and/or our judiciary for reconstruction of the Department of Space and Space Commission and its allied ISRO laboratories / centers for the national interest.
Though we are appreciating the efforts taken by the media for absorbing the sentiments of the public on MOON MISSION and its technologically undeserving publicity; we painfully disclose to the media that whereabouts of the MOON IMPACT PROBE (MIP), a brain child of Dr.Kalam, is not known to ISRO and it is presumed that entire instruments (MIP) and our Indian flag were burnt out at the deep space!. Recent video pictures uploaded in the ISRO website and snaps are superimposed (rather say manipulated as per the instruction of Mr.Nair) based on the NASA data for safeguarding the image of ISRO. If we disclose the failure of MIP, that will create a bad name to our country and our public will get demoralized. However, it is our morel responsibility to make known the corruption and maladministration of intellectually challenged ISRO Chief Mr.G.Madhavan Nair to the taxpayees of this country. All these BIG loss happened due to the adamant and foolish nature of the ISRO Chairman, Mr.Nair, who appeared in front of media as an innocent man.
ISRO could not drop successfully an Impact Probe to MOON, then how Mr.Nair can ask the Gov for multimillion Rupees for MANNED MISSION project to moon! Talented Scientists are required for developing basic technology before any mission planning. Note that Mr.Nair’s activities are uncharitable to the extreme. No honest Scientist will continue in ISRO if Gov keep-on elevates these types of unethical characters in key sectors like ISRO. Dr.Manmohan Singh is aware of Mr.Nair’s dirty game he extended his service due to Dr.Kalam’s pressure.
We urge the journalists to probe into all these issues and report honestly and assist our Government for taking thoughtful decisions for the public interest. We are preparing this confidential report with the help of Senior Scientists, who are belonging to South Indian Nair community. According to their own words “We are ashamed to disclose that we are belonging to Nair community because ISRO Chief will honour any stupid Nair without any merit. If it goes like this ISRO NAIR bus driver will become the ISRO Chief one day” This indicates that clever Nair employees are also frustrated. Only stupid and puppets are fit for Mr.Nair’s administration. This is a very dangerous situation of our country.
Coming to know about Mr.Nair’s maladministration, we learnt that UPA Government was reluctant to give any Padma award to Mr.G.Madhavan Nair and his chelas. To avoid unnecessary discussions Gov. finally decided to throw one award to ISRO Chief, though he is NOT deserving owing to the fact that MOON MISSION got high publicity due to the media influence without knowing the real scientific achievement. On the same ground the media may please take the initiative for withdrawing the same.
Briefly
* Had the ISRO espionage not been fired during the mid 90’s the US educated the brilliant Scientist Mr.Nambinarayanan would have been the first choice of the Chairman post of ISRO instead of the reportedly corrupted, religious fanatic and false news maker Mr.G.Madhavan Nair.
· Mr.G.Madhavan Nair was supposed to retire in October 2003 from VSSC. One month prior to his retirement Mr.Nair played dirty game with the support of BJP and Dr.A.P.J.Kalam resulting physically sacking a real Scientist Dr.Kasthurirangan from ISRO Chairman post under the pretext of Rajsabha nomination; rest the story of the ISRO NEWS MAKER.
· Later media (Source: Kalakaumudi daily) reported that Dr.Kalam was a Hitler. It is corroborating with many incidents. We are reserving further comments.
· It is well known in the Scientific community that Mr.Nair is not a Scientist and cannot ever be a Scientist due to his inherent inability. But he can be an unethical and a dirty politician, which he corroborated through NEWS MAKER award after cheating the scientifically ignorant and innocent public.
* ISRO records reveal that Mr.Nair went out of way for getting ISRO space institute. Why media is silent on the Ponmudi multi-crore land scam issue? What is the present status?
* Why media is silent on the status of the Moon Impact Probe (MIT). Please take the archives and re-telecast the predictions on MIP performance and pause questions to Mr.Nair.
* Why media is silent on Mr.Nair’s earlier announcement on free launch of Italian Satellite? Was it aimed for pleasing Ms.Sonia Gandhi for his undeserving service extension or anything else!
* Why media is not asking the reason for ISRO to going to French Gayana for INSAT launching? Million dollor loss to the Country in this regard. SNV Lavilin looss is very less compareRed to this. Report reveals.
* Why media is not asking the exact expenses of one PSLV mission and its revenue?
* Why ISRO is offering low cost launching to some selected countries? Repeated agreement with Italy refers.
* Why media is not probing the multi-crore corruption of Mr.Nair through outside rocket engine fabrication and foreign satellite launching from India and Indian Satellites from FRANCE !
* Why media is not probing on his and his chelas foreign travel?
* Why media is not probing on the ISRO’s brain drain?
* Why media were silent on Mr.Nair’s announcement on SUN mission? Now high school students are criticizing. Why media taking selective deafness on these issues?
* Why Mr.Nair is slowing down the GSLV project and frequently launching PSLV? It aims for multifold intensions. That may be probed. GSLV project managers are selected based on communal basis!
* Why media is not probing on the hidden agreement of Mr.Nair with European Space Agency (ESA) Chief? We should not ignore the fact that Indian multi-crore rupee is going to ESA for Mr.Nair’s personal gain.
* Why media is not probing on the performance of Indian satellites (an earlier report given below) at the orbit?
* Listed next ISRO chief, the current Director VSSC, is also a non-specialist and a chela of Mr.Nair. He was appointed at VSSC through malafied way. His appointment must be prohibited.
* Proper man, material, energy and money audits are inevitable at DoS/ISRO for unmasking the complete corruption histories of ISRO/DoS. Appointment of VSSC Director as Dr.Radhakrishnan Nair, a non-specialist, who belongs to the chela of Mr.G.Madhavan Nair needs to be examined in detail in the light of recent allegations on his appearance along with South Indian Nair community leaders at Kerala. Report reveals that Dr.G.Madhavan Nair nominated Dr.Radhakrishnan Nair for attending the same for getting communal support for getting an ISRO Chairman seat! We reserve further comments. Note that clever Nairs are against ISRO Chief Mr.Nair’s dirty communal game.
* We urge the South India Nair journalists to take a lead role ethically in this regard for removing Mr.G.Madhavan Nair from ISRO forthwith for the rapid growth of our country.
At this juncture we are prompted to send this fax/email to all known sources due to the arrest of the former Satyam Chief Mr.B.Ramalinga Raju, who was bestowed with “Honest Business Award-2007” !! We all know that in INDIA awards are readily available.
There are so many unfortunate incidents in ISRO. Poor public do not know the dirty game of Mr.G.Madhavan Nair, Secretary, Department of Space (DoS).
We will not be surprise to see the arrest of many more CEO’s of our Country including the Chairman ISRO Mr.G.Madhavan Nair on valid grounds. They were/are misleading the country and people for their personal gain at the cost of our taxpayers money.
We urge the media to take immediate steps to unmask the dirty personality of Mr.Nair and discharge your duties honestly for the National interest.
Jai hind
ISRO Employees
BANGALORE
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Isro satellite ‘disappears’, loses five years of life
Arun Ram
Saturday, December 15, 2007 08:34 IST
Insat-4CR recovered, but use of fuel to move it back to right orbit shortens life
CHENNAI: Here is one of the best-kept secrets of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro): Insat-4CR, launched by a geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-F04) on September 2, 2007, “disappeared” in space about a month later.
The satellite, which has 12 transponders meant for defence applications, direct-to-home (DTH) services and news gathering for television channels, was, however, “spotted” again with the help of the US-based National Aeronautics & Space Administration (Nasa) and brought back to a near geosynchronous orbit (36,000 km above earth). This took 15 days of manoeuvres, which consumed fuel normally meant for five years. This means the life of the satellite has come down from 10 years to five years.
A satellite’s life is determined by its fuel supply. As it keeps drifting in space, it has to be propelled back to the desired orbit using precious fuel.
A highly-placed source told DNA that Insat-4CR “disappeared” some time in October, almost a month after its orbit was raised for the fifth time to a near-geosynchronous orbit from the master control facility (MCF) at Hassan in Karnataka on September 7. The GSLV-F04 launch carrying Insat-4CR was critical for Isro after it lost Insat-4C #one minute after launch on July 10, 2006. Insat-4CR had a perfect launch, but the unusual drift in space was totally unexpected. Insat-4CR, weighing 2,130 kg, is identical to Insat-4C.
When its tracking systems failed to locate the satellite, Isro sought help from Nasa. The Nasa Orbital Debris Program Office located it a few days later. “Reclaiming the satellite was no mean achievement,” said the source, “but in the process, the satellite lost fuel meant for five years.”
Of the 12 transponders the satellite has, six are for Bharti’s DTH platform which is planned for launch in January 2008. Two others are for defence, one each for the Indian Railways and ONGC and the remaining two for different television channels.
Isro’s satellite communication programme director Bhaskar Narayan, however, denied any glitches to Insat-4CR. When contacted, a Bharti spokesperson refused to confirm or deny information about the satellite.
“All we can say is that our service levels and delivery schedules are unaffected,” the spokesperson said.
truly unfortunate incident
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We, a group of ISRO officials including a few belongs to KERALA Nair community of Department of Space, on ethical standpoint do hereby solemnly affirm and state as under:
That, we are well conversant with many of the corruption stories of the ISRO Chairman Mr.G.Madhavan Nair, which are suppressed by the BIG wings of the highest offices of our country including the Prime Minister’s Office and Hon’ble President’s Office during the tenure of Dr.Kalam. Report reveals that Kerala News Paper reported that Dr.Kalam was an Hitler (Source: Translated version of Kalakaumudi, 2007), who was supporting the corruption of Mr.G.Madhavan Nair!. Kerala space institute ponmudi land scam and other is evident in this regard. Prime Ministers Principal Secretary Mr.T.A.K.Nair took personal interest on Ponmudy land scam issue and personally met Kerala CM for settling it.
The media may please probe why the highest offices of our country supporting a corrupted executive like Mr.G.Madhavan Nair. Is it due to the limitation of the evidence act of our land and the connected FIR ?!
Briefly:
· ISRO espionage was evidently fueled by Mr.G.Madhavan Nair and his chelas for facilitating Mr.Nair to occupying the LPSC/ISRO Director post after removing the highly qualified ISRO Director Dr.L.Muthunayagam and his senior executives Dr.Nambinarayan and others who were fully exonerated through judicial intervention later. But at that time media could not discriminate the right and the wrong rather news were sensitized and sold out at the cost of ISRO Scientists life and liberty. It was demoralized the entire Scientific community. Had the espionage not been fired at that time the US educated the brilliant Scientist Mr.Nambinarayanan would have been the Chairman of ISRO instead of Mr.G.Madhavan Nair and his unproductive stupid missions.
Mr.Nair also realized that during his tenure howsoever its length he cannot lead a research team for GSLV realization and further his personal gain. Instead of prioritizing GSLV research; for meeting Mr.Nair’s hidden agenda a meeting was conveyed at ISRO and Mr.Nair declared that he will get Government approval for launching PSLV frequently aiming for getting media attention and public applause and further pleasing politicians and Gov for his undeserving service extension at the cost of tax payees money.
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ISRO to launch Israel ’s spy satellite
NEW DELHI : Israel has decided to launch its next spy satellite aboard India ’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rather than its own indigenous Shavit rocket, according to a report in “Spacenews,” Washington-based authoritative weekly on global space business.
The report quoting Israeli officials in Tel Aviv said that Israel’s Ministry of Defence and state-owned satellite producer Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd (IAI) are nearing conclusion with their Indian counterparts of all political and contractual agreements required for the planned October 2006 launch of the TechSAR, Israel’s first synthetic aperture radar imaging satellite.
“On the government-to-government level, a pre-existing bilateral accord on strategic cooperation (between India and Israel ) already covers most aspects of the mission,” the report said.
The estimated 260-kilogram TechSAR is slated as the exclusive payload aboard the PSLV, which will be launched from the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Satish Dhawan Space Center , the report said.
If all agreements are finalised in the coming months, as expected, IAI will ship the satellite to the Indian launch site by summer, it said.
# PLEASE FORWARD THIS MAIL TO ALL KNOWN SOURCES FOR THE INTEREST OF OUR COUNTRY.
Is the ISRO’s Bhuvan to be launched in March, 2009 ?
Can anyone provide the date of launching?
Kamlesh
ISRO news shocking. Is it true? if yes gov must take immediate action against the corrupted ISRO Chief Mr.Nair forthwith..It seems public are FOOLS…rather proved it by the ISRO unethical team…these type of practices in a democratic country like ours cannot be encouraged. They must be put in jail…or send them into KALAPANI…why journalist are silent? are they getting commission for not reporting the corruption stories of ISRO….A BIG BUDGET DEPT.
forwarded mail attached……shocking ISRO corruption news ….. AN OPEN LETTER TO DR.MANMOHAN SINGH The Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Sir, Sub: ISRO (False) News Maker and his SUN Mission! Once you had highlighted to our Nation that science must be harnessed in full. We too agree with you, Sir but the fact is that our Nation’s top research organization’s (ISRO) management is not capable to retain the best talents for meeting the needs of our country due to the unhealthy and unproductive working culture created by the present intellectually challenged ISRO Chairman Mr.(Dr.) G.Madhavan Nair (66). Now Mr.Nair is acting like a third-rated politician for publicity. Mr.Nair’s recent announcement through all TV media/press for SUN Mission created a VERY BAD image to the ISRO Scientists and now they are dejected to face even the high school students, public and scientific community due to embracing questions on SUN Mission. International forum is fingering the Scientific Community of India and laughing on Nair’s SUN mission. This was visible reflected during the Centenary Conference at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Nobody clapped their hands when some of the delegates from your office made passing reference on MOON MISSION success because Scientific community is aware of the real truth behind the MOON MISSION. Report reveals that even the Group D employees are laughing but our poor media seems keeping selective deafness presumably due to the ISRO Chairman’s post flight treat! The ISRO community will not be wonder to hear Mr.Nair’s further brainless statement “awaiting central ministry approval” on “MANNED MISSION TO SUN” for getting top NEWS MAKER award from some local daily. A man with minimum common sense will not make these types of statements openly. Sir, you can now easily infer how much blunder Mr.Nair is making within ISRO. If anybody opposes his blunders he/she will be demoralized in all respect. This is the main reason that most of the graduates/postgraduates from the top institutes of our country are leaving from ISRO. Mr.Nair made open comments that he will manage ISRO with diploma holders. Once this brains drain topic was came up for discussion before the Parliament but it ended without solution. Having known the ISRO unhealthy working culture the high profile Ph.D candidates are reluctant to apply to ISRO. We wonder why our media is NOT questioning Mr.Nair and his SUN Mission? Why they are not asking whereabouts of the Indian Flag carried by the CHANDRAYAAN? Why media is not asking about the useful outcome of the MOON MISSION. Why media is not revealing Mr.Nair’s hidden agenda? We heard that the popular Malayalam News paper figured ISRO Chairman’s name for NEWS MAKER AWARD-2008. We do have sympathy about it owing to the fact that our MOON MISSION was not a technological success because its main objective was not yet met; moreover the whereabouts of the instruments and the Indian Flag carrying the MOON IMPACT PROBE (MIP) is not known. Our service rules prohibit us to make open statement against Mr.Nair and his unproductive, dishonest and illegal dealings; so this communication to a talented Prime Minister like you, Sir for necessary action for examining the matter through an independent outside agency aiming to replace Mr.Nair from ISRO. Also you may please take necessary step for the smooth exit of 66 year old Mr.Nair from both ISRO and its connected ISRO-ANTRIX cooperation forthwith. Now Mr.Nair is planning MANNED MOON MISSION for further publicity and most of the central ministers without knowing the scientific fact appreciating the project. We must say that Mr.Nair is abusing the PSLV rocket for publicity instead of focusing on basic research for GSLV rocket development for getting revenue to the country, which is at the cost of the tax payees’ money. There is a say among common man “if you give poor mileage vehicle to your son he will spoil your family through big financial burden; similarly Mr.Nair is putting our country in burden through unproductive launches using the low performance PSLV for pleasing politicians under the pretext of Nations prestige (!!) for getting his undeserving service extension. Your advisor Prof.CNR Rao once commented we need Scientists for Nation building and not Managers of these type. Sir, please note that launching of GSLV is of urgent need to our country for that we need highly qualified Scientists. Henceforth we should not go to French Guyana for Satellite launching. Mr.Nair got hidden agenda in this regard. It will be unproductive to our country in all respect. Please divert fund for indigenization of GSLV on priority basis instead of approving unscientific missions. For meeting these challenges Sir, you may please find an internationally recognized Scientist on space science and technology with ethics and vision for the ISRO Chair/Secretary DoS post forthwith. As per your earlier published data we have only 157 Scientists and Engineers per million people involved in research and development. Korea (South) had 50 times more and the United States and Japan over 30 times more. Quality and output is another issue. In 10 years, China has overtaken India in the number of scientific research papers published in internationally peer-reviewed journals. In fact they published three times our number. Mr.Nair never published a paper in international journals. He had come up in ISRO through unfair way. We reserve further comments against ISRO Chair at this point of time. If the UPA government further entertain the BJP nominated Mr.Nair, the ISRO News Maker, our qualified Scientists number will decrease further exponentially, which will scuttle the development of our nation. Forwarded to you for your thoughtful decision at an early date. JAI HIND With warm regards, Scientific community of ISRO BANGALORE Cc: News Maker-2008 Award Committee / Press
bhuvan can made to access to public but aregion specific can be used such as users from from india can only access this facility can be made because
it will be useful for disaster management purpose.
If it can be done, how about providing high resolution and updated images to non-sensitive areas and low resolution and out-of-date images to sensitive areas?
VERY SHOCKING NEWS. HE MUSY BE PUT IN JAIL. A REAL CHEATER TO THE NATION. WHY INDIAN GOVERNMENT NOT REMOVING THE ISRO HIEF?
Why Mr.Nair given Z category security. It is shameful. This report reflects that he is not a SCIENTIST. Then why Z security?!!! Had he himself behind this dram? Gov may plz probe.
Dear Readers,
The greatest challenge in the Aerospace industry is the material selection. We don’t have any material in this world, which is capable to withstand high temperatures > 3000 deg C. The available high density refractory material (Magnesium 100 % Mgo) is not even capable to withstand a temperature above 2750 deg C. There is NO magic in industry for overcoming this temperature. Therefore one has to discover a composite material or find a technique to explore the high temperature zone of SUN without damaging the sensors/exploration probes. Note that even ISRO could not drop their MOON IMPACT PROBE (MIP) on the MOON surface (false claim is an open secret now). It is presumed that MIP melted before reaching the MOON surface because it has gone through high temperature zone. Without meeting these challenges the intention of Mr.Nair for making unknowingly (1) the FOOLISH comments about SUN mission in front of the media is OBVIOUS to those clever people who learn high school physics systematically. I being a metallurgist thought to share my views due to disputed arguments. There are many FOOLS (relatively speaking) for supporting his SUN mission. No doubt both FOOLS and TALENTS can think BIG. GOOD LUCK for your exploration.
Dr.Gapala sawmy Iyer
Visit and see the comments at
http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Indian_Space_Research_Organization_-_ISRO-155091-1.html
Reproducing one of the comments for public interest.
There is lots of praise everywhere about successful launch of un-manned moon mission. ISRO has not disclosed the real objectives of the
mission neither to the govt. nor to the public though the entire funding is through tax-payers pie. But some rumours are spread that mission is searching for water on moon. Some scientists are upbeat that for the first time Indian flag will be unfurled on moon surface. Some said the mission will get map of the moon. Some scientists say it’s a fitting answer to technology denial regimes. But the fact is that the Chandrayaan project head AnnaDurai was busy in space/moon exploration departments of John Hopkins University and 50% control of Chandrayan-1 is done from a USA satellite control station. In fact according to SPAN Magazine Aug2008 moon mapper is developed at John Hopkins University several years back and ISRO wants to send their latest moon mapper.
The top scientists at ISRO are misleading Indian Government about it’s real achievements. The media is adding fire to the hype by just praising the launch instead of asking fundamental questions about the mission. ISRO vows expaination to the country about the mission objectives in crisp terms instead of doing mere self praising. ISRO should also explain in detail about the indeginous content of the entire Chanrayaan-1, ISRO claims as completely indegenious is blatant lie.
Based on top scientists recommendation, govt. may release about 10,000 crores to fund manned mission. This is highly shameful project with little or no objective. The tax-payers money should not be wasted, instead govt. should look after the poor of the country and invest this big money in education, medical care,sanitation or agriculture where the results are quick and satisfying.
Very recently, CAG has rapped ISRO’s style of working, it has found that close to 70% of items and components are procured by single tendering without competition. For period 2001-2007 ISRO has spent about Rs.6000 crores and most of the transactions are not tranparent. Space ministry, top ISRO scientists and associated officials should explain with crisp clarity so as why so much money should be spent and for what.
Top media establishments/Govt. departments like CAG should probe ISRO’s transactions and should make public ISRO’s objectives clear to the Indian public. Why such big money should be spent for just self praising like “part of elite countries” etc etc. when ISRO itself is functioning with lots of corruption and misleading Indian public.
There should be fundamental change in the way money is spent for public benefit. For example India leads the world in ’Poorest’ sanitatised nation in the world, about 600 million people defecate in open everyday which is shame for not just India but also the Earth. Why can’t Rs.10,000 crore be spent on improving sanitation rather than discovering water on moon ? Why should we beg few million dollars from Bill Gates to fund Polio Vacination Program in India, why can’t we use the money wasted by ISRO for such humane purpose?
It’s time that commom sense prevail over hype and wasteful expenditure of tax-payers money.
Hi
now it is May so we passed march 2009
where is the link of ISRO? i really want to download it
thanks
I would like to have bhuvan opened for all.other mapping websites foccus mainly on european and american areas.pls make us proud once more being an indian
ISRO IS STILL FOOLING THE PEOPLE AND OUE GOV. PROSECUTE THEM
“There is a proverb in Tamil that no one can hide the Sun with his palm & all his fingers”. We can see Google Earth & can use GPS.
If not India,some Corporate sector is going to introduce high resolution imageries at cost first & then free.
If Bhuvan is free & avilable, every Indian can use for planning with micro details.I paid Rs 18,000 for google earth from my own pocket& used the data & imageries for government purposes.
We can design, verify datas supplied by field people, alignment of dam & canal at tabletop.We can reduce field works.Also Area, encroached can be earmarked for eviction.
Every farmer can visualize the terrain of his land & plan accordingly. GIS data can be stored.Every household,each person residing,his income,his marital status, his ration card,&what else, every data can be stored in spatial data.
These ISRO people don’t know this that google is selling google enterprises as hot cakes.These foxes are pretending as cows.
While google earth on the web giving every thing,What is the neccessity for BHUVAN.
You are always closing your eyes like a cat,saying “The wolrd will destroy if I open my eyes.”
Simply close BHUVAN and cool ya.
Never publish Bhuvan beat google earth.