Feb 16, 2017 06:54 AM
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Global media hails India after ISRO launches 104 satellites
http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-f...es-2324251
EXCERPT: ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C37 today injected India's weather observation Cartosat-2 Series satellite and 103 nano satellites, including 96 from the US, into orbit after a textbook lift-off from Sriharikota space centre. The launch was "another success for the Indian Space Research Organisation, which is rapidly gaining a reputation globally for its effective yet low-cost missions," The Washington Post said, noting that India has already sent up dozens of satellites, including 20 at once last year.
The New York Times said that by sending a flock of 104 satellites into space within minutes, nearly tripling the previous record for single-day satellite launches and establishing India as a "key player" in a growing commercial market for space-based surveillance and communication. "The launch was high-risk because the satellites, released in rapid-fire fashion every few seconds from a single rocket as it traveled at 17,000 miles an hour, could collide with one another in space if ejected into the wrong path," the paper noted.
"Forget the US versus Russia. The real space race is taking place in Asia," CNN commented. London's Times newspaper reported that by today's feat, India has reinforced its ambition to join the elite space- faring nations....
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ISRO launch: Twitter trolls New York Times for two-year-old cartoon mocking Mangalayan Mission
http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-i...on-2323633
EXCERPT: . . . But in the midst of the success and several congratulatory messages, a number of individuals on Twitter recalled a 2014 cartoon by The New York Times that allegedly poked fun at India's Mangalayan Mission to Mars. he cartoon showed a farmer with a cow knocking at the door of a room marked 'Elite Space Club' where two men sit reading a newspaper on India's feat. On September 24, India made history by successfully placing its spacecraft in orbit around Mars, becoming the first country in the world to succeed in such an inter-planetary mission in the maiden attempt itself.
At the time, Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor of the New York Times, wrote in a Facebook post that a "large number of readers" had complained about the cartoon. "The intent of the cartoonist, Heng Kim Song, was to highlight how space exploration is no longer the exclusive domain of rich, Western countries," Rosenthal said.
But Twitter isn't quick to forget and a series of tweets trolling the New York Times began after the successful launch:
Knock Knock !! @nytimes
ISRO launched 104 satellites in a single mission
& Pls note 96 out of 104 satellites launched by ISRO were of USA. pic.twitter.com/UoMAg5U9HN
— Rishi Bagree (@rishibagree) February 15, 2017
@rishibagree @nytimes it's 'In Your Face' time. They won't acknowledge India and it's success. Spare their inferiority. We're above it all
— Truly SHINING BHARAT (@hpBhat28) February 15, 2017
ISRO launches 104 satellites in one go. Your move @NASA
— Sagar (@sagarcasm) February 15, 2017
http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-f...es-2324251
EXCERPT: ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C37 today injected India's weather observation Cartosat-2 Series satellite and 103 nano satellites, including 96 from the US, into orbit after a textbook lift-off from Sriharikota space centre. The launch was "another success for the Indian Space Research Organisation, which is rapidly gaining a reputation globally for its effective yet low-cost missions," The Washington Post said, noting that India has already sent up dozens of satellites, including 20 at once last year.
The New York Times said that by sending a flock of 104 satellites into space within minutes, nearly tripling the previous record for single-day satellite launches and establishing India as a "key player" in a growing commercial market for space-based surveillance and communication. "The launch was high-risk because the satellites, released in rapid-fire fashion every few seconds from a single rocket as it traveled at 17,000 miles an hour, could collide with one another in space if ejected into the wrong path," the paper noted.
"Forget the US versus Russia. The real space race is taking place in Asia," CNN commented. London's Times newspaper reported that by today's feat, India has reinforced its ambition to join the elite space- faring nations....
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ISRO launch: Twitter trolls New York Times for two-year-old cartoon mocking Mangalayan Mission
http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-i...on-2323633
EXCERPT: . . . But in the midst of the success and several congratulatory messages, a number of individuals on Twitter recalled a 2014 cartoon by The New York Times that allegedly poked fun at India's Mangalayan Mission to Mars. he cartoon showed a farmer with a cow knocking at the door of a room marked 'Elite Space Club' where two men sit reading a newspaper on India's feat. On September 24, India made history by successfully placing its spacecraft in orbit around Mars, becoming the first country in the world to succeed in such an inter-planetary mission in the maiden attempt itself.
At the time, Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor of the New York Times, wrote in a Facebook post that a "large number of readers" had complained about the cartoon. "The intent of the cartoonist, Heng Kim Song, was to highlight how space exploration is no longer the exclusive domain of rich, Western countries," Rosenthal said.
But Twitter isn't quick to forget and a series of tweets trolling the New York Times began after the successful launch:
Knock Knock !! @nytimes
ISRO launched 104 satellites in a single mission
& Pls note 96 out of 104 satellites launched by ISRO were of USA. pic.twitter.com/UoMAg5U9HN
— Rishi Bagree (@rishibagree) February 15, 2017
@rishibagree @nytimes it's 'In Your Face' time. They won't acknowledge India and it's success. Spare their inferiority. We're above it all
— Truly SHINING BHARAT (@hpBhat28) February 15, 2017
ISRO launches 104 satellites in one go. Your move @NASA
— Sagar (@sagarcasm) February 15, 2017