The Prime Minister of India said that the country has achieved enormous progress in science and technology and India's scientific development must be strong enough to realize the dream of sending a man to the moon * A ballistic missile launched by India The Agni 3 missile is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead; India hopes to test the missile later this year
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India also wants to send a spacecraft to the moon. This was announced at a meeting of India's leading space scientists who met to assess the feasibility of a mission that has been in the pipeline for several months.
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), which hosted the meeting, said the unmanned mission would likely be launched in 2008. However, there is no plan to send an astronaut to the moon.
ISRO Chairman K. Kastoirangan said the project "will electrify the nation and show the world that India is capable of handling a complex project at the forefront of space exploration. It's not a question of whether we can afford the Pruitt but whether we can afford to ignore it, he said. The project is supposed to cost 3.5 billion rupees, which is approximately 74 million dollars.
As part of the program, a sensing satellite weighing 250 kilograms is expected to be sent to be launched by the satellite launcher in the polar orbit developed in India. The project is planned to explore the surface of the moon.
ISRO officials said the final approval for the project would come from the federal government, headed by Atal Bahri Vagapay. In January, the prime minister was quoted as throwing his weight behind the project.
Vajpayee said that the country has achieved tremendous progress in science and technology and India's scientific development must be strong enough to realize the dream of sending a man to the moon.
In September 2002, India successfully launched its first weather satellite which it hopes will help the country predict cyclones and storms more accurately. Earlier, in 2001, it successfully attempted the launch of a rocket designed to launch geostationary satellites (communication satellites) into space, thereby demonstrating the ability to launch heavier payloads to a higher orbit.
Only the USA, Russia and Japan have flown spacecraft to the moon (and the USA is of course the only one that has also flown manned spacecraft). Europa will launch its first lunar mission in July this year. China has already announced that it will begin a mission that will also include manned flights later this year.
India is developing a missile with a range of 3,400 km
India's Defense Minister, George Fernandez, told an Indian news agency today (Sunday) that India is making efforts to conduct a test this year with the Agni 3 missile it is developing. The missile is able to reach a range of about 3,400 km, and like its first two versions, it is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
India claims that it needs the Agni 3 missile to defend itself from its neighbors - Pakistan to the west and China to the north - with both of which it has fought wars in the past. "The missile test was already supposed to be carried out. We feel it is essential to our military deterrence policy," said Fernandez.
In 1998, India and Pakistan conducted nuclear tests that caused outrage in the international community, and drew economic sanctions from the US and other Western countries. The sanctions were gradually lifted after the two joined the international fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
In the second version of the Hagni missile, which means "fire", the missile reaches a range of about 2,300 km. The Hagni 2 is operational and deployed in the units of the Indian Army. It is capable of hitting any point in Pakistan, and reaching deep into China's territory. According to the Federation of American Scientists , an organization that monitors the armament of countries in the world, the development of the Agni 3 began in 1999. In addition to the Agni missiles, inventory India's weapons also include the short-range "Prithvi" ballistic missile of about 150 km, and recently conducted tests on the "Bramus" supersonic missile, which was developed in cooperation with Russia and is capable of hitting targets in Pakistan.
"Apart from Agni and Prithvi, the supersonic Bramus missile is exclusive to India. No other country currently has this missile," Fernandez said. "We are now ready (for its deployment). All the experiments are over."
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