Chinese space officials are now planning an October 2004 launch for Shenzhou 6, a two-person mission to last up to seven days

What happened??!

Better hurry up..you got to send a probe to the moon too!!
by next year..
or shall we just delay that as well..
What IS up with the chinese manned program??
Haven't heard anything since Yang lewei


India's lunar ambitions:

Currently, some of the best images available for commercial sale come from India, which offers to the public images from its Earth-imaging satellites, which have a resolution of up to fiv
e meters.

India already is a so-called Satellite Operating Partner in the Eros A, a remote sensing satellite launched in December 2000 by ImageSat International, an Israeli-led firm that offers high-resolution imagery on the international market. Eros A, which also is built by IAI, contains technologies developed for Israel’s Ofeq-series of military satellites, and the spacecraft is capable of capturing details measuring less than one meter in diameter when employed in certain conditions.

The company’s follow-on Eros B satellite is expected to offer multi-spectral images of greatly improved resolution under a similar Satellite Operating Partner (SOP) format that essentially grants customers ownership of the satellite over a designated footprint. In India’s case, the government’s security establishment would be able to order the satellite to capture images of interest anywhere within an estimated 1,240-mile radius, with no control, involvement or even knowledge of ImageSat management.

India also is building a radar remote sensing satellite called Risat, capable of capturing images through dust and darkness. It is scheduled for launch in 2006. Additionally, the state agency launched in June 2001 its indigenous Test Evaluation Satellite, capable of delivering images measuring about 1 meter across.

Ikonos won’t be lonely much longer, said Joseph Dodd, vice president of national programs for Orbital Imaging Corporation (Orbimage), a subsidiary of Orbital Sciences Corporation. His company is set to launch two OrbView, high-resolution imaging satellites in 2001.

Also, another U.S. company, EarthWatch is ready to hurl its QuickBird 1 into orbit next month, Dodd said. Add to that mix a host of commercial high-resolution satellites built by Russia, Israel, France and India and you’ve got "very stiff international competition," Dodd said.

Originally posted by chinawhite
the tomahawk is highly accurate. now tell me if the brahmos can do that.

During the Pokhran test BrahMos searched, located and destroyed a 50-cm thick concrete bunker with pinpoint accuracy.

While national media have reported a hypersonic Mach 8 variant of BrahMos to be developed in future, the Western defence media circles are anticipating a sub-sonic or transonic (near the speed of sound) Land Attack Cruise Missile (LACM) variant with an estimated range of 800-km to 1,400-km. In any case a Mach 8 variant of BrahMos will indicate a major technological breakthrough by the Russians in the context of the propulsion components of solid booster and liquid kerosene ramjet engine.

For their part, Indian scientists have for at least a decade, been working on solid-state lasers for use as super-high-speed ignition systems to arm missiles, although their present status is a closely guarded secret

A Mach 8 passive radiation homing BrahMos-2 if developed, will fulfil an Indian Navy requirement of a formidable Suppression of Enemy Air Defence (SEAD) LACM and also pose a deadly threat to enemy warships sporting elaborate air defence radar systems like the "AEGIS type" vessels under construction for the Chinese People Liberation Army Navy (PLAN).

The quest for a Brahmos LACM variant was hinted at in a test at Pokhran during December 2004, the missile being equipped with special image processing software for terminal homing. Although not officially stated, it could well be a Digital Scene Matching Area Correlator (DSMAC) variant, which uses a zoom lens to collect images and matches them with the snaps of the approach to the target stored in the memory, to conduct precision strikes against an array of enemy counter-force and counter-value targets ranging from airfields to overland communications, command and control centres and powerful air defence installations.During the Pokhran test BrahMos searched, located and destroyed a 50-cm thick concrete bunker with pinpoint accuracy. The Indian Army in anticipation of inducting the missile by 2007 has raised and begun training its first core group to man the cruise missile.



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Originally posted by Daedalus3

India's lunar ambitions:

www.space.com...

India's remote sensing monopoly in the COMMERCIAL market..link below quote:

Currently, some of the best images available for commercial sale come from India, which offers to the public images from its Earth-imaging satellites, which have a resolution of up to fiv
e meters.

www.space.com...

If 5 metres is the best commercial res available and that too pioneered by India then one can only speculate about India's military remote sensing capability

[edit on 16-5-2005 by Daedalus3]

Originally posted by Stealth Spy

While national media have reported a hypersonic Mach 8 variant of BrahMos to be developed in future, the Western defence media circles are anticipating a sub-sonic or transonic (near the speed of sound) Land Attack Cruise Missile (LACM) variant with an estimated range of 800-km to 1,400-km. In any case a Mach 8 variant of BrahMos will indicate a major technological breakthrough by the Russians in the context of the propulsion components of solid booster and liquid kerosene ramjet engine.

For their part, Indian scientists have for at least a decade, been working on solid-state lasers for use as super-high-speed ignition systems to arm missiles, although their present status is a closely guarded secret

A Mach 8 passive radiation homing BrahMos-2 if developed, will fulfil an Indian Navy requirement of a formidable Suppression of Enemy Air Defence (SEAD) LACM and also pose a deadly threat to enemy warships sporting elaborate air defence radar systems like the "AEGIS type" vessels under construction for the Chinese People Liberation Army Navy (PLAN).

The quest for a Brahmos LACM variant was hinted at in a test at Pokhran during December 2004, the missile being equipped with special image processing software for terminal homing. Although not officially stated, it could well be a Digital Scene Matching Area Correlator (DSMAC) variant, which uses a zoom lens to collect images and matches them with the snaps of the approach to the target stored in the memory, to conduct precision strikes against an array of enemy counter-force and counter-value targets ranging from airfields to overland communications, command and control centres and powerful air defence installations.During the Pokhran test BrahMos searched, located and destroyed a 50-cm thick concrete bunker with pinpoint accuracy. The Indian Army in anticipation of inducting the missile by 2007 has raised and begun training its first core group to man the cruise missile.



Source

Originally posted by chinawhite

Originally posted by Daedalus3

India's lunar ambitions:

www.space.com...

India's remote sensing monopoly in the COMMERCIAL market..link below quote:

Currently, some of the best images available for commercial sale come from India, which offers to the public images from its Earth-imaging satellites, which have a resolution of up to fiv
e meters.

www.space.com...

If 5 metres is the best commercial res available and that too pioneered by India then one can only speculate about India's military remote sensing capability

[edit on 16-5-2005 by Daedalus3]

WHat the Ikonos is american dont get mixed up
it even says that

www.space.com...
your same article

what a loser cut and paste articles together