Indian’s trolled ELITE group

Indian’s trolled ELITE group

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched a record 104 satellites, from seven different countries. The agency was using its PSLV-C37 workhorse for the mission, PSLV first launched the 714 kg CARTOSAT-2 Series satellite for earth observation and then injected 103 co-passenger satellites, together weighing about 664 kg at lift-off into polar Sun Synchronous Orbit, about 520 km from Earth.

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

today Indians trolled ELITE with same cartoon

CartoSat-2D ā€“ ISRO, India (1)
CartoSat-2D is fifth in the series of CartoSat-2 remote-sensing satellites that capture and send panchromatic and multispectral images of India from space.

INS-1A ā€“ ISRO
, India (1)
ISRO Nano Satellite-1A is an 8.4-kilogram research satellite that will stay operational for six months, and carry two science payloads. One is the Surface BRDF Radiometer (SBR) payload that can be used measure the Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) of targets on the Earth’s surface and will be able to take readings of the sunlight reflected off different surface features.

INS-1B ā€“ ISRO, India (1)
ISRO Nano Satellite-1B aboard the new PSLV-C37 rocket is also a modular satellite similar to the INS-1B, but weighs 9.7 kilogram.

Flock-3p ā€“ Plant Labs, United States of America (88)
ISROā€™s PSLV-C37 will take Planet Labsā€™ 88 Flock-3p nano-satellites to space, bringing the total number of Dove satellites in space to 100.

Lemur-2 ā€“ Spire Global, United States of America (8)
Eight Lemur-2 nano-satellites operated by Spire Global of the USA, each of which carries a meteorological payload that can determine the atmospheric pressure, humidity and temperature using signals from GPS satellites in Earthā€™s atmosphere.

Al-Farabi-1 ā€“ Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan (1)
The Al-Farabi-1 is a nano-satellite developed by students of the Kazakhstanā€™s Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

BGUSat ā€“ Ben Gurion University, Israel (1)
A 3U CubeSat nano-satellite developed by Israelā€™s Ben Gurion University, BGUSat carries two imaging payloads, an experimental GPS receiver and an optical communication experiment.

Nayif-1 ā€“ Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST), UAE (1)
Students at UAEā€™s Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) developed the Nayif-1 nano-satellite and will be used for educational purposes.

DIDO-2 ā€“ SpacePharma, Israel and Switzerland (1)
DIDO-2 is a microgravity research nano-satellite that can be used to conduct biochemical and physical experiments in micro-gravity.

PEASS ā€“ PEASS Consortium, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and Israel (1)
PiezoElectric Assisted Smart Satellite Structure or PEASS is a nano-satellite that can be used to evaluate and qualify ā€˜smart structuresā€™ which combine composite panels, piezoelectric materials, and next-generation sensors.

The PSLV-C37 rocket launched by ISRO carries satellites from many different countries as part of Antrix Corporation Limitedā€™s deals with the operators of these satellites.


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