India launches 20 satellites in single mission

Re:India launches 20 satellites in single mission by curiousgal on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @03:14AM (#11952081)

Of course they are not. But the merits of India's space program are a debate worth having in my opinion. All the other space programs (except for NK) were started when their nations were doing okay socially at least. Sure, the profits may be redirected to fixing those social issues but lives are being lost the longer they delay that.

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Re:India launches 20 satellites in single mission by IndianAstronaut on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @04:56AM (#11952388)

Indians spend several times more money on Bollywood and Cricket than the space programs. Space programs are not what needs to be targeted for budgets.

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Re:India launches 20 satellites in single mission by josephmx on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @05:58AM (#11952620)

I'm not sure you can compare cricket with government spending, unless the government massively donates to sport and movies?

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Re:India launches 20 satellites in single mission by mindondrugs on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @07:42AM (#11953047)

The Indian Goverment has a budget of Rs. 1541 Crores (£155,000,000~) for the Sports Department

http://www.hindustantimes.com/union-budget/sports-ministry-g...

And the space program has a budget of Rs. 7,927 crore (£799,871,700) according to wikipedia.

So to address your point, yeah India spends quite a bit on Sports, but no way near as much as their Space Program.

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Re:India launches 20 satellites in single mission by iprateek on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @09:17AM (#11953619)

And the Government would spend Rs 221,246 crore on roads and railways alone.

http://www.livemint.com/Politics/zdmiM68OZXnq2Kg5sMJESI/Budg...

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