Hi friends, you may have read in News that India Achieved its RE ENTRY Technology. RE Entry Tech. Means, When a Space Shuttle is to be returned back to the earth, Shuttle will get exploded when it enters the earths atmosphere, due to the excess heat (around 29000 degrees) and Friction due to Gravity. Now if we have RE ENTRY Technology in Hand, You can decrese the speed of returning shuttle, step by step and the shuttle will enter the earth safely. Yesterday 22-01-07, is a Golden Day for ISRO (Indian Space Research Org), when it applied Re Entry successfully to SRE-1.. India is the 4th country in world with this Technolgy, and prior to India US, Russia and China achieved this Technology. Its a step to Indias Project "CHANDRAYAAN" , which intends to send Man to Moon by 2012 or so. So all Indians , Be proud of this achivement.
The is a great news .The launch has demonstrated India’s capability in technologies like aero-thermo structures, navigation, guidance and control. Mind that it was a precise operation with deviation of only 20 nautical miles. It is also an important beginning for providing a low cost platform for experiments in space science and technology and return specimen from space.