ORBIT ACHIEVED. 🚀
Vikram-1 Test Flight-1 has reached orbit. India's first privately developed orbital rocket has completed its final burn and injected its payloads into a ~450 km orbit, making India the third country in the world with private orbital launch capability.
History is made. 🇮🇳
#Vikram1 #JourneyToOrbit #SkyrootAerospace
@prakdadlani Stop scamming people. You're building a BEAST in Bharat that is already listed on Alibaba by a Chinese manufacturer 🤣🤣
Thought you were doing something better in India than misleading people
@elonmusk Elon is the biggest "free speech absolutist", acquired Twitter to "restore free speech", his ultimate goal is to make a "maximum truth seeking machine."
The level of marketing was impressive!!
Congratulations India, @isro has successfully launched the heaviest GEO communication satellite from Indian soil. The Indian space sector is soaring high to provide valuable services to the user community in and around the Indian region.
- Dr. V. Narayanan
Secretary, DOS/Chairman, ISRO
@earthcurated Thank you for being part of this beta program. Due to low returns, we will shortly relocate the hot plasma ball to a more viable project. We appreciate your understanding.
@AshwiniVaishnaw When someone from the government talks about 'Digital India' I just feel sad about those government websites.
You can get the real flavour of digital India when you have to go through the processes on those websites ending with gov .in
SpaDeX Docking Update:
🌟Docking Success
Spacecraft docking successfully completed! A historic moment.
Let’s walk through the SpaDeX docking process:
Manoeuvre from 15m to 3m hold point completed. Docking initiated with precision, leading to successful spacecraft capture. Retraction completed smoothly, followed by rigidisation for stability. Docking successfully completed.
India became the 4th country to achieve successful Space Docking.
Congratulations to the entire team! Congratulations to India!
🛰️🛰️
#SPADEX #ISRO
@vijayshekhar@Paytm Happy new year in advance sir! My suggestions are:
1. Offer customizable UPI IDs (eg, vss123@ptsbi) to enhance privacy. Using phone numbers in UPI IDs often leads to spam calls.
2. Simplify the UI, as most users find it a bit difficult to use compared to other UPI apps
The rationale behind the 70 hour work week is "it is necessary for economic development". If you look at East Asia - Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China have all developed through extreme hard work, often imposing punitive levels of work on their own people.
These very countries also have such low birth rates now that their governments have to beg people to make babies.
Two questions arise: 1) is such hard work necessary for economic development? 2) is such a development even worth the price of a lonely old age for a large mass of people?
My response to the first question is that it is enough if only a small percentage of the population drive themselves hard. Please note the "drive themselves" - I am in that camp but I am not willing to prescribe this to anyone else. Some percentage of the population will drive themselves hard (may be 2-5%). I believe that is sufficient for broad based economic development, and the rest of us can have decent work life balance. I believe such a balance is needed.
On the second question, no it is not worth it. I don't want India to replicate China's economic success if the price is China's steep demographic decline (which has already started). India is already at replacement level fertility (southern states well below that already) and further declines to East Asian levels won't be good.
I do believe we can develop without needing to work ourselves to demographic suicide.