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Article: By K. S. Jayaraman, Indo-Asian News Service
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- January 13, 2007
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Bangalore, Jan 13 -- Indian space scientists say the thermal protection technology for the recoverable space capsule they launched "is 100 percent indigenous", denying speculation that it came from the US.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) borrowed the idea from the US space agency NASA but the process for producing the tiles is different and entirely indigenous, it is claimed.
The capsule is covered with insulating tiles to protect it during re-entry just as the US space shuttle but the similarity ends there, a top official said.
"Our technology is totally different and our approach (to making the tiles) has been different," B.N. Suresh, director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space ...