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An Indian rocket successfully orbited a cache of four satellites Wednesday in the first space launch of the year. This was from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh The four-stage rocket and its payloads arrived in orbit about 16 minutes after launch, and deployment of the satellites was completed about four minutes later. Also released from the rocket's upper stage was the Space Capsule Recovery Experiment, a 1,200-pound (544-kilogram) cone-like craft that is India's first recoverable satellite. Indian space officials hope a successful mission for the capsule will lead to the development of a recoverable platform for scientific experiments in microgravity.

The rocket also put the first Indonesian built satellite into space, Indonesian officials said. India also launched a remote sensing satellite of new and advanced specifications and an Argentinian satellite in the same launch. Later this year India will launch an Italian astrophyics laboratory.

IMO: If only India would build some quiet pollution free cars, presumably electric or multifuel, and I am sure it could, instead of just letting international capitalist criminals grab the land of hard working Indian peasants. India has always been a country for the rest of the world to look up to and respect and we want that respect to be on the increase.