I just want to say that from today please don't make fun of Indian failures. We don't deserve it. It is not fair because India tries new things and fails, Pakistan never dares to enter high tech fields, so it is succeding since independence.
Now the important lesson:
I am sure Pakistani engineers today are watching India. The reason why India is so ahead in this field is that we have patience. Patience is the ultimate success secret.
Slow and steady we keep progressing. We face failures and fall behind with shatterred confidence, then make a comeback. Pakistan was the second in Asia to launch a space rocket, it could be a world leader, it is not because you guys never understood the meaning of sustained and long term development. Investments that will pay off in long run. Pakistan always found the easiest ways to do things.
Finally only those countries will succeed that will keep patience, vision to do something and collaboration.
Its never too late. India will now get ahead with its new Mk3 beast, Pakistan can make a start with small rockets in collboration with Iran.
@karan.....we don't need anyone's approval for our accomplishments.
+ I really don't understand why we compare ourselves always to Pakistan (we have good space tech. than Pak, missile tech., military, etc.), it is a economy 1/8th of ours. I ask u does China compare itself with India in whatever it achieves?? China wants to be US & compares itself with it in whatever it does & if we really are obsessed to compare ourselves to others than why not with China.
+ If Pakistan wants to have a good success in space, it has to take lessons from it's own as well as India's experience:
1. SUPARCO had a full 8 years lead over ISRO, but it has never taken advantage of first entry in space over India.
2. ISRO is one govt. organisation which has complete autonomy & GOI doesn't interfere much in it's affairs unlike others & scientists are the one who take all the decisions for ISRO (right man for right job), the best example is the Mars mission, when the ISRO scientists said that this mission is a must for India than GOI approved the mission as quickly as possible, if the same request was made by other govt. organisations for some other project, i don't think it would have been passed so swiftly. On the other hand SUPARCO has been under the eye of PA for many years after it's formation. The only thing the PA personnel presiding over SUPARCO were interested in was the missile & nuclear tech that can defend themselves against attack from India, the importance of satellites & other space tech (even for fulfilling purpose of war) was the thing they hardly were interested in.
3. The budget of just $75 million is in no way will do any better for the space aspiration of Pakistan, i know Pakistan is a poor country like India, but GOI has made a healthy budget for ISRO in $1.3 billion to fulfill the country's space needs. The first thing the GOP can do is to increase the Space body's budget to atleast $200 to $ 300 million (some sacrifices should be made for the long term development of the country, why not start with a decrease in budget for nuclear arsenal??).
4. Pakistan has to set goals for it's space agency like India does for ISRO, short term goal should be to make it's own completely indigenous communication satellites, mid term goal should be to develop indigenously all possible satellites (communication, spy etc.) & the long term goal (in a decade or so) should be to make it’s own rockets on the lines of PSLV & GSLV.
5. Sign MOU's & take help from whichever space agency or country that is ready to offer help to Pakistan, & for that matter why not take help from ISRO itself, i have no doubt whatsoever ISRO will be ready to help in tech. that is not of dual use to Pakistan.
Patience, Experience, sustained budget & non interference by either the GOI or the PA will be the key to achieve all this.
