29. space oriented system
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has necessary expertise and facilities for development, fabrication and testing of payloads for scientific experiments onboard Indian Satellites. These facilities are available to Indian scientists in other laboratories and organisations desirous of performing space science experiments. Rocket and balloon payloads for space science experiments have been developed and fabricated at ISRO, NPL, PRL, TIFR, CESS, Gujarat and Poona Universities.
The payload integration and test facilities and the launch of sounding rockets are provided by ISRO. The payload integration and launch for balloon experiments are carried out from national balloon facility at Hyderabad. Satellite payloads relevant to space science research have been designed and developed at NPL, SAC, TIFR, PRL and ISAC.
The purpose of science is to accumulate knowledge with the ultimate goal being prediction. A historical science has the goal of both prediction and postdiction because both the future, present and past must be understood. Just as it is necessary to understand history in a social and political sense so it is necessary to understand landform change and response to change during the geologic past in order to understand existing landforms and to predict future change.
This review has already dealt with scale problems involving both time and size. In general, the shorter the time span, the smaller the space, and the more rapid the process the more specific can be explanation and extrapolation.