Tak tahulah, kita ni kalau buat apa-apa bagai telur sebiji riuh sekampung. Daki Gunung Everest, rentas Selat Inggeris, hantar Melayu ke angkasa lepas, tak salah, tapi apa hasilnya, apa tindakan susulan yang boleh memberi manafaat kepada bangsa, agama dan negara? Berikut satu artikel dari laman web tidak “Berlesen” , dari seorang individu yang amat prihatin akan teknologi angkasa lepas. Banyak artikel-artikel yang menarik di laman web tidak “Berlesen” ini berbanding dengan laman web Kementerian-Kementerian di Malaysia. Apa yang menariknya di akhir artikel ini, penulis mengatakan negara seperti Palestin dan Korea Utara jauh lebih ke hadapan berbanding Malaysia dalam teknologi roket dan angkasa lepas, sedangkan Malaysia sudah menghantar angkasawan ke angkasa lepas. ****************** Between Malaysia and South Korea, our national astronaut program or better known as Program Angkasawan Nasional (PAN) was initiated far more early than the latter. In fact, Malaysia’s first Angkasawan blast off to ISS almost one year early than Yi So Yeon, South Korea’s first astronaut. While we might rejoice and feel proud of our very first astronaut, South Korea does not take this event as the apex of their space program, they move further by embarking on their very own locally develop space launch vehicle program dubbed as the Naro-1. Although both Naro-1 launches were considered as unsuccessful, nevertheless, the space launch vehicle program is a testament to the capabilities and confidence of South Korea’s local space technology. Korea Aerospace Research Institute or KARI has been designing three sounding rockets dubbed as KSR-1, KSR-2 and KSR-3. Our immediate neighbour, Indonesia has successfully paved the way for their very own SLV program. Data and information as well as experience gathered from almost 50 years of rocket technology development has allowed local defence industry to come up with defence related rocket technology. As can be seen on early November this year, Indonesia’s KEMHAN (Ministry of Defence) has conducted field test on its various locally made rockets such as R-HAN 122mm, D 1220, RWX-200, RKX-200 and RTX-100. These rockets were developed by various research agency as well as local defence industries such as Kemristek, LAPAN, PT PINDAD, IAe, PT KS and PT Dahana. Again, how I envy to the success of these countries mentioned. Even countries such as Palestine and North Korea have also being proud of their very own rocket. If only we could do the same… Sumber : http://malaysiaflyingherald.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/if-only-we-could-do-the-same/
