India's Metsats to be renamed to honor shuttle astronaut
India's meteorological series of satellites, Metsat, will be renamed Kalpana in memory of shuttle Columbia astronaut Kalpana Chawla, according to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). Metsat-1, the first of the series, will now be known as Kalpana-1. It was launched Sept. 12, 2002.
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