Prayut has to be able to keep an eye on that pesky Thaksin and his whereabouts somehow, lol!

At least they can pocket the spare parts budget once it's up in space.

There really should be a checklist...

 

1.  military.  you really do need to protect your country from itself and from others

2.  education

3.  poor

4.  more social programs

5 to 199 : maybe in Thailand it's rice or rubber or manufacturing or whatever.

 

and then #9890343759084574358427538495745438    Earth Exploration Satellite funding 

It shouldn't take long to do its orbit of the Thai Borders

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

international organisations specialised in space technology

so who is actually providing the expertise in this fantacy - it is very obviouly nobody in Thailand

 

here is what students across the nation are doing - having  deadly pitch battles in the streets - the future of Thailand

 

 

17 hours ago, Thailand said:

Any thoughts on who they can send up in it?

 

a monkey called #####

10 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Somehow Thailand and space don't seem like a comfortable fit. Am I underestimating the science and technology here? 

Good to see everyone hoping they will have similar success as the UK.

 

LONDON (AP) — British officials and space scientists said Tuesday they were disappointed but not deterred after the first attempt to launch satellites into orbit from the U.K. ended in failure.

https://apnews.com/article/science-united-kingdom-aerospace-technology-76e49c8ee5a02bcde6fc1ddb7d629042

they can use it to track the progress of the floods during the rainy season that they had assured us would not occur.

13 hours ago, ezflip said:

Explore earth to discover that there are other countries and signs of life outside of Thailand?!?

A satellite is not required for this. just to learn English, which for better or worse is the 2nd language of the World,  and teach English and geography (most cant even read a map) in Thai schools to give students the tools to get a passport and go explore the outside of Thailand for themselves Not keep the population chain bound, brainwashed and blinkered by Thai so that they can be more easily controlled, manipulated and exploited for cheap labour.

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

to explore the Earth, for ............................................. and security.

So, a spy satellite??

 

The THEOS (Thai Earth Optical Space system) programme was set up in 2005 and was intended to benefit from several other new space programmes at the time. If memory serves, the parent company was European Aeronautic Defence and Space (AEDS), a French company. Thai engineers were to attend extensive training from European experts. However, I didn't follow it up but I do remember that the scheduled launch was before 2010. Maybe that was THEOS-1 which I don't recall reading about. Perhaps someone else on the forum has more up to date info.

20 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

It was designed to be used to explore the Earth, for public disaster management...

Then better not point the camera at Thailand

2 hours ago, smedly said:

Any thoughts on who they can send up in it?

 

Maybe it's just full of Durian based takeaways for the Space Stations..

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44326575

 

No mention of launch vehicle and location. Possibly Bang Fai from Buriram?

10 hours ago, daveAustin said:

It is what it is, about right actually, we’re not in Kansas, but what’s that gotta do with the price of fish? If it were the same as your home country, would you be able to afford it here? How’s about the average Indian wage while poverty reigns supreme and Britain still sends them billions every single year. They have a huge space industry compared with Britain. All irrelevant. 

 

 

Britain has a Space agency and sent a rocket up in 1971 successfully. It also has or is about to launch from a Virgin aircraft a rocket carrying satellits. 1986 saw a British woman in Space (Mz Sherman) and more recently Space walks carried out by Brits. Wish people would stop the derogatory spin about the UK. We just don't boast everytime we cross the road.