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PSLV-C23 Successfully Launches French Earth Observation Satellite, Four Others

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Re: PSLV-C23 Successfully Launches French Earth Observation Satellite, Four Others

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also feel like many will wait a story out, to see the first few comments which set the tone for the discussion and give points to debate/discuss.

very true and every site is different w/ regard to how the community responds/handles link discussion but it does seem that sometimes discussion doesn't seem to be "a thing" for certain links. It sorta reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack . Maybe it just needs a clever name?

"Like" syndrome?

Re: PSLV-C23 Successfully Launches French Earth Observation Satellite, Four Others

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Today, ISRO's PSLV[1] launched five international satellites into their sun-synchronous orbits - SPOT-7 from France, AISAT from Germany, NLS 7.1 and 7.2 from Canada, and VELOX-1 from Singapore[2]. This was PSLV's 25th successive successful mission. Here's complete launch video if anyone's interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR5S5nNbd4U (00:45:00 onwards) This was 114th space mission of ISRO. Here's a complete…

> 25th successive successful mission. You added a word. What is more impressive is the current streak of 23 successful missions going back to 1999.

> successive - following one another or following others

> successful - accomplishing an aim or purpose

What's the extra word here?

Re: PSLV-C23 Successfully Launches French Earth Observation Satellite, Four Others

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This title is neither descriptive nor neutral. The title in the page itself seems to be: "PSLV-C23 [Successfully] Launches French Earth Observation Satellite[- SPOT 7] and four other co-passenger satellites[ from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota]"

I've put in brackets the parts of the title that I think can be omitted without loss of context. If changing the headline, I imagine adding something like, "Indian Space Organization's PSLV...." to the beginning of that headline is best.

Re: PSLV-C23 Successfully Launches French Earth Observation Satellite, Four Others

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This title is neither descriptive nor neutral. The title in the page itself seems to be: "PSLV-C23 [Successfully] Launches French Earth Observation Satellite[- SPOT 7] and four other co-passenger satellites[ from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota]" I've put in brackets the parts of the title that I think can be omitted without loss of context. If changing the headline, I imagine adding something like, "Indian Space Organization…

You're right: the submitted title ("Indian Space workhorse PSLV delivers again") was badly editorialized. Submitters: doing that violates the HN guidelines. If it's necessary to change a title (because it's linkbait or misleading), please ensure that the title is accurate and neutral.

In this case the content itself has changed as the satellites were launched, so we've updated the title again.

Re: PSLV-C23 Successfully Launches French Earth Observation Satellite, Four Others

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 25th successive successful mission. You added a word. What is more impressive is the current streak of 23 successful missions going back to 1999.

> successive - following one another or following others > successful - accomplishing an aim or purpose What's the extra word here?

There have been 25 total successful missions for PSLV. 23 of them have been successive / consecutive. Considering that "successive" is not a word used commonly and that the fact that the number of "successive" missions was wrong, I thought it was a typo.
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