Warm Cream Parchment Horizontal Band Wall Art

Warm Cream Parchment Horizontal Band — 2 museum-grade prints in this palette. Oceansat-2 extended ISRO's Earth observation portfolio from land mapping and weather into the marine domain — a capability critical for a nation with 7,500 kilometres of coastline and one of the world's largest fishing economies. Ocean color data helps identify productive fishing zones and monitor algal blooms, while scatterometer wind measurements improve cyclone intensity forecasting in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea. Shenzhou 5's success on 15 October 2003 — exactly forty-two years after Yuri Gagarin's Vostok 1 flight — positioned China as a peer in human spaceflight at a moment when the Space Shuttle programme faced retirement and ISS partnership politics dominated Western crewed space policy. Yang Liwei became a national hero whose image circulated across Chinese media, schools, and commemorative stamps — embedding crewed spaceflight in popular culture alongside robotic lunar and Mars achievements.

Updated 14 Jun 2026