Screaming Skull
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Quality details are expert and authorities to decide will most likely be detailed in RFP. But Chinese, European and US has much more to offer quality and otherwise than ISRO can.
Hi,
First of all from all the posts I have read in this thread, it is not clear who is building this satellite? Will Bangladesh build it or will you buy it from some other space agency? If you are planning to buy one, then I don’t think ISRO will be of much help to you as its schedule is jam packed for the next five years. ISRO will be launching about 36 satellites in the next five years at the rate of 7-8 satellites a year, including satellites and rovers to the moon.
Here is the mission profile of ISRO till 2013.
With such a packed schedule, I doubt they will be able to spare any time to build a satellite for another nation.
A communication satellite to cover whole of Bangladesh will have less than 6 transponders in the Ku band and its total weight will not exceed 1500 kg. Ideally, Bangladesh should be looking for a private company in the US or Europe/Russia to do the job for them. For any matured private satellite making company this should be a piece of cake. For space agencies like ISRO and others, the revenue earned from such a satellite will be a drop in the ocean but for private satellite makers it may be bread and butter.
ISRO however, can launch the satellite for you. Current Indian GSLV launchers can carry a payload of upto 2500 kg to GTO. Next year GSLV-MkIII capable of carrying upto 4000 kg to GTO will be ready. Quality is a non-issue when it comes to launching. You give us your satellite and tell us the coordinates and it will be done. In fact, India’s Sriharikota launch centre is the second ideally located spot for a satellite launch after Kourou in French Guiana. This is because the place is 13° (13 degree) from the equator, allowing the rocket to overcome earth's gravitational force easily. Kourou is at 5° 10' (5 degree 10 minutes). Compare this to Kennedy Space Center in America at 28° and Russian space center at 55°. So, an Indian launcher will expend less fuel and the accuracy of the launch will be much better than what others can offer you. All this at least costs. Add to all this we hold the record for the maximum number of satellites launched simultaneously from a single launcher (10 at a time).
So, buddy the choice is yours – as has always been!
Coming to the quality of Indian satellites – ISRO has built over 50 satellites till date including Chandrayaan-I. We have been using our own satellites for decades for communication, earth observation, remote sensing etc. and so far we haven’t faced any problems. In fact most Indian satellites have far exceeded their design life in space and some have remained operational even after 5-10 years after their official expiry dates. The results thrown up by Chandraayaan-I are known all. Indian satellites are proven and boast of exceptional quality so much so that even NASA and ESA avail services from our technologies.
About, the Chinese assistance thingy, well I can only laugh at such a claim.
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Please feel free to prove me wrong!
Thank You!