India can't even produce it own "indigenous" engine
india space program?!
This is for your ignorance buddy. Just chill !!!!!!
SLV, ASLV, PSLV, GSLV, GSLV III. Except GSLV all has been launched using indigenous engine.
1-On July 15, 2011 the PSLV flew its
18th consecutive successful mission orbiting satellites. Its only failure in 19 flights was its maiden voyage in September 1993, providing the rocket with a
94 percent success rate.PSLV uses indigenous engine buddy.
2-The lunar mission carried
five ISRO payloads and six payloads from other international space agencies including NASA, ESA, and the Bulgarian Aerospace Agency, which were carried
free of cost.
The Chandrayaan-1 became the first lunar mission to
discover existence of water on the moon.
Here indigenous engine too. Some one please tell these ISRO men to transport some water down here in Mumbai, I want 24/7 water supply.Hi hi hi!!!
3-Mars orbiter mission-The Indian Space Research Organization is preparing an orbiter mission to Mars.The proposed payload of 25kg consists of ten instruments, including:
Probe For Infrared Spectroscopy for Mars (Prism),Mars Exospheric Neutral Composition Analyzer (Menca)
"TIS" instrument (thermal emissions),Mars Color Camera (MCC),
Methane Sensor For Mars (MSM)
Mars Radiation Spectrometer (Maris),Plasma and Current Experiment (Pace). Well 1st two instruments are are well over my head.
4-125 crore (over USD$24 million) from the government has been given to complete the required studies. The space agency is looking at a
November 2013 launch and would use its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle(PSLV) rocket to put the satellite in orbit. The agency is also considering using
ion-thrusters, liquid engines or nuclear power to propel the bus further towards Mars.Same bloody indigenous engine here too.
5-On
12th May, 2012, ISRO announced the successful testing of its indigenous cryogenic engine for
200 seconds for its forthcoming GSLV-D5 flight.First flight test of the ISRO designed and built Cryogenic Upper Stage
failed to reach orbit due to malfunction of Fuel Booster Turbo Pump (FBTP).First flight of GSLV Mk.I (c) was destroyed by range safety officer after
loss of control of liquid fuelled boosters.In a setback for ISRO, the latest attempt to launch the GSLV, GSLV-F06 carrying GSAT-5P, failed on 25 December 2010. The initial evaluation implies that
loss of control for the strap-on boosters caused the rocket to veer from its intended flight path, forcing a programmed detonation. Sixty-four seconds into the first stage of flight, the rocket began to break up due to the acute angle of attack.
The body housing the 3rd stage, the cryogenic stage, incurred structural damage, forcing the range safety team to initiate a programmed detonation of the rocket.This testing gives some cool headache to me in this weather.
6-The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark-III though the
technological successor to the GSLV, however is not derived from its predecessor. Well I think most of Indian members would not know the relation between these two,let alone foreigners. I recognized the difference when science train came to Varanasi 1st time around 10 years earlier in my teenage.
7-The Indian Space Research Organization has been sanctioned a budget of INR12,400 crore (
US$2.47 billion) for its human spaceflight program. According to the Space Commission which passed the budget, an
unmanned flight will be launched in 2013 and manned mission will launch in 2016. If realized in the stated time-frame, India will become the fourth nation, after the USSR, USA and China, to successfully carry out manned missions indigenously.
8-Solar exploration program-ISRO plans to carry out an unmanned mission to Sun by the year
2014. The probe is named as Aditya-1 and will weigh about 700 kg. I think this one is the most ambitious one.
9-One of most important achievements of ISRO in this field was the
discovery of three species of bacteria in the upper stratosphere at an altitude of between 2040 km. The bacteria, highly resistant to ultra-violet radiation,
are not found elsewhere on Earth, leading to speculation on whether they are extraterrestrial in origin. These three bacteria can be considered to be extremophiles. Until then, the upper stratosphere was believed to be inhospitable because of the high doses of ultra-violet radiation. The bacteria were named as Bacillus isronensis in recognition of ISRO's contribution in the balloon experiments, which led to its discovery. Holy Cow! I didn't know until I searched on the net.
I think it will create your mind hell a lot. It's not bad to lose. Bad is you lose before you gather will to resist. Just hang in here buddy, more to go.
Jai Hind.