Posting this again, since the original post was removed.
@Nilgiri I guess we already had a session with Bilal on this.
Do you even know the level of engineering & up scaling required to go from a sounding rocket to a Space launch vehicle ?
And how does launching an US sounding rocket from a UN-sponsored facility, TERLS make Indian Space program any less indigenous ?
And unfortunately for you, the
Americans never transferred any technology nor did Indians copy it- the first Indian developed sounding rocket, the RH-75 has nothing to with Nike Apaches. It used cordite propellant ,because the underfunded space program working out of a converted church couldn't yet manufacture APCP propellent.
Now a bit about Chinese Space Technology origins...
The first Chinese missile was built in October 1958 as a reverse-engineered copy of the Soviet R-2 short-range ballistic missile (SRBM), itself an upgraded version of a GermanV-2 rocket. Its range was 590 km, weighing 20.5 tons and propelled with liquid oxygen and alcohol.
So much for Chinese 'indigenous' claims
Lol, more BS. So Indian Space program is not indigenous because our scientists trained in the US in the basics of sounding rocket assembly & range operations? Tell me how it is different in the case of US it self which received hundreds of experienced Nazi scientists, let alone access to the hardware & blue prints.
from your own link...
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This is called 'range operations'.
IF test flying an American sounding rocket, and later coming up with a Space Launcher using even locally developed propellant is called stealing in any sense of the word.
Google lactone terminated polybutadiene aka HEF-20, that one was invented by ISRO.
Sure, they had a parachute on-board to recover the same.
That's a model of SLV, our first launcher. This is a nike apache