India Makes a Serious Bid to Become a Space Power -- Again

[Jlaw]

India, one of only three Asian states capable of launching spacecraft, said it had earned US$69 million launching 15 foreign satellites from 2011 until the end of June.

The amount, while seemingly impressive, is a mere 0.02 percent of the world's US$304 billion annual space business dominated by the US.

A combination of commercial and geopolitical aims is intended to launch India's latest bid to be recognized as a true space power.

On the commercial front, India launched 15 foreign satellites and 14 Indian satellites during fiscal years 2011-2014.

On the geopolitical front, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised to turn India into a space power to contend with as part of his campaign promise to restore India's influence as a regional power to counterbalance China.

Modi is also billing himself as a champion of Asian countries and has called on India's space industry to develop a satellite that will be shared with neighboring Asian nations "as a gift from India."

Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said the Department of Space has revealed its plan for India's space program until 2020.

The plan includes the development of advanced launch vehicle systems; orbiting earth observation satellites with improved photo resolution; deploying a constellation of regional navigation satellites and building high-power, high-throughput communication satellites.

The satellite projects will be the responsibility of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), India's space agency. The main objective of ISRO, which counts among the largest government space agencies in the world, is to advance space technology and use its applications for India's benefit.

In June, ISRO launched five foreign satellites that included Spot-7, a high-resolution earth-observation satellite belonging to Airbus Defense & Space Company.

It also carried four other smaller satellites: NLS7.1 and NLS7.2 from the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies' Space Flight Laboratory; VELOX-1 from Nangyang Technological University, Singapore and AISAT from the German Aerospace Center.

India's aggressive moves in the commercial launch sector reinforce its reputation as a low-cost alternative for orbiting satellites.

India spends US$1.1 billion annually on its space program. It currently has 20 in-orbit communication and remote sensing satellites.

India Makes a Serious Bid to Become a Space Power -- Again : World : ChinaTopix.com

I must have been hibernating for years but what era was India considered a space power? That's what the article implies.

 

[nik22]

I must have been hibernating for years but what era was India considered a space power? That's what the article implies.

You are still hibernating.

 

[liall]

How much is ISRO's budget in $ compared to other space agencies?

 

[gslv mk3]

I must have been hibernating for years but what era was India considered a space power? That's what the article implies.

You must improve your comprehension skills.Where did it say India was one ?

How much is ISRO's budget in $ compared to other space agencies?

It was less than $1 billion last year.

 

[Jlaw]

You must improve your comprehension skills.



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Friend, when you read this title, doesn't it imply that India was once a space power?

India Makes a Serious Bid to Become a Space Power -- Again

 

[gslv mk3]

Friend, when you read this title, doesn't it imply that India was once a space power?

India Makes a Serious Bid to Become a Space Power -- Again

Make a bid-again.

 

[jamahir]

You might want to cut that coolie stuff out now... now one here is calling you names, you do not need to generalize any nationality. i will neg rate any further derogatory generalization to any nationality... read forum rules in announcement section and keep the quality of your poster. You claim to be an expert in technical field, carry yourself in the same fashion.

thanks

agreed. i apologise

 

[bloo]

so you want to champion a nation created by the british and americans for their own purposes??

when you ask questioning and sensible people like to leave, remember, if you kill the cats, you will be left with dogs.

edit : had left out your other point.

compare the 50 years of the indian space program to that of elon musk's private company, spacex, started in 2002.

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spacex falcon 9 rocket and dragon spaceship visited international space station thrice. falcon 9 rocket can carry 10 tons to geo orbit ( 35,000 kms and above ) and 14 tons to leo (100 kms to 2000 kms ). all this is at present. their dragon v2 spaceship, existent, will within two years carry the private spacex space traveler. this is in addition to further spacex projects.

elon musk himself is the chief designer, helped presently by about a thousand employees, all this achieved by spending maybe 600+ million dollars. cheap.

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as to indian space research organiztion ( isro ), 50 year old organization, tens of thousands of engineers and phd's, billions of government dollars spent... all it has become capable of... is launching satellite, and some fancy projects like chandrayaan and many other yarns like gslv etc.

no people being launched from india, any time soon.

and indian space research organization is maybe the third richest space agency in the world... after the american nasa and the chinese cnsa.

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so what do you think is the difference between indian space "research" and elon musk's spacex??

Even your metaphors are conceited.

What difference you say?
It seems you know VERY little of what you speak of yourself, too much premature evaluation going inside your head, after all you are here just to troll.
SpaceX is not actually commercial in the traditional free market sense, but simply another government-funded contractor using a different procurement model. Both the american DoD and NASA have a hand in making it what it is today, why do you think it continuously gets contracts from NASA?
The original Merlin engines which form the basis of most Space X rockets particularly the Falcon series use the same injector module as in the rockets in the Apollo program which TRW first used, and god only knows what other technologies NASA has provided to SpaceX. So no Elon Musk didn't do all of it himself out of plain dirt, how much time do you think it takes to come up with original concepts and free trials and testing facilities these will take no less than 10 years for any space agency in the world, since NASA already gave them a base to start up from and of course they funded SpaceX too that is the only reason SpaceX established itself in the period of 12 years.
So don't be conceited boy, but how can you not be since you came here to troll with the mindset of underestimating and demeaning everything about India, however unfortunately for you, you can't be more WRONG.
LOL when you have achieved nothing what gives you the right to be so condescending? Either way whatever you say it sounds only like hypocrisy after all where is Libya?
Let me remind you, even though ISRO has existed for 50 years it was never actually rich enough to do most things on its own. Only after the development of PSLV was ISRO properly able to become self sufficient.
FROM THIS......

TO THIS.......

And if you are still green with envy then go burn in a corner for all anyone cares.

 

[IND151]

I hope we earn more through launching sats.

The 69 million dollar figure is impressive but not sufficient.

It should be above 500 million dollars and if possible above 1 billion dollars.

 

[airmarshal]

India cant manufacture as basic a field weapon as gun. It cant produce a tank. It cant put a local fighter aircraft in production. But its going to space?

 

[timetravel]

When people are Jealous of you.. that means you are just few steps away from reaching your goal.

 

[bloo]

India cant manufacture as basic a field weapon as gun. It cant produce a tank. It cant put a local fighter aircraft in production. But its going to space?

You can cry wolf all you want, but the FACT is that India IS IN space, which Pakistan can not hope to be,
drool over your sub par satellites you send to space beyond that will take you more than a decade.

 

[cirr]

Can you please explain how.

We are ahead of them in satellite imaginary.

We are ahead of then in Mars mission.

We are ahead of them in multiple satellite launching in one mission.

They are ahead of us in weight lifting.

They are ahead of us in sending man in space.


In some aspect they are ahead in some aspects we are ahead.

We shall soon catch up them in weight lifting and man mission to space.

As usual，you are full of yourself。

I can't be bothered to correct you point by point。

But satellite imaginary？You mean imaging with your imported stuff onboard half-Indian made satellite？

Multiple satellites in one launch？It is cakewalk. Fortunately for you, China is not in the biz of launching tiny satellites in one launch, India is。

 

[gslv mk3]

India cant manufacture as basic a field weapon as gun.

It is already producing several designs-Made in India military weapons and support systems

It cant produce a tank.

Indigenous Arjun already in Service.

It cant put a local fighter aircraft in production.

Year - 1961

If you meant Tejas,it is in series production.

But its going to space?

We are doing it for 3 decades...

1980s

1990s

2000s

2014

And going on...

Any idea about this ?

As usual，you are full of yourself。

I can't be bothered to correct you point by point。

But satellite imaginary？You mean imaging with your imported stuff onboard half-Indian made satellite？

Multiple satellites in one launch？It is cakewalk. Fortunately for you, China is not in the biz of launching tiny satellites in one launch, India is。

Do you want to get bashed again like you get in threads about thorium reactors ?

We are ahead of you in solid rocket boosters

We are ahead in satellite imagery - we have sub metre resolution satellites

'imported stuff' ? Care to explain ?

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[timetravel]

Do you want to get bashed again like you get in threads about thorium reactors ?

We are ahead of you in solid rocket boosters

We are ahead in satellite imagery - we have sub metre resolution satellites

'imported stuff' ? Care to explain ?

also we are ahead of them in sending probe to Mars.

we also hold the world record for most satellites launched per vehicle.

we also have a safety record which is many times better then theirs.