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Why cant the EU use ISRO rockets?
by brcmthrowaway 3y ago
Why cant the EU use ISRO rockets?
- murderfs 3y agoBecause they're more expensive and inferior? There's a reason that ISRO's only launches in like the last 5 years are domestic launches, and two launches for a competitor to Starlink that needed an alternative after Russia invaded Ukraine (and ended up launching twice as many satellites with SpaceX regardless).
- huytersd 3y agoWhat the hell are you talking about? In the past five years ISRO has launched 177 satellites for 19 different countries. I remember watching one for Singapore just last week. https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1883677 https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1883677 How is it inferior? It’s the same orbital insertion and they have a near 100% success rate.
- SJetKaran 3y agoI think some of the larger payloads cannot be launched by ISRO at the moment
- murderfs 3y agoThe vast majority of those satellites are basically a joke. They're all tiny cubesats, and the entirety of their commercial space program in that period could probably fit on a single Falcon 9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_satellites_launched_by_India#2020s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_satellites_lau...
- consumer451 3y agoThe cost of launch on most of these projects is not the main cost component. If you spent years and hundreds of millions on the payload, you are willing to pay more to launch on a platform with a very proven track record, like Falcon 9.