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Have a look at the Indian Space Program by ISRO. The PSLV - which was used for moon mission Chandrayaan-1 has a cost of $17m per launch.
by anuraj 14y ago
Have a look at the Indian Space Program by ISRO. The PSLV - which was used for moon mission Chandrayaan-1 has a cost of $17m per launch.
- InclinedPlane 14y agoThe PSLV has about 1/3 the payload of the Falcon 9. On paper it's roughly cost competitive with Soyuz and the current Falcon 9 prices (which is no coincidence, there's little advantage to undercutting the competition, yet). In practice though it's not a serious competitive threat to any existing launcher because it has such a low payload capacity and thus can't be used to launch the vast majority of satellites.