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Compete tomorrow not today. It is a well-known player, indeed. Rocketry space is under serious disruption [1], and quite rapidly at that. It has often been see
by monsterix 13y ago
Compete tomorrow not today. It is a well-known player, indeed.
Rocketry space is under serious disruption [1], and quite rapidly at that. It has often been seen that a well-known player of today is quickly wiped out by a wave that they didn't foresee coming. India is definitely missing the up-starting entrepreneur-ism around rocketry, and that's where the strategy seems to be broken. Like it is for many other fronts, including public welfare.
[1] http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/17/1958253/china-space-official-confounded-by-spacex-price http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/04/17/1958253/china-spa...
- wippler 13y agoYou keep moving the goal post. ISRO delivered some fantastic stuff on a very low budget, this is not about whether ISRO will be able to compete in future or not. Infact going by the current prices posted on SpaceX website and the amount it took for this orbiter mission, it is indeed very competitive