After more than a decade of failed attempts, India has finally successfully launched its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).
The competition heats up: After more than a decade of failed attempts, India has finally successfully launched its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).
Moreover, this rocket was entirely built in India. It now gives that country a rocket competitive in the international communications satellite launch market.
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The competition heats up: After more than a decade of failed attempts, India has finally successfully launched its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).
Moreover, this rocket was entirely built in India. It now gives that country a rocket competitive in the international communications satellite launch market.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
You say “It now gives that country a rocket competitive in the international communications satellite launch market.”
That is a bit of a stretch, without some cost numbers, and without a better reliability record.
I agree it is great to have yet another launcher. But that is like saying the H2A is competitive. It is there, it is mostly reliable, but it is hellishly expensive.
You need all the parts working right. (Reliability, cost, availability).
You are right, of course. My reasoning is based on India’s generally lower labor costs. I strongly suspect they will be very competitive, and will help to increase the competitive worries in China, Russia, and Arianespace.