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2009-02-11 India-Pakistan

Designs for India's First Manned Spaceship Revealed

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Posted by john frum 2009-02-11 16:37|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

Posted by john frum 2009-02-11 16:41|| 2009-02-11 16:41|| Front Page Top

#2 What do you want to bet that ISRO will have their program flying before "Teh One (termer)"'s new Nasa administration will have the Constellation program in orbit? Say goodbye to the high ground America! The launcher looks eerily similar to the chinese Long March 2F. Capsule a modified Shenzhou?

Posted by GoldenShellBack 2009-02-11 19:29|| 2009-02-11 19:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Doesn't look like it to me. The Shenzou is a modified soyuz.

If that's the launcher I think it is, I don't think it's a long march either. Lots of countries use parallel staging.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-02-11 19:57|| 2009-02-11 19:57|| Front Page Top

#4 That's the capsule on top of the GSLV-2.

Not exactly the most efficient of launchers (the liquid strapons burn longer than the solid core and carry its dead weight after burnout) but ISRO already made the components (for the PSLV) and it got them in geosynchronous orbit.

ISRO's budget of 800 million a year has to go far. They are very good at working on a shoestring. They put a probe on the moon for 80 million.

The GSLV-3 will be a far more capable vehicle but won't be ready in time.

Posted by john frum 2009-02-11 20:05|| 2009-02-11 20:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Way to go.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-02-11 20:30|| 2009-02-11 20:30|| Front Page Top

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