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Title: Indian Space Program- Q & A
Post by: prajiv on 01/11/2008 01:29 pm: Hi,
I am starting this thread to facilitate Questions & Answers about Indian Space program.

thanks
Rajiv
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Post by: prajiv on 01/11/2008 01:31 pm: How India is going to participate in Russia's Klipper spaceship development program ? What will be India's role in that?
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Post by: Jirka Dlouhy on 01/12/2008 06:21 pm: Quote
prajiv - 11/1/2008 8:29 AM

Hi,
I am starting this thread to facilitate Questions & Answers about Indian Space program.

thanks
Rajiv

Does India plan any missions to planets?
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Post by: Satori on 01/12/2008 07:47 pm: A satellite to study the Sun: ISRO planning to launch satellite to study the sun (http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/13/stories/2008011354801000.htm).
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Post by: prajiv on 01/14/2008 02:52 pm: India to participate in Kliper spaceship development-

http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=4100
Kliper - Is this the same manned spaceship which India wants to send to space in year 2014-2015 ? Need to have more details - how India is going to participate in this work..considering the fact that India does not have any exp in that.
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Post by: prajiv on 01/14/2008 02:54 pm: Sat to study Sun...!!! great
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Post by: prajiv on 01/31/2008 02:36 pm: Hiiiiiiiii.....great news
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/ET_Cetera/ISRO_Chief_confident_of_sending_Indian_crew_to_moon_in_8_years_/articleshow/2746702.cms

Does it mean India will be able to send man to moon in 2015 ?? Amazing!!! India does not have manned launch capacity till now. How they are going to do it?
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Post by: tnphysics on 02/04/2008 01:11 am: If true that would accelerate CxP.

However, I believe that it only means that India could put a man in orbit and return him in 7-8 years.
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Post by: hesidu on 02/04/2008 02:00 am: The report didn't said they would do that alone. I mean if India cooperates with Russia, it can send man to moon in 7-8 years.
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Post by: prajiv on 02/04/2008 12:40 pm: Following links talk abt Indo-US agreement on space partnership.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/article/nasa-india-sign-agreement-future-cooperation_461955_1.html
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200802021021.htm
Interesting news...India has already signed agreement with Russia for Moon exploration.What they are going to do with US ? Joint Mars exploration?
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Post by: MKremer on 02/07/2008 01:02 am: Emily Lakdawalla (who does the excellent Planetary Society blog) has a nice post about IRSO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair's talk at Caltech the other day:

http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001317/
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Post by: prajiv on 02/07/2008 12:20 pm: really good article. following statement is spot on
"I get the sense that the Indian planetary exploration program cannot be justified to the Indian public on the basis of exploration alone. I think the publicly stated goal has a more practical bent: the future exploitation of resources in space. "

India is not China.India can not sale militaristic space program to its people. Just let few launches fail and see the public/politicians responses about that.Indian govt. and scientists will have to hide their ambitious plans under the garb of "space program for common man's benifit".
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Post by: hesidu on 02/08/2008 01:49 am: I don't think China's lunar exploriation and manned-space projects are militaristic. You don't have to send men to space to spy other countries, and don't have to send satellites to moon to show the ability of ICBMs.
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Post by: jimvela on 02/08/2008 02:33 am: Quote
hesidu - 7/2/2008 7:49 PM

I don't think China's lunar exploration and manned-space projects are militaristic. You don't have to send men to space to spy other countries, and don't have to send satellites to moon to show the ability of ICBMs.

Drifting off-topic, but governments do not build a navy because they likes ships, nor does one send man into space merely because it values human exploration.

Likewise, all endeavors that improve capabilities will cross pollinate back and forth between civil and military use, whether sold as peaceful or intended for tactical advantage .

Don't insult my intelligence claiming otherwise, simply acknowledge it and then lets find ways to work to common advantage...
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Post by: stanmarsh on 02/08/2008 03:42 am: A question on GSLV. I was surprised to note that the strap-on liquid boosters have a longer firing duration (160 vs 100 secs) than the first stage solid booster ! This means that the liquid boosters have to carry the weight of the empty stage-1 for 60 seconds ! Is that a bad design ?
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Post by: MKremer on 02/08/2008 03:48 am: Quote
stanmarsh - 7/2/2008 10:42 PM

A question on GSLV. I was surprised to note that the strap-on liquid boosters have a longer firing duration (160 vs 100 secs) than the first stage solid booster ! This means that the liquid boosters have to carry the weight of the empty stage-1 for 60 seconds ! Is that a bad design ?
It's then an empty stage, though, only a fraction of the weight of the stage full of solid fuel at launch.
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Post by: stanmarsh on 02/08/2008 04:09 am: Thanks for the reply ! As per ISRO's website, the weight of the empty stage 5.6 Metric tonnes (largely aluminum). I wonder if the designers really did not want to enlarge stage-1 anymore. It is one of the largest solid boosters around.