A Little Banter - Thread
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Not necessarily. A certain China has been launching satellites for quite some time now. Only recently they have started building their own designs of airplanes and subs. Previously their subs and airplanes were essentially licensed copies or sometimes bootleg copies of Russian subs and aircrafts.
BTW, India has indeed built her own fighter jet in 60-70s, admittedly under the guidance of a German designer.
Not you, NASA did it for you. Ariel and Skynet were launched on American launchers. Unless you are claiming delta-M is your rocket. I like how British are usually full of hot gas.
Correction : "You get from us" is more like "We pay to our NGO stooges". Indian government does not receive a single penny from British government.
*Ahem* I will share a little secret with you. Indian space agency or rather its commercial arm is actually a profit making corporate.
Antrix's Net Operating Income in 2014 was around 310 Carore INR or about 36-37 million euros.
Meanwhile, Ariannespace, europe's premier space agency had a net operating income of ....... drum rolls...... 4 million euros.
http://www.arianespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Annual-Report-2014-EN.pdf
And I take 2014 because thats the last year in which arianespace reported the income.
Oh, BTW, all of these figures do not include ISROs services rendered to the nation itself in form of weather forecasting which saved quite a few lives during last tsunami OR military satellites which serve India's national interest OR saving precious forex which will otherwise will go in the pocket of likes of SpaceX.
Who cares. First do it and then brag. Right now they have nothing to show and by going with British records will have nothing to show.
And launching satellite on NASA rockets does? Care to explain?
A 102 KG to 500 KM LEO. That too after 3 failed attempts. And you have all the help from US. Come on! Thats like spelling 'balloon' after 3 attempts and claiming that you could build an awesome vocabulary if you wanted. My 5 year old cousin does that often.
As far as cost goes, one part of engineering is to make your work economical, sometimes by scaling sometimes by other means. I guess British gave up on that. Couldn't scale their effort or make it economical.
That's some British logic there. Show me a country that can't design a jet fighter with its own engine, but not an (operational) medium lift launcher.
Your model state China developed launchers first before developing a fighter jet with its own engine (reverse engineering won't count)
It has. That's why your compatriots, and you here- wannabe Anglo Irish- is seen whining every time Indian space program achieves something.
Why, does all those brown skinned Indians beating you in space hurt your your bloated ego ?
The only thing you are going to launch is some small satellite launchers. And given that it's a British project, it would be expensive & non-competitive.
But good luck, competing with established players in an already congested space launch market.
Can't believe that this is coming from a country with zero space launch capability & zero experience designing anything other than tech demonstrator LVs. But if that makes you feel better...
And you have have nothing to say when asked to name a Russian launcher with large solid boosters as is case of Indian ones. Funny as hell.
Now here is GSLV Mk3, a launcher capable of putting 4-5 tonnes in GTO & 10-12 tonnes in LEO. A third generation Indian launcher & end result of four decades of our efforts.
It's solid boosters are third largest in the world (Russians don't have one like it, neither do they use SRBs). It's cryogenic upper stage is the most powerful in operation (again Russians don't have one like it operational)
(Does it look like a big middle finger BTW? No visual pun intended.
)You can always ask for ToT of older Delta/Atlas LVs from you masters & fellow WASP nation, the USA. Ask them not to put their kill switches on that.
Apparently we were left with 18th century standards when we became independent in 1947, all thanks to the assholes called British.
Don't worry, it seems like well achieve manned spaceflight as well as high HDI in the first half of the next decade.
And we'll be making our own space launchers, spacecraft, fighters, helicopters, ships, submarines, cars, trucks, nuclear reactors and most things you can name.
Indeed. There have just allocated funds for building small spaceports for small satellite launchers & their government is already calling it 'world-leading space launch market'.
Move the last 5-6 pages to a new thread, this whole thread has been spoiled by off-topic posts due to a jealous, nasty Little Englander.
And when did India launch a 40kg satellite to LEO? Over a decade later.Nailed it there.
I just didn't understand why a space power had to buy old jets and subs from foreigners, and use ToT like Chinese, except not as smartly.