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It is the same in NASA too. Government pay scale. If you want money go to the private sector.

Yes then we did not grow like PRC and our space budget stagnated. Not to mention scam after scam by ANC did not help as the focus was elsewhere. We should have been at $5-6 trillion by now even at conservative growth levels. Nothing except poor administration and anti development policy by ANC...

We are way behind in space tech and the gap is only widening thanks to all these private companies. Let’s see how the ISRO-Japan moon mission collaboration works out. I think we need to be at $6 trillion+ GDP (upper middle income) to be able to afford a big R&D budget for space and other...

ISRO has focused on other areas as well which is not talked about much. ISRO is behind improving IMD forecasts quite a lot through installation of Doppler weather radars all over the country. These radars are all designed and completely built in India...

https://www.ibef.org/news/hal-sets-up-rs-208-crore-us-25-51-million-rocket-engine-manufacturing-facility-for-isro

Semi cryogenic engines is the final thing to master in non-reusable launch technology. Good that we are getting there sooner. Next is to build out RLVs to service any space stations we build. Human rated launch and planetary landing and exploration capabilities must be achieved. Of course by...

Yup…I am saddened too. The very passive policies of ISRO, internal sabotages like the Nambi Narayan episode, the Antrix-Devas debacle, not much focus on S&T by BJP, etc are also further reasons for this sorry state. The challenge is how to get out of it. What can be done to turn the ship around...

Looks like ISRO is having a bit more trouble. https://huntdailynews.in/isro-likely-to-miss-3-key-missions-despite-reducing-targets-latest-news-india/ Some excerpts: Challenging times for ISRO, for sure. Let's see how the government and new ways of working with private players can get them...

The only problem here is why only ISRO was affected when the US and France and even Russia went through worse Wuhan virus episodes than us. It is simply because ISRO does not have the depth in engineering talent to accomplish lofty projects. They are like the Indian cricket team of the 90s. ISRO...

Yet another acknowledgment of ISRO's reduced capabilities. The government will now allow FDI in space sector. https://cryptodeva.com/2021/09/13/india-to-open-space-sector-for-foreign-investment-target-10-of-global-market-share-latest-news-india/ Here is a specific quote from the above article...

Here is an old photo from ISRO’s founding days. Nike+Apache sounding rockets launch.

This is a good explanation by a propulsion engineer (Vivek Murugesan) at Bellatrix Aerospace on SpaceX’s reusable tech and why ISRO would struggle to build anything like that, as PSLV and GSLV are not engineered that way to recover launch boosters or stages. More here...

This is a quote by a long time ISRO person with deep knowledge of everything inside ISRO: Jayakumar’s profile: https://www.quora.com/profile/Jayakumar-Chandrasekharan?ch=99&oid=79486533&share=d9933b0c&srid=IU6B&target_type=user Jayakumar Chandrasekharan says “ Even though I am from ISRO...

Ha…I predicted this. This government is not going to tolerate ISRO’s mediocre performance. They know that ISRO has fallen behind others considerably. With SpaceX well positioned to corner small payload the launch market and the massive Antrix debacle ($1 billion lawsuit by Devas), the writing is...

I think he should take responsibility and resign. He has failed and as a leader and he needs to step down demonstrating that leadership performance has to be taken seriously. ISRO needs a dynamic administrator and not just someone being promoted for working there forever. The internal politics...

Lol…I bet on this delay. ISRO won’t be able to launch any manned mission until 2030. They simply don’t have the in-house talent to do so. They keep saying help will be taken from several countries and these countries if plagued by the Wuhan virus are going to put helping ISRO in the low...

Some background to the SCE200 engine (original design from Ukraine - RD810) http://www.russianspaceweb.com/rd810.html

Frankly this remains to be seen. ISRO’s relations with private sector in the past has not been great like in the Dewas deal, especially when involving valuable IP. I am on a wait & watch mode on ISRO. The issue I have with ISRO is that I think their leadership is not great presently, and they...

More talent competition and danger for ISRO: https://thetechportal.com/2021/07/13/spacex-could-partner-with-indian-companies-for-satcom-equipment-amid-starlinks-possible-india-debut-in-2022/

This is a good article about where the major space powers - US, Russia, Japan, China, India - stand. It talks about the relative positions now and how the future may look like. Conclusion: ISRO needs to ramp up if it wants to be taken seriously in the fast changing international order. I see...