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This is not ISRO news but my backyard space program :troll: Mumbai startup first Indian private firm to have satellite It is India's first private equity funded satellite sent by Mumbai based company. @Kshatriya87

^THIS!^ There's no legal jurisdiction in space so things are murky. There are treaties India has signed with the US for "non weaponization of space", but that again can only be enforced on the land in the form of sanctions. If a country is hell bent on weaponizing, then the US can't do...

If memory serves me right, reusable launch was one of Abdul Kalam's pet project, isn't it? This was way back in 1973 when Kalam and K.Sivan joined ISRO (later Kalam left for DRDO). I think they illustrated 2 versions, one was the something like using a hypersonic jet plane to launch the...

There's evidence of that being used earlier, you probably overlooked the 5 pictures of heavy rockets above. They had to shelve those plans due to resource crunch during the cold war era. You've made your opinion heard, if you don't agree, step aside, don't make everything a penis measuring contest.

The same way they recover heavy capsules, by making them fall in the water and then using a ship to bring them onboard. NASA did it with ARES where they recovered a reusable rocket using parachutes. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/416513/analyzing-the-flight-of-ares-i-x/ This...

Does it lower the overall cost of the launch to have a vertical landing rocket, instead of just having a parachute assisted descend and then recovering that module to be reused later? (seems like the latter will consume less fuel, isn't it?)