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The actual cost of this rocket is around 140 cores,the rest 15 was for building the crew module.But this is just a suborbital flight.As you said a full orbital flight would be around 40 million $. Currently ISRO charges around 20,000-25,000$ per kg which is at par with market rate

I know all that but the issue that you would also agree with me is the core stage.Also when you keep the rocket simple the chances of things going haywire is very low and the cost is constrained. Also another thing that bothered me is that they went for building a cryogenic gas generating...

The issue is not the lift capability...the issue wrong priorities. Look at other rockets,the are less than half the mass of GSLV MK3 but carry twice the payload. Take for example a Falcon 9 V 1.1 ...Unlike the much complicated GSLV MK3 carrying 3 different fuels and three different kind of...

We still have a long way to go.........

That made me angry....this thing should have been started even before the cryogenic project. Because of this late start we are forced to use the outdated UH25/N2O4 engines.Anyways hope they achieve this target at the earliest.

Surely using a cryo engine does not make a good missile but you can still use it for missile purpose especially if you are a rouge desperate country like North Korea.

Just because there are no missiles based on cryogenic engine doesn't mean that one cannot build a missile with cryogenic engine. Cryogenic engine is basically an upper stage engine with high specific impulse which perfect for a long range missile but the main draw back is that it cannot be...

I beg to differ from you,Transferring cryogenic engine knowhow is not permissible under MTCR because of it's dual use.Either buy the technology covertly(like the chinese did) or else develop it yourself but just don't go and openly ask for it like India did in the 1990's. Also the cryogenic...

Congrats everyone!Hopefully we can expect to see manned mission by 2021. But, Doordarshan should be banned, a historical moment completely ruined by the channel.

Live Broadcast :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBIcP7V8MKo

LVM3 X / CARE Mission Update: The Mission Readiness Review Committee and the Launch Authorisation Board reviewed the progress of pre-launch activities and cleared the launch for Dec18, 2014 at 09:30 hrs IST. The 24 and a half hour count down for the mission will commence at 09:00 hrs IST on...

Another pic released by ISRO....LMV3 on it's way to Launch Pad 2

For engines it ended with Vikas,they might have helped us with electronics and other components.

As i said there was hardly any money for even small tweaking or innovation,the government only sanctioned money for launching once every few years.In those days India's economic situation was very bad and therefore the government was struggling to fund the organization. You must thank our...

In those days ISRO didn't have the funds like it is getting today.So instead of going for a new vehicle for carrying the Russian cryogenic engine,they build a rocket based on PSLV .GSLV 2 was supposed to be a temporary vehicle like ASLV until the Mark 3 arrived.I think ISRO would be retiring...

No,thats not the second assembly building,thats the main VAB assembly complex.The building behind is the solid stage assembly complex.Second VAB is under construction at 2nd launch pad. As far as putting CE 7.5 on the top of L110 without SRB,though it is a viable design but will not serve any...

Indeed,Had it not been for Soviets,Ukraine wouldn't have been there anywhere near to having a space program.Anyways lets hope that they complete the project in time..

GSLV 3 Launch date - 18th dec GSLV Mark-III launch on Dec. 18 - The Hindu