Re: After Mars mission, India plans manned moon mission
2015 for manned moon mission? , It will be somewhere around 2022, if we start the project today. Also the Utube thing was just a suggestion for the people who might have missed those ISS videos which came in last 2 years, seems like the Gravity movie has copied a lot from those videos.
EDIT: Regarding the space station on the moon not really needed and doesn't seem feasible unless we find diamond(or any such rare, but useful material easily available on the surface). One could put more then twice of the payload in LEO for military purpose and it will be quick response system, but from the lunar it will take quite to lot of time to reach to earth and the fuel used for such purpose will increase the cost as well.
Yes the cost has decreased by a lot since then, plus US was jumping several step ahead in those days from no rockets to biggest rocket in history, and I'm no expert, but still it will be huge money for country like India. Because we will have to develop new evolution of GSLV MK3 With bigger cryogenic engines to bigger boosters. ( MK3 is capable of 5 tons to GTO, so may be approx 4tons to TLI(Trans-lunar injection), where the Saturn-5(Apollo) rocket had like 45+ tons payload to TLI, meaning we will have to go 2-3 step further). Such a space program will cost no less then 4-5B $ in India today(including development, many prototype launches/test and the actual mission). But this will be spread out over next 10 years atleast. Once the rocket design is successful, sending a single rocket will not be that costly and should be around 200-300 million $ for each rocket or even cheaper(discounting the payload cost). So having such a program will cost initially a bomb, but once it is successful, it will enable us to do a lot of new missions such as space station program, mars exploration spacecraft, bigger telescope in space etc quite cheaply apart from the commercial advantage. Chinese/Russians are also not much ahead when it comes to such heavy rockets and both the country are trying to develop the bigger rockets capable of such task quite recently. But the thing is, if we don't start such project, we will again be left behind, USA's falcon heavy will be able to take more than 18 tons to GTO, Arian 5 can already shoot 10 tons to GTO, whereas our Mk3 (scheduled for 2017) will have the capacity for 5 tons only to GTO.The talk about exploitation of moon was said by other member and that's why i have said that even Americans have not started it yet . Exploitation of moon can be not good for Earth and i think Moon will be used for placing weapons to shoot down asteroids in future . I don't know for sure but just guessing
10B$ was quite a lot in the 60's , but now does the cost of making such launches as increased or decreased ? ISRO has been a revolution and its launching satellites in away to less cost in the lower orbit and upper orbit and this is the reason that more and more foreign companies are coming to ISRO for the satellite launches . Do you have any rough idea how much it cost India ?
Are there any plans by any government to make space station on moon ? Is it possible in anyway to make base on moon as there would be zero gravity ? If there is any such venture is taken by Governments then India should for sure join.
When this manned moon mission is going to be launched ? 2015 .. really excited for it . By October next year , Mars mission details would be in front of us .
I have seeing some days back on discovery channel , if you are having any specific interesting youtube clip , please post it .
May be we will continue this thread and make it sticky for India's Moon Mission .
2015 for manned moon mission? , It will be somewhere around 2022, if we start the project today. Also the Utube thing was just a suggestion for the people who might have missed those ISS videos which came in last 2 years, seems like the Gravity movie has copied a lot from those videos.
EDIT: Regarding the space station on the moon not really needed and doesn't seem feasible unless we find diamond(or any such rare, but useful material easily available on the surface). One could put more then twice of the payload in LEO for military purpose and it will be quick response system, but from the lunar it will take quite to lot of time to reach to earth and the fuel used for such purpose will increase the cost as well.
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