Vamsi
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I would say, apart from budget issues, we don't have long term goal & foresight....When Dr.Vikram Sarabhai was alive, he set us a goal...."To make Bharat, independent in space technology & use space tech for national development", I would say we almost achieved that goal, hence, now we are preparing for Human Space Flight, but what next..... Gaganyaan as of now is political, just like NASA's Apollo program in 60s.....We must from now on set a clear goal just like what Dr.Sarabhai did back then, we should first ask ourselves what we want to achieve in next 25 years, & plan accordingly, we must have a clear goal & then huge budget, without which we are just aimless, ISRO is currently aimless I would say, they just doing things for sake of doing things.It's always encouraging about India's growth story when I see it making forays and strides in every field and sector, aerospace, research, naval, economics, military and reviosionism (refuting western influenc). But entire ego shatters after watching at China which dwarfs India in all those aspects everytime. It has sounded to start even funny now.
Though, the larger part of the issue remains meagre budget India allocates be it for fighter planes, naval expansion & shipbuilding, city planning and space research, I'm wondering whether India will able to spend that kind of CAPEX on research even when India's economy crosses $10 trillions. They put different goals. No new cryogenic engine might be needed by India as CE-20 can be clustered and so is with SCE-200.
Coming back to pattern, all USSR, China and even now Iran seem to have been testing different cycles and stages even on similar size of rockets. They produce 3 or more rockets at once for one weight class without bothering to move towards other.
India meanwhile everytime moved focus on acquiring next class of payload capacity based on previous system once it attains one sort of launch capability. So, in their case, it might have been about gaining engine tech. India meanwhile only remained content with achieving a particular launch capacity and didn't bother to develop that class of rocket with some different configuration again.
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