Comments by "红火树 RedFireTree" (@firetree2007) on "16,500 Women And Men Worked On Chandrayaan 2. Meet The ISRO Core Team" video.
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this just showed India real level in its space program and its industry level. for the proud of India, India likes to do vanity things, but not concentrate on rising the level of its industry and basic for space program. examples are:
India likes to boost so called "mars mission" and 104 satellites by one launch, but they would not tell you that for the mars mission, India needs the instructions and guidance from NASA and its deep space network, without it, India cannot do anything like that, since India only has 1 ground station, for 104 satellite, that heaviest one is just about 1 tons, others are just small potatoes and eggs, for space it is what payload of a space rocket is count, such as Saturn 5 with capability of 140 tons that is why USA can send men to land on the moon. for India? the most powerful rocket GSLV MKIII, payload is only 4 tons. India has no plan to build more powerful rocket, but instead trying to make cheap small rocket for launching micro satellite into space to make some money. therefore we can predict, India space program has no future, especially it is very dangerous to use this GSLV MKIII for manned program to send 3 astronauts into space in 2022. as I said since GSLV MKIII can only put less than 4 tons into space, so India's spaceship is only 3.7 tons compare to China's Shenzhou spaceship 8.6 tons, and with rocket to send it into space with payload of 11.5 tons.
for Chandrayaan 2 mission, India also depends on NASA's deep space network to get into the moon orbit, that is no problem, then the last 15 min landing, it all depends on the instruments on lunar lander Vikram for measuring and controlling, obviously it failed lost control at last 2.5 km to the destination and crashed into the moon surface. this is not surprise since India is not famous on
precision instrument industry and instrument remote control.
before India can make real progress in its industry, India's space program has no future.
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