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GSLV III Successful Launch
India has successfully launched their GSLV III booster. This is a
rocket in roughly the same class as the Falcon 9, with a payload of 4 tonnes to GTO. The goal of this program is to save India money on heavy satellite launches and to perhaps enter the market space that Falcon 9 (and others) are in. I haven't seen any data on actual cost to launch, but it is all expendable and uses two big solid strap-ons, so I can't see it approaching the costs of a Falcon 9. Time will tell. -- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw |
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