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India Successfully Test Fires Its Heaviest Rocket

Posted by timothy on from the might-roar dept.

vasanth (908280) writes India on Thursday moved forward in rocket technology with the successful flight testing of its heaviest next generation rocket and the crew module . The 630-tonne three-stage rocket, Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III, carried active solid boosters, liquid core stage and a passive cryo stage and a crew module to test its re-entry characteristics. This rocket is capable of doubling the capacity of payloads India can carry into space and it can deposit up to four tonne class of communication satellites into space. India also plans to use this rocket for ferrying Indian astronauts into space. For India, ISRO (the Indian space agency) perfecting the cryogenic engine technology is crucial as India can save precious foreign exchange by launching heavy duty communication satellites by itself.

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  1. How does it compare to Canada's rocket launch? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here's a video of Canada's most successful rocket launch.

  2. Re:$25 Million? by cayenne8 · · Score: 2, Funny

    he demise of the Apollo program was probably the worst thing that ever happened to American space technology. We are just now regaining knowledge and capability we had in the 70s.

    But now...we in the US can just go pick up new rockets at the Kwik-E-Mart (albeit at slightly elevated prices).

    Thank you....Come again!!

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  3. Re:Now if India would just invest in its own peopl by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think you missed the point of the rocket launch - it was not to impress you.

    Whether you are impressed, unimpressed, love India or loathe India.. we dont care a damn. The G7 dont interact with the developing countries unless there is a huge monetary payoff and that is the only reason you are nice to India.. our market.

    Remember - China's corrupt, polluted, no freedom of speech and lacks human rights... and yet, most things in your house are probably Chinese made .. including the defective condoms your dad used.. that resulted in you!