India is set to launch a scale model of a reusable spacecraft on Monday

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Post by adventured » Mon, May 23, 2016, 4:00 AM UTC

India is set to launch a scale model of a reusable spacecraft on Monday
bloomberg.com

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Post by hackaflocka » Mon, May 23, 2016, 4:26 AM UTC

My suggestion to India: focus on encouraging the would-be Elon Musks in your population. Give them permission to do it. Remove the barriers to them doing it.

You'll get there much faster if the private sector were doing it.

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Post by balakk » Mon, May 23, 2016, 4:28 AM UTC

It's launched already, deemed successful.

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/india-successfully-...

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Post by Allamaprabhu » Mon, May 23, 2016, 4:29 AM UTC

kudos

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Post by dingo_bat » Mon, May 23, 2016, 4:35 AM UTC

Some news outlets have been calling it a "space shuttle", which is highly inaccurate considering that this has no plans of being for human use. I'm happy with the progress ISRO has made but lying/deception will not help anybody.

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Post by deanstag » Mon, May 23, 2016, 4:38 AM UTC

'Everything went according to the projectory, he said adding that the winged space plane will not be recovered from the sea.' - Is that okay? Do a lot of missions around the world consider sea a dumping ground?

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Post by iLoch » Mon, May 23, 2016, 4:43 AM UTC

deanstag wrote: post #6

'Everything went according to the projectory, he said adding that the winged space plane will not be recovered from the sea.' - Is that okay? Do a lot of missions around the world consider sea a dumping ground?

Yeah. My mission of taking the garbage out, amongst others.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 23, 2016, 4:47 AM UTC

dingo_bat wrote: post #5

Some news outlets have been calling it a "space shuttle", which is highly inaccurate considering that this has no plans of being for human use. I'm happy with the progress ISRO has made but lying/deception will not help anybody.

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Post by abhishekash » Mon, May 23, 2016, 4:48 AM UTC

iLoch wrote: post #7

deanstag wrote: post #6

'Everything went according to the projectory, he said adding that the winged space plane will not be recovered from the sea.' - Is that okay? Do a lot of missions around the world consider sea a dumping ground?

Yeah. My mission of taking the garbage out, amongst others.

As per point 6 and 7 on http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-all-set-to-launch-its-o... , it seems that India does not intend to dump unwanted stuff in the sea

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Post by hackaflocka » Mon, May 23, 2016, 4:50 AM UTC

balakk wrote: post #3

It's launched already, deemed successful. http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/india-successfully-...

Such a poorly worded article, replete with grammatical errors.

No close-up pictures of the "shuttle." Strange. (And I'm not talking about a generic long range picture of a rocket taking off either.)

The episode has the smell of government propaganda.