India has a busy space year in 2019 with 32 planned missions including the Chandrayaan-2 mission, scheduled to be launched in April from the Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh, southern India, and which will consist of landing on the moon a lander and a rover. According to Anita Sengupta, a space engineer who had worked on NASA's Mars Curiosity rover landing on Mars and who is now Product Manager of Airspace Experience Technologies, a private airline, India is a major player in follow in this sector.
On the sidelines of the international conference Hello Tomorrow dedicated to the deeptech, which took place on 14 and 15 March 2019 at the Centquatre in Paris, Anita Sengupta told Business Insider France that "India has a launcher [Editor's note: PSLV], which It's a lot cheaper than all the others that are currently in use, and just when it's on the market and customers can use it, SpaceX drastically reduced launch costs with the Falcon 9, the India could cut that price by half or more. "
By way of comparison, SpaceX has officially stated in its commercial brochures that the average price of a Falcon 9 launch was $ 60 million, even though according to a letter to the US Department of Commerce, the space company founded by Elon Musk is referring to a much higher price of around $ 120 million.
Anita Sengupta pointed out that India can rely on "very good engineering schools, a society that generally supports engineers and sees them at the same level as lawyers or doctors, not to mention a space mission that allowed put into orbit a ...
On the sidelines of the international conference Hello Tomorrow dedicated to the deeptech, which took place on 14 and 15 March 2019 at the Centquatre in Paris, Anita Sengupta told Business Insider France that "India has a launcher [Editor's note: PSLV], which It's a lot cheaper than all the others that are currently in use, and just when it's on the market and customers can use it, SpaceX drastically reduced launch costs with the Falcon 9, the India could cut that price by half or more. "
By way of comparison, SpaceX has officially stated in its commercial brochures that the average price of a Falcon 9 launch was $ 60 million, even though according to a letter to the US Department of Commerce, the space company founded by Elon Musk is referring to a much higher price of around $ 120 million.
Anita Sengupta pointed out that India can rely on "very good engineering schools, a society that generally supports engineers and sees them at the same level as lawyers or doctors, not to mention a space mission that allowed put into orbit a ...
