India has plans to design and build a new reusable rocket for the global market that would significantly cut the cost of launching satellites, a top Indian government official said on Monday.Secretary in the Department of Space and Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) S Somanath said &all of us want launches to be much cheaper than what we do today.Addressing the seventh ‘Bengaluru Space Expo 2022& and later talking to reporters, he noted that at present it takes about $10,000 to $15,000 to put a one-kg payload into orbit, India's Financial Express reported.We have to bring it down to $5,000 or even $1,000 per kg.
Only way to do that is to make the rocket reusable.
Today in India we don''t have reusable technology yet in launch vehicles (rockets),& Somanath said.So, the idea is the next rocket that we are going to build after GSLV Mk III should be a reusable rocket,& he added at the inaugural session of the international conference and exhibition.Somanath said ISRO has been working on various technologies, including the one demonstrated with Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (IAD), last week.
&We will have to have a retro-propulsion to land it (rocket back on earth)&.So, it's a big shift from what we do today,& he pointed out.
&I would like to see this (proposal) taking shape in the next few months.We would like to see such a rocket, a rocket which will be competitive-enough, a rocket that will be cost-conscious, production-friendly which will be built in India but operated globally for the services of the space sector,& he said.The post India to design, build reusable rocket for global market first appeared on Ariana News.