Show me a profitable moon landing.... said nobody ever. The moon landing cost $400bn adjusted for inflation.All I can say is lol...
UK reportedly plans its own satellite navigation system
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Fair enough, I will fix my English grammar. English is my second language after all.
But UK still can't fix its space programme
While we are at it, its '5-year-old' and not '5 year-old'. So much for your own prowess at grammar. You know, being a native speaker and all. When you point one finger at others, four are pointing at you. Maybe it is time for you to join 'iscool'
If failing at second language is dumb, failing at your own mother-tongue is not even dumb...
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Bombing terrorists in the ME is important because we're not allowed to bomb them after they arrive in Europe.
But hey we'll be freeing up £11bn/year plus interest soon and collecting a further £15bn/year so we'll have a bit to invest in rockets soon. People don't realise the cumulative usefulness of this money and what it could be spent on.
Because UK is not the real deal. Simple as that. UK shelved Black Arrow because of they didn't have budgets. A certain Space Agency decided to test Satellitles on a bullok cart because they dint have budgets. We wanted to do get it done. UK wated to make it look like they had it in them to get it done.
You've still failed, "can't", is a negative. We can fix it in space.Fair enough, I will fix my English grammar. English is my second language after all.
But UK can't still fix it space
While we are at it, its '5-year-old' and not '5 year-old'. So much for your prowess at grammar. You know, being a native speaker and all.
Israeli-British JV to Service Satellites in Orbit.
Either is used.
And you can't write your own native language correctly.
I do agree, English is my second language! Guilty as a charged!
Actually, I fixed my sentence already, even before you pointed. But fair enough! My English is not the best! My Marathi is. Wanna test me on that?
How about your own prowess at English? '5 year-old' OR '5-year-old'?
Wait! I thought you guys had space technology all figured out in '71. Why do you need Israel for a JV?
I love the British hypocrisy: "You had Russian help for a supersonic missile, you fail!" "We are doing a JV with Israel and we are Great Britain".
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Oh well! We all know the British well. Pomp and show first and substance later, if at all. Sling mud on easy targets and run away when a real problem comes. Brexit or Europa project, all have been British attempts to save face. Meanwhile, blame others for your own failures. Its always EU's fault or Immigrant's fault.
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No, we have our own oil in the North Sea. We bomb them because they're terrorists, who are always destabilising the region and increasing global oil prices, which is is bad for the global economy.
If something is costing you money every year, of course it's their fault, that's not even debatable.
How does UK plan to put these satellites up there?
I would imagine procured launchers from ESA like Ariane-5 (or 6 in future). Or SpaceX, or maybe ISRO. Much will depend on cost-benefit analysis. Either way I find it hard to believe a domestic British launch capability will develop out of the need to have the Nav system. That doesn't seem to make much commercial sense at all, not to mention the logistical problems involved and the many many billions it would take out of the various social programs that are currently running.
Either way this will be purely for strategic services I believe (as its said UK will still have access to the civilian-grade GALILEO signal). Despite all that, I can't help but think who thought it was a better idea to develop a new Nav system instead of investing fully into the US GPS system thats already existing. I mean, the UK nuclear deterrent delivery system is already fully US-supplied and when that's the case, why not rely on the US GPS as well? What's the point of Special Relationship if you can't even use their Nav system to potentially cut down on unnecessary redundancies?
Btw, anyone willing to bet that by the time this Nav constellation is completed, the UK will become the first Muslim country to have its own satellite navigation system?
I would imagine procured launchers from ESA like Ariane-5 (or 6 in future). Or SpaceX, or maybe ISRO. Much will depend on cost-benefit analysis. Either way I find it hard to believe a domestic British launch capability will develop out of the need to have the Nav system. That doesn't seem to make much commercial sense at all, not to mention the logistical problems involved and the many many billions it would take out of the various social programs that are currently running.
Either way this will be purely for strategic services I believe (as its said UK will still have access to the civilian-grade GALILEO signal). Despite all that, I can't help but think who thought it was a better idea to develop a new Nav system instead of investing fully into the US GPS system thats already existing. I mean, the UK nuclear deterrent delivery system is already fully US-supplied and when that's the case, why not rely on the US GPS as well? What's the point of Special Relationship if you can't even use their Nav system to potentially cut down on unnecessary redundancies?
Btw, anyone willing to bet that by the time this Nav constellation is completed, the UK will become the first Muslim country to have its own satellite navigation system?
UK uses USA technology. Nuclear technology including submarine and bombs were also given by USA to UK. India made its rocket launcher like PSLV on its own without any ToT from Russia
Space rocket development took about 15 years in 1950s time to launch a satellite of decent size. We can say that the launcher as poor quality and was inefficient. So, we add another 5 years to improve efficiency. Now, UK already has launched 150kg satellite. hence it would need additional 5-7 years to get a PSLV type launcher. If UK has lost its touch and has no scientific community in rocket development, it would add another 5 years for it to recruit scientists from other departments.
Even for argument's sake, one must not lie. India got 7 cryogenic engine from Russia which helped in reverse engineering. However, after that the next engine was made by India - CE200 with full Indian design.
Private company making rockets is bogus. The technology will always belong to the government. Otherwise, anyone from Saudi Arabia can buy the company and get rocket technology for itself. The rocket technology is dual use and can't be given to private. Even if private company is involves, the technology will be govt controlled itself
Let us not insult so cheaply.Whatever, Mr. Fart sampler.
India partners with Russia just like UK, France partners with USA. It is beneficial on mutual basis
How does UK plan to put these satellites up there?
I would imagine procured launchers from ESA like Ariane-5 (or 6 in future). Or SpaceX, or maybe ISRO. Much will depend on cost-benefit analysis. Either way I find it hard to believe a domestic British launch capability will develop out of the need to have the Nav system. That doesn't seem to make much commercial sense at all, not to mention the logistical problems involved and the many many billions it would take out of the various social programs that are currently running.
Either way this will be purely for strategic services I believe (as its said UK will still have access to the civilian-grade GALILEO signal). Despite all that, I can't help but think who thought it was a better idea to develop a new Nav system instead of investing fully into the US GPS system thats already existing. I mean, the UK nuclear deterrent delivery system is already fully US-supplied and when that's the case, why not rely on the US GPS as well? What's the point of Special Relationship if you can't even use their Nav system to potentially cut down on unnecessary redundancies?
Btw, anyone willing to bet that by the time this Nav constellation is completed, the UK will become the first Muslim country to have its own satellite navigation system?
Actually it doesn’t matter. Now that the press release is done the project can be canned
Recieved 7 fully integrated flight stages All 7 were used for GSLV Mk I launches.
Before being used, they were studied. So, despite being used, they were reverse engineered. Just see when the last Russian cryogenic engine was launched. It was not that all 7 cryogenic engines were immediately used for launching and hence India did not get time to study
CE 7.5 is similar in form, fit & function to Russian KVD 1 stage. It's not a copy.
The first CE 7.5 was ground tested well before the first test flight of GSLV Mk I, which implies that it was designed even before the first Russian supplied flight-worthy stages got here.
Also see this article in which former ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan talks about cryogenic engine.
GSLV MkIII, the next milestone