What do you mean by anything new, all countries with an active space organization are following the footsteps of NASA, and doing things NASA did decades ago does that mean they are not trying anything new, will you say the same about CNSA because they too are not trying anything new if we are to go by your logic.But in all these ventures india does not even pretend to try anything new
India's most powerful rocket GSLV mk3 can transfer 4000kg to GTO and Chandrayaan 2 weighs 3800kg, how the duck is this inefficient.Indian space sector is super inefficient - they have huge lift off weights and small payload.
ISRO is not a space company it's a research organization you duck head, obviously they do not seek to fulfill a single niche because that's not how scientific organization's work, what nieche does CNSA or NASA fulfill.There is not a single niche that they seek to fulfill And i beleive the 2 billion budget is understimate - they do get a lot more in transfer payments
Unlike you guys our space program is civilian in nature and is constantly audited, reports of which are out open in public so yeah 2 billion it is, money earned from launching foreign satellites do not amount to that much as ISRO earned a measly $223 million from doing that in all of its history.
Indian IRS is one of the longest running and biggest civilian Remote sensing satellite constellation in the whole world but sure go on and tell us how it is the worst.And indian IRS images is utterly uncompetitive. You can get better quality remote sensing pics out in market. it is just vanity.
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