Recently, Indian Space Research Organization announced India's manned flight plan. It is expected that by the end of this year, in December, India’s first manned spacecraft "Gaganyan" will conduct its first unmanned orbital flight test.
Seeing this, I believe many friends will say that India’s aerospace capabilities are not good. After all, compared with China, Chinese astronauts completed their first space flight as early as 2003, and until today, India has not sent astronauts into space.
So, what is India's aerospace strength? For us, is India an opponent that cannot be underestimated, or is it not at the same level and completely incomparable?
History of Indian Aerospace Development
Although it looks like India is a "magical and wonderful" country, in fact, India has relations with many countries, especially many developed countries It's good internationally. Take the Indian aerospace industry backed by the Soviet Union as an example.
Since the 1960s, the former Soviet Union has provided a lot of technical assistance to India and established the Indian Space Research Organization. In 1973, it began to study launch vehicles.
In 1975, India successfully developed the first artificial satellite in China, becoming the seventh country in the world that can successfully launch a satellite independently.
You may think this ranking is not high. You know, there are 195 sovereign countries in the world, and China is the fifth country in the world to independently launch satellites. It can be said that India is still very strong.
In addition, India has become the fourth country in the world to successfully launch the Mars rover ,India launched a Mars probe in 2008, which also made India the first country in Asia to launch a Mars probe. Although relatively speaking, China's "Tiantian No. 1" has also set many world records, but it is not the first country in Asia to launch a Mars probe.
At the same time, in 2008, India also launched the first lunar probe "Lunar Ship 1". Despite the many twists and turns of losing contact, it still made contact with the earth again in 2017 and orbited the moon.
Of course, India also has many shortcomings, which has also caused many of India's space programs to be postponed so far and have not been included in the new agenda. For example, India originally planned to achieve the first manned moon landing in 2015. Although it has been postponed and India is full of confidence, in 2019, due to the failure of "Yuechuan 2", the plan has been extended indefinitely.
Will Indian Aerospace become China’s opponent?
This time, India plans to launch its first domestic manned spacecraft before the end of this year to achieve manned missions to the moon and Mars. It can be said that India is still ambitious in the "new space race" of mankind.
As early as many years ago, India planned to achieve a manned landing on Mars by 2030, and even planned to become the first country in the world to achieve a manned landing on Mars before NASA.
At the same time, India also plans to commercialize manned spaceflight in the short term and plans to build its own space station. It can be said that today, the development of India's aerospace is completely contrary to the United States and China, especially India. According to public opinion surveys, many Indians believe that India’s space power is much higher than China’s, and they believe that India will soon overtake China in an all-round way.
If the test flight of the Indian manned spacecraft is successful, India will send astronauts into space by 2023. Is India our opponent?
In short, India’s aerospace development cannot be underestimated, because India’s aerospace has two obvious advantages.
What are the advantages of Indian Aerospace?
First advantage: high cost performance
Compared with the development of aerospace industry in other countries, especially European and American countries, any project will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. In contrast, the development of the Indian aerospace industry has always pursued high cost performance. Even investment in many space projects is not as high as Hollywood movies. For example, the total cost of the Indian lunar probe is only 10% of that of other countries.
Therefore, at such a low cost, once the Indian Universiade successfully completes one space project after another with extremely low cost advantages and high cost performance, India's space industry will develop very rapidly.
The second advantage: high internationalization
As mentioned above, India has many well-connected countries internationally, and many space projects in India take the form of international cooperation. At present, many aerospace agencies such as the United States and the European Union are also conducting in-depth cooperation with India, which has also accelerated India's aerospace development.
In addition, India is paying more and more attention to the training of aerospace talents, and it is likely to become the fourth country in the world with autonomous manned spaceflight capabilities. At least in Asia, India's space flight is also an opponent. what do you think?
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