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Post by rawemotions Sun May 22, 2016 12:42 pm

ISRO's RLV

Market potential is Huge. 

Pros:
1) Technology Similar to what NASA had and decided to retire.
2) Would bring down the cost to $500 / Kg  of payload (could be similar to what Spacex would have, even though their 
    RLV technology fully reuses) and thus cost competitive, given overall advantages in India's cost structure.
3) Could be a pathway to heavier launches, unlike SpaceX, which might have limitations on the size with fully reusable rocket.

Cons:
1) Technology not fully reusable (Rocket is still lost) Unlike competitor Spacex in which everything is reusable
2) Would take 9 Years to complete (despite starting with  technology proved by NASA) - compared to 2-3 years for SpaceX
    at the rate they are going.
3) Unlike competitor SpaceX, would take a long time between successive launches, since we need a new ROCKET for each 
    launch OR needs substantial manufacturing to plan successive Launches. 
    SpaceX just needs to refill the rocket (once the retrieval is perfected)
    Thus the throughput of launches would be much lower for ANTRIX (ISRO's commerical ARM), compared to what SpaceX 
     could achieve

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