Is India’s ISRO the most successful Space Agency after NASA?

this video is supported by brilliant hey welcome back I'm life on this channel I've talked a lot about technology and businesses space companies I've talked about national agencies like NASA ISA and Rose cosmos I've also talked about private companies like SpaceX and rocket lab one entity I've refrained to talk about is ISRO the Indian Space Research Organisation simply because it's really hard to Pigeon Hawaiians are oh yes it is a traditional National Agency much like NASA the United States but it's also at the same time extremely cost conscious and result-oriented like a start-up its launch price is almost as competitive as SpaceX so let's talk about it today where does aya sorrow really fit in and what makes it so special first of all it is not fair to compare ISRO with other space agencies because is ro has never possessed the ambitions or the fundings like the other space agencies NASA's budget each year is 18 billion dollars 7 billion for European Space Agency 3 billion for the Chinese and the Russians aiya Sorrows budget each year is only one point seven billion dollars think about it with two hundred and eighty five billion dollars cash reserve Apple could have funded ISRO with cash for a hundred and sixty seven years that is how little ISRO spends every year and that is why comparing ISRO with NASA wouldn't be fair however this is not to say that is ro has not achieved extraordinary results it has two of the most successful launches of ISRO is the PSLV c37 in 2017 and the mangalyaan in 2013 PSLV see 37 until this day holds the record for launching the most satellites in a single rocket and Mongolian successfully helped ISRO to become the fourth country to orbit Mars even before the Chinese but none of the aforementioned achievements comes close to what is ro has spend for both missions around 70 million dollars each this I think reflects the core philosophy of is Aurra which is to be ambitious by the same time cost-effective in the 1960s the Soviet Union and the United States competed fiercely in the space industry which eventually accelerated the collapse of the Soviet Union and now the Chinese are catching up with the Americans not to compete with NASA this time but the Chinese are not going to be anyone else's Lackey either therefore while other space agencies compete to make the most powerful rockets in the world aiya sorrow never seemed to care about that just look at the evolution of its rocket launchers they're all humbly named satellite launch vehicles different variations indicated by the first letter represent different orbit PSLV from polar synchronous orbit and GSLV for geosynchronous orbit this is the first clue of how pragmatic is ro is the second clue is in its vehicle design if you take a closer look at is arrows rocket evolution it looks almost like SpaceX the only difference is that is ro has a more stable financial support from the Indian government and SpaceX had none but in terms of the approach to design launch vehicles both organizations are very similar SLV and aslv was initiated in the 1980s and ASL B's capability is similar to that of Falcon one the three versions of PSLV s have similar capabilities comparing to early versions of Falcon 9 and the GSLV has capabilities somewhat catching on to Falcon 9 block 5 none of them could be classified as a super heavy lift launch vehicle like Falcon havi and section 5 but they're all super reliable and most importantly very cost effective what's more impressive about the evolution of bias tarios launch vehicles is their adaptability take PSLV as an example it has three versions PSLV CA which stands for coral own standard PSLV and pslv-xl where all of them focus on pull a synchronous orbit which is around 600 kilometers altitude customers can choose which variations of vehicles to use based on the size to the set light this is the beauty of a cost-effective launcher furthermore because of its focus on cost effectiveness ISRO also has to come up with brilliant engineering solutions to the problems it faces one famous example is its experimental mission to Mars on top of being the only successful Mars mission on the first try Aya's ro had to perform six orbit raising manoeuvres over three weeks before heading to Mars because the vehicle does not have enough power like the Falcon Heavy to send satellites directly to Mars it slowly raises the satellites orbit before injecting it successfully to a heliocentric orbit to Mars the engineering and the problem-solving behind it is truly amazing this I think captures these scents of ISRO success as the founding father of ice ROV chram used to say there are some who question the relevance of space activities in the developing nation to us there's no ambiguity of purpose we do not have the fantasy of competing with the economically advanced nations in the exploration of the moon or the planets or men's spaceflight but we're convinced that if we're to play a meaningful role nationally and in the community of nations we must be second to none in the applications of advanced technologies to the real problems of men and society I think this is the key to understand what is our o stands for and how it differs from other space agencies and companies this is also why I said at the beginning it is really hard to pigeonhole ISRO it didn't have the fundings the NASA had it didn't have the start of mind set an institution that SpaceX had but none of this stopped ISRO from doing something extraordinary this just come to show how important passion and dedication is for any organization you know talking about ISRO makes me really happy because it's clearly made out of people who are passionate and dedicated and above all an institution that encourages it looking forward into the future I think ISRO will continue to do great things it's setting out to perform its first manned mission in 2022 I'd say good luck to ISRO before I publish this video one of my viewers send me this picture can you believe it in the early days engineers of ISRO had to send rocket parts with their bicycles to assemble them for testing this is the situation that had to deal with every single day they don't have a lot of resources well they do have is passion and dedication they only achieved what they did the hard work and a lot of practice a good way to practice activity though is through brilliant work even though rocketry is complex all it takes is for you to start small in order to achieve great things I Asaro knows at the very beginning that if it were to build huge Rockets like Saturn 5 it won't work it has to start with something manageable like the satellite launch vehicles in order to slowly become a giant it is now in a similar way brilliant help you start small with interesting problems and examples so that it can master concepts by solving fun challenging problems yourselves on top of that it also gives you a good framework to enhance our understanding of rocketry and help you link 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Keywords: curious elephant, Leicreatives, ISRO, NASA, Space Agency, spacex, elon, elon musk, musk, falcon 9, falcon 9 block 5, satellite launch vehicles, slv, pslv, gslv, polar satellite launch vehicle, polar satellite launch vehicle (pslv), india, indian isro, roscosmos, esa, cnsa

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Length: 8min 30sec (510 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 15 2018