How India Developed World Class Rockets From Humble Beginnings.
India's Space Research Organization has managed to develop a world class space program and a series of launch vehicles that have multiplied their payload capabilities by hundreds of times between the SLV-3 able to place 40kg into orbit to the GSLV MKIII which can place 10 tons into orbit.
Starting with the SLV in the late 1970's a and all the way up to the modern GSLV India has been heavily reliant on solid rocket motors to deliver their payloads, they've developed their own 200ton solid rocket motors, comparable to those used by the US and Arianespace.
India's main liquid fueled engine is the Vikas, derived from Europe's Viking, but evolved with greater capabilities. India also developed hydrolox engine technology on their own and have high performance upper stages on their GSLV rockets.
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I'm an American and I have to say: Go India! It's relatively easy to build a rocket when you have bazillions of taxpayer dollars to do it. India has done amazingly well with very little. I was really heartbroken when their moon lander didn't succeed. Was really pulling for them. I hope they try again and are successful. 2023 Edit: HOORAY!!!
Thanks mate!!! 🙏🏼 Jai Hind🇮🇳
Thank you! India will try another Moon landing next year (if not delayed).
It's my personal observation that mostly Americans and also Russians understand the importance of Space economy and the technology it generates for the country. Most of the people from countries with no functioning Space program fail to understand how important the Space sector is. Indian Space Program has actually helped the country's economy so much in saving valuable Forex in all these decades. Along with NASA, other American Space Companies keep inspiring us as well. Thank you for the encouragement.
@@varun2250 Saving Forex is the least of ISRO's contributions to nation building.
@@death_parade It's might be least but nevertheless one of biggest pluses for the country.
To be precise those 'political barriers " were USA's sanctions(he said so in order not to blame us directly) , it was US which didn't wanted this technology in India's hand's
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@@badcornflakes6374 whats so funny bruh?plz explain...
The sanctions were imposed because of Nuclear tests.
India has helped America a lot more than the other way round. America did a lot to support Pakistan and Islamic terror in the name of fighting proxy wars with Russia decades back and look at the result. The world would be a much better place if America decides to actually help India out without playing dirty tricks. Russia, say what you want about them, but it was Russia who helped us out since independence with everything engineering. Now we must stand on our own feet.
ISRO reminds me of the way Clive Sinclair builds computers: don't be afraid to reinvent everything in order to makes something powerful for much less money.
What did they reinvent ?
@@E9X330 Heavy launch vehicles - the much more integral role of SRBs as compared to the liquid-fuel-centric American, European, and Russian rockets significantly reduces cost and complexity for similar performance.
@@ratemisia isro does not have heavy launch vehicles, they don't even have medium Launch vehicles
@@E9X330 gslv mk3 is medium lift launch vehicle
@@deblinray8498 Besides, almost everything ISRO does is unconventional, from Rocket design, satellite release mechanism, component positioning in Satellite, timing of launches etc., That way, ISRO is able to do more, with less...
It's kinda sad as a Brazilian to see how we got behind in our space program.. In the 90 and early 2000 we were put in the same group as Russia, China and India as promising developed countries, now everybody have rockets and crewed missions and we have nothing.. Huge props to India tho, their space program is outstanding.. everybody can learn with their work
I hope it gets better, thanks
I don't know what happened to Brazil. Why is your economy failing?
@@josephstalin9604 Mainly a massive institutionalized corruption culture in the politics.. in the 00's our economy was better because of the commodities but we have found a LOT of corruption schemes in the major political parties.. it caused a lot of political, economical, social and juridical instability.. in the 10's, all the governments were terribly instable and the economy was getting worse and worse.. now, the current government treated the pandemic situation the worst way possible, we lost 600k lives and we'll gonna suffer a huge punch in the economy.. to this day, the corruption is the same.. it's a shame that a country like Brazil is blocked by it's politicians
I mean.. I can go on and on talking about the problems that are dragging are economy down.. but long story short.. corruption and politicians putting their personal interests in front of the nation's.. last week the government blocked 90% the money for the Ministry of Science and Technology.. this is one of the examples..
Your government chose china as space partner who fd u guys, now you guys are working with indians. I hope bith of you achieve the goal.
As I studied ISRO's rockets I had to admit these are very strange rockets. They certainly have no fear of doing things unconventionally.
If you do not have the money, you have to be inventive. Which means you do not stick to known working ideas *just* because they are known to work --- especially when they are expensive. Which means thinking outside the box is very valuable.
i think for you unconventional means something which is done in a diffrent way than NASA .
@@realwinniethepooh135 NASA, Roscosmos, ESA and CNSA all went similar roads. Therefore that is the convention. It is not just about Murica and NASA, this time. :P
@@HoboInASuit4Tune so what there are diffrent ways of doing a single thing why should we go with a flock of goats and also cnsa rocket system is also amateur and it is said by NASA because they use only 2 boosters instaed of multiple boosters thats why recenet accident happend.
Also if you say 2+3 is 5 and if we change it and say 3+2 is five then you are still gonna say that 2+3 is conventional way so i do not think if we can make you happy also please point out the problem with rockets just like NASA point out that CNSA's rocket design is not conventional because they are not using multiple boosters which make it more likely to go out of control also one more think lets say there is a small problem then do not forget the fact that budget of NASA is 22Billion and Of ISRO 1.5Billion and with this lilited budget we made our space agency in the top space agencies .
One of these days, he’s going to make an “every rocket in the world” 5 hour video. And I’ll watch all 5 hours of it.
Twice
**Fingers crossed.**
Playlist. Make it easier for him. Start from the beginning, and a video for every rocket.
And study every single detail of it.
Yer anyone who knows about Scott's life knows it would take him months to make a 5 hour video he has a full time job in software development which is quite full on generally. This is just his side gig which having done software development myself I find mind-blowing!
ISRO - possibly the most "Kerbal" space program. One of the most important things you learn in engineering is that there is ALWAYS more than one way of doing everything.
When you’re on a budget… add more boosters or bigger boosters! 😅
@@Zacks.C-land haha man that's funny
@@Zacks.C-land KSP be like:
@@Zacks.C-land The ASLV did not need more boosters, it needed more struts!
@@advorak8529 i agree
The manner in which these rockets are named feels very satisfying to me.
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lmao ikrrr
Simple and effective.
It is literally the most Indian Government Organization thing. They just name it as it is.
@@josephstalin9604 You just summed it up. Everything is named after what is its function.
Aryabhatta was the Indian scisntist that gave the world '0' and many other things Once ISROs Semi cryogenic engines comes online, we will see a reusable HLV come to live withing 5 to 6 years I hope. That should lay foundation for the future space station
Namaste ji🙏
Nice
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@@harshnk8218 namaste
@@PramodMakkar hello
People don't know that part of the reason why ISRO succeeded was because of the organizational structure. They picked a group of really smart guys in their mid/late 20s (including Kalam) and gave them complete control with one brief 'build a world class space agencies'. These guys started work as young fired up passionate dudes but worked 40 years building the agncy from scratch all the while having a ball of the time because every day they were growing and learning new things. By the time they retired they had achieved their brief.
And who inherited all that blood and toil and fun??
That's right. I have a celebrated uncle and a brother in law (who just retired) from ISRO and they are absolute champs when it comes to sheer engineering and problem solving skills. Both said ISRO was very much like a family - you knew who was working on what and where it all would come together. Very cohesive group.
All started with a vision of sarabhai and homibhabha. India is so lucky to have people like satish dhawan,kalam and nambi narayan who took this forward.
There are many scientists, not only Kalam... 🤡lol
Kalam was not with ISRO. He was in DRDO.
GSLV engineers: What kind of propellant do you want to use? ISRO: Yes.
Big solid motors go brrrrrrrrrrrrr
@@sfs-india8921 3 idiots reference
@@manik6621not really
As a citizen of planet earth, I'm quite proud of what the Indians have accomplished, They (yes i'm generalizing shamelessly) have a culture of improvisation and innovation that is sorely lacking in many other parts of our planet. I reckon the first belters will be indian, and they'll make the most of it!
Yeah, in the north they have this common term called "juggad" which means improvisations and it's pretty much ingrained in the culture.
@@ps-uj5dm life-hacks is the word for jugaad
Belters?
@@agrajyadav2951 Belters - citizens of the asteroid belt and outer planets. Please, watch/read "the expanse" and report back! as a watcher of scott manley, you'll not be disappointed!
@@theafro Indian space program is mostly defence oriented. India does not have huge budgets for space program but focuses only on the essential needs of defence, weather & communications. All other programs like Mars Orbiter, Moon landing etc are stunts where payloads are token items only meant to showcase capability but not to actually learn or do anything. It is unlikely that India will try to go to the belt anytime soon
People with money don't necessarily have high level of intelligence.I would like to see india have a vibrant space colonization program as they believe in DOING what is correct for there and other nations.they believe in freedom for there people and others,A quality civalization.
amazing how you described us... pretty accurate i would say. "if india grows , the world grows" - indian PM
Thank you for your humble words, My friend
Thanks for the kind words but unfortunately we are surrounded by 2 hostile and regressive neighbors and their followers/fans are inside our country in huge numbers. THAT'S THE BIGGEST THREAT to our Civilization
@@anandbaheti TRUE THAT. yesterday when india lost to pakistan in cricket they were bursting crackers those anti nationals
@@anandbaheti the world is preparing for war and all our concerns could become meaningless. There are very few of us left that see the madness unfolding, whish the world be shown some mercy even if they don't deserve. It.
ISRO's rockets names are as humble as the organization.
In business humbleness is not a great virtue, especially for sale value.
@@samahirrao you are a fool.
@@samahirrao they r not businessmen, they r humble scientists who can earn many times the salary they r getting from the government but still work for the nation.
How conveniently "USA's objection to sale of cryogenic technology to India" got replaced by "Political problems". We were forced to develop the technology on our own which delayed our space program's effectiveness by 20-30 years. Another reason to say "Thank You USA" That being said, no offense to your channel, I'm a huge fan of your content and I understand when catering to diverse audience one has to be diplomatic.
Thanks to CIA and the ISRO spy controversy
& Current US president had a big role in it
@@nChauhan91 Yes, that's true.
Joe Biden called sale of Cryogenic Engine technology to India as "dangerous" and squashed our development pace. Also, mysteriously the then-director of Cryogenic project, a brilliant Princeton alumni, was framed in a fake spy case, was tortured for decades and then acquitted for being not-guilty which further pushed our space program back.
But it's better that we made it ourselves. Our version is much cheaper and it is one of our accomplishment which will go out in History. We don't need everything to be served on plate....
They're doing amazing stuff with a very limited budget, they're clearly on the ball. Watched their launch maybe a month ago, they had trouble with the upper stage, but that sucker jumped off the pad like it meant it. Very impressive.
I watched the 17th December 2020 launch of the CMS-01 where they launched the replacement Satellite GSAT-12R successfully. It was so different after watching so many SpaceX launch's. I had a smile on my face it's true. I still had a lot of respect for their achievement though. After listening to Scott explain their limited budget, I have a better understanding of the achievements. And compare it a bit to a fellow countryman, Burt Munroe from Invercargill, who achieved a lot on his 1930 Indian Scout motorcycle, with a very tight budget too. Determination can over-come many obstacles.
Love how much they achieved, considering amount of money they spent, and fact that they started pretty much in the shed...
There's this amazing comparison image of them in their early years taking a payload to pad on a bicycle, sitting on the back with a few people walking it to the launch vehicle. Now the process takes two trucks, a huge crane, 50 people, and puts Indian designed spacecraft on Indian designed rocket hardware. The very definition of that "be careful who you made fun of in high school, this is them now" meme.
But don't forget about the labour costs, material costs etc, them being effective isn't the only reason they're cheap
Now if they could just quit copyright claiming yt news channels trying to cover their launches...
@@recurvestickerdragon they have a bad pr department with old people god knows when it will change
ok ...so basically spacex > isro > nasa ......in terms of efficiency
I love their naming scheme. It tells you straightaway what youre dealing with :D
That's most Indian government tech projects for you. The official government TV channel is called Doordarshan (literally translates to "Television" in Hindi), their radio station is called Aakashvani ("Voice from the Sky", but also a common phrase for Radio), their human-in-space programme is called Gaganyaan ("Space Voyage"), their Mars mission Mangalyaan ("Mars Voyage"), their moon mission Chandrayaan ("Moon Voyage"). Generally, I love the naming scheme as well. Reflects the no-fuss attitude of most Indian government science and tech organizations who try and keep their work as simple and straightforward as possible, without too much melodrama.
@@AA_21861 I love it.
@@AA_21861 vyomanauts
@@AA_21861 cool
@@AA_21861 I also like how they just get stuff done without thinking about the presentation.
Scott: "India's program started 50 years ago..." Me: oh, so they started some time in the 1950's? That's early. Scott: "...in the mid-1970's" Me: wait, what? Oh, right... holy crap, I got old :(
India Started it's space program after watching appolo rocket launch with in the weeks 🤣🤣🤣 today same ISRO NASA cooperating on space program
@@davidbilla8063 we had to do something...m
@@hrsh042 do you mean muslims?
Well, there was something called INCOSPAR (Indian National Committee for Space Research) created in 1962, which was the predecessor of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization)
@@davidbilla8063 typical American
When Lockheed Martin started it’s commercial Titan program I made a trip to Bangalore trying to sell them launch services. They listened politely then after lunch a lovely staff member in traditional silk dress gave us a humbling lesson in commercial contracts vs. U S Air Force business practices. So much for beating our swords into plowshares.
Oh really? 😂. I'm from Bangalore by the way
That sounds like an interesting story. I'd like to hear more, if you're allowed to share.
Hello from Bangalore 👋
You should do an entire podcast on this
😂😂😂😂 can u tell more about it 😅😊❤
Finally another explaining ____ rockets, would love to see japans next
Indeed. Scott, this would be an interesting video. They had a lot of political constraints in the early days, and a bunch of interesting cancelled designs
I'm also interested in the Lucy Spacecraft these days.
I'd love Scott to cover anything pertaining to JAXA in detail.
Would be cool to hear about the lesser know Brazilian rockets as well
and iran after that... they have a bunch
Thank you Scott for shining some light on ISRO and India on a global stage and to an appreciative global audience. Space is for all and we all are doing our best. Would love to see smaller, lesser known agencies being brought to light too. Thank you and sending love from India
and thanks for being one of the cheaper launch providers around the world and also launching sats for singapore's universities (TeLEOS-1 sat being one of the sats ISRO sent up)
Your cities are sinking 😂
@@chacdogful wot
Yea this video was awesome! Had no idea they had so much capability with a small budget. Mad Respect from the states. I think it would be cool if we did a team up like we do with ESA and JAXA. Space diplomacy is my favorite diplomacy!
@@russellsutton617 lol except they are a direct competitors against spacex and falcon 9… Elon probably doesn’t dig that idea. Not only that but the political realm has driven, India’s collaboration with SK to build their own 20 ton space station they started drawing plans for in 19’.
To all my fellow Indians, instead of telling everyone how proud you are of our magnificent scientists, study hard and build upon their achievements! I am studying hard so that one day I can make my country people proud of me!
Your company ask isro to launch their satellite
Shut up anime kid go study
I think the same brother, best of luck in your journey.
Exactly 💯🙏
Are you planning for IIST or IIT ..I think IIST give more chance to work in ISRO.
Wonderfully engineered and proven domestic technology. I wish India the very best. For all mankind.
Those rocket names actually make sense! Is that allowed?
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Yes 😂
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Hope so! 😀
USB guys : NOOOOOO
India is doing things indeed!
Aryabhatta is pronounced as Arya (pronounced like "Arya" Stark from Game of Thrones) + Bhatta (Scott did a workable pronunciation of it). The Satellite was named after Aryabhatta, the Indian mathematician from circa 500 AD who is credited with the place value system and the decimal system of numbers. He also did a bunch of astronomy stuff.
He possibly gave Earth is round hypothesis with proofs
Nobody asked
Bhata means slave. .
@@Q_QQ_Q which language?
@@arushreddi5419 sanskrit . he was dalit , working manual jobs . he was called bhata by brhamins .
Usa : Saturn V,falcon,Starship India : PSLV,GSLV,SLV take it or leave it
That's so simple lmao
Stay humble and the underdog so that when you succeed, the world knows about it.
That's what makes India bad-ass!
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RSLV too
ISRO is without a doubt the most cost effective space program out there. I look forward to what they'll be doing in the years ahead as their budget increases. Look at what they're already doing with less than 1/10 NASA's budget.
NASA could do far more if 2/3rds of their annual budged wasnt being spend on a useless rocket that was left in the dust before it even flew once
@@carso1500 I wonder why Americans waste so much money like $ 85billion weapons left in Afghanistan .......I mean they really don't have that money , there national debt in exceeding their $22 trillion economy
@@somethingnew7078 for conce im not american, but national debt is always blown out of proportion it doesnt really matter how much they own but if they are able to pay the interest in time (which the united states certainly is able to) and as long as it doesnt consume most of their resources (which it doesnt) just to pay them then they could have 100 trillion in debt it wouldnt really matter, the american economy isnt in any trouble for the increased debt (i mean of course its not free and they do have to pay it and the higher the debt the higher the interests but soo far the united states economy is big enough that they can simply tank the debt, and its not like they are the only country with a huge debt many countries took a huge hit last year due to corona im sure that if you check out you would discover that your country also took a huge debt to keep the economy afloat) and the united states is the biggest most powerful economy on the world by far, only china can kinda compete and they are burning themselves trying to catch up and keep up, they have the economic might to just spend billions of dollars like nothing for extended periods ot time NASA for example uses more money than like 50% of all countries in the planet and they are only like 0.01% of the american economy
@@somethingnew7078 8 million dollars. Not 85 billion sir. 8 million is still nothing to sniff at but it's not literally the same amount as the gdp of Switzerland as you are suggesting.
@@carso1500 SLS doesnt take up 2/3rds of NASA's budget, what are you on about? Its roughly the same yearly cost as the ISS (~$1-2B depending on year). And that money pays for more than just the rocket itself, its also the facilities and everything else.
The Indian boosters definitely win the award for 'the most parts shed at launch; on purpose'.
Lol
Yeah
Yeah those tiles.
...Thank you, I suppose?
That's only foam coating to prevent rocket's internal parts from heating up
So...to sum up the Indian space program...they went from bottle rockets, to actual ROCKETS that can compete with the big boys in like, no time.... That's pretty freakin' amazing!!! 🇺🇸❤️🇮🇳. Another fine video Scott!!! Keep em coming quick question @Scott Manley Could you make a video about ARSE....? (Australian Research & Space Exploration) and yes...with jokes and puns....! 😉
This is one of those comments I can't get past! What an arse you are, pun intended!
Everything is upside down in Australia. Will they call their nosecones arsecones?
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The "Political" problems that india had in getting cryogenic engines should be properly explained which is the US putting on sanctions on india for buying engines from russia(the US was not willing to sell their engines), the US did not want india to progress in space capabilities because of which ISRO had to make indigenous engines. There are still many problems in getting critical technologies, exotic metals and space capable hardware because of which the rocket development in india is slow, but they will eventually catch up.
Gonna start calling falcon heavy "augmented falcon 9"
And Starship as MCLV, Mars Crew Launch Vehicle
Rocket Design of Thesus
@@lesliekerman4222 LOL😂😂
@@lesliekerman4222 don't go that way there's a very clear difference between the workings of a Government & a private organisation... Thus the naming difference. It's easy to learn though
@@hrsh042 It’s a joke…
The Indians graduate more engineers that most countries, including the US. So it's not a big surprise that they are making good strides. Science is science, but engineers make the science work. Wish there was more working together rather than working separately, which would save a ton of money and resources. This is one of the sinning achievements of the ISS, it wasn't one nations effort, it was a coalition working together and they achieved something awesome.
China was comfortabIy ahead of lndia in STEM grads (2017, Forb es), and was still projected to be ahead by 2030 (OECD). Both are far and away in front of everyone else. You prob. want to change the sixth word of ¶2
@@-danR I stand corrected. Sad that the country who rallied to beat the soviets to the moon, wasted all that and just sat around. It's good to have competition, but i'd rather the countries work together to exploit space. And do it peacefully, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards.
Just like Cuba has the most doctors in the world. Easy to have lots of engineers when the degrees come in a box of cereal.
@@TheOwenMajor India and China literally supply the world with Engineers lmao. Including Europe and the US.
@@TheOwenMajor Not every American school is MIT or Caltech. Most US schools are shit also. I'd rather study at an Indian IIT than a shitty US school, Caltech notwithstanding.
1:29 I've never seen a rocket look so excited to get to space lol
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Great work India to develop this capability! 🇮🇳👏👏
An interesting story i heard was that for the first rockets they transported some parts per bike
Actually they carried them on a Bullcart.
Ya. Sounding rocket was carried on bicycle. Satellite was tested for vibration on bullock cart.
@@tirthachakrabarti5912 No. It was transferred on the bullock cart to avoid vibration. A bullock cart will not generate enough amplitude or frequency to be a useful vibration rig. It will however, vibrate far less than a train or a truck, and hence why it was used to transport the Apple satellite.
From bullock cart to Mars and Moon, wow. Way to go isro
Yeah it's correct they carried on bicycles and on bullcart
Finally the ISRO video! Thank you Scott. Now do the israeli please.
Yeah, Israel's space program is especially interesting because due to political concerns, they can't launch their rockets eastwards like everyone else.
I think he has done that. Video title is "shavit Rocket"
Israel's Rockets are For Arab Worlds 🤣 BTW, I'm just Kidding. 🙂 Waiting to see Israel own Space Centers and Launch Station ❤️
One main reason for PSLV having those small booster strapons besides main strapons, is during polar sun synchronous orbit launch, the launcher has to change its direction mid air flying down range south. This is called dog-leg maneuver, to avoid flying over populated land mass of Sri-Lanka.
and their is china whose shitty rocket failed in mid space and crash on neighbouring district after a month
The first rocket components were transported to the launch site on cycles and bullock carts , the pics are so emotional to see now We had a major setback back in 2019 Bt we are still so greatfull to all the people involved From what we started to where we are now is truly a journey worth to be extremely proud of
Love that your doing this. Also, the GSLV Mk III is the most Kerbal looking rocket irl!
Looks to me like a scaled down Titan IIIC.
@@borismekler That's exactly what I was gonna say
In some ways it also looks like an Ariane rocket. Idk
ISRO - 21st century rocket technology, 20th century graphics rendering.
Need to keep the budget low buddy
Yup don't spend a lot on graphics spend on rockets
That's cause the commertial display right is giving to a shitty gov company
Am pretty sure they consider graphics and all as unnecessary pointless expenses(and most of the people in top positions are Old people, who even consider TV as a curse for humanity , as it sucks out our most precious resource 'Time') Also Indians hate wasting stuff in general (food,time, money, dress, water..almost everything )
We cannot make good animation and moon sets 😌
Looks like a program of steady and well considered evolution, rather then try to make over ambitious leaps. The sort of thing that gets you there without any mad rush, might not be first to the prize, but are there to stay once they get there.
Program of already known stuff . No need to do fancy things .
@@Q_QQ_Q What is it NASA say - Fast, Good, or Cheap, Pick Two. I'd say the Indian engineers decided to go for 'Cheap' and 'Good', and are taking their time to get things right.
@@PiDsPagePrototypes u dont get it . its cheap now because of democratization of old tech . just like other tech which gets cheaper over time . copy & paste works wonders . NASA is like mother agency .
@@Q_QQ_Q NASA asked USA for sanctioning ISRO when it was designing these launch vehicles and cryogenic engine on it's own. Keep in mind we were never allied with you, so any there wasn't any sort of tech transfer.
@@Q_QQ_Q mother agency? My arse
What a great topic. *Indeed, India has done more with less, than any other nation.* Thanks for sharing this! 😎🇺🇸🤝🇮🇳😎
In my correspondence with Indians in different comment fora, I have found that they divide into three groups, those very supportive of India's space efforts, who see them as a source of national pride and a foundation for high tech industry and jobs, those think the money would be better spent trying to alleviate poverty through welfare programs, and those who reject both of these approaches as being continuing examples of Western imperialism and wish India would return to its traditional cultural ways. I can only say I disagree with the latter two. It seems there are many people, not just in India but in many other countries, who oppose anything that enhances national prestige and gives people a sense of pride in their own countries. I have never understood that attitude. A dignified patriotic self esteem is always a positive good.
That third approach in particular would require several hundred million deaths, so NOT a good plan. no.
We are already following our traditional cultural ways and developing advanced technology in parallel! These two have no clash. Hinduism promotes open-mindedness and seeking knowledge about the ultimate truth.
Eh, I maybe I can help you. You are confused. You don’t need rockets to have patriotic pride. You can be proud of developing your country rather than throwing money into space. They don’t seem to be doing much except survive on the ISS. Will the moon landing make us rich this time? We spend billions to bring back rocks. Gee, thanks!
@@TheBooban Eh, maybe I can help you. You're ignorant. A huge amount of research has been (and continues to be) done on the ISS, covering the fields of life sciences (biology/medicine), physical and material science, astronomical observations and meteorology. The lunar samples are studied worldwide and teach us about the early state of our solar system. Maybe next time do a simple Google search before commenting.
@@tirthachakrabarti5912 Well, I'm glad you feel that way. I just know I have exchanged posts with some of your countrymen who disagree. I just hope that India will continue to be a land pf personal economic and political liberty and growing prosperity.
the ISRO was the topic of a paper i had to write for my finals, veeeeeeeery interesting and the pure efficiency of the ISRO is amazing
Which exam
now ISRO has lost its efficiency...now they are struggling to launch more than 3 rockets every year...the pandemic has messed them up...
@@spectre3954 It'll come to normalcy soon.
@@spectre3954 you will be stunned to development of isro in upcoming years . ❤️🇮🇳
@@destroyergameryt1028 English A levels
Proud to be working with ISRO LPSC...🇮🇳🚀😊
Any updates about SCE 200 bro??
Thank you for your service!
IIRC India has the record for most successful simultaneous deployments in orbit having put something like 155 satellites in order in one go. It was a couple years ago but I recall reading that.
had* :((( spacex beat em
@@callsign_Elysium nice got an article or anything? I believe you and I'd like to learn more.
Not 155 it was 104, it recently got beaten by SpaceX (143) so ISRO is 2nd place so far right now (it can be changed)
It's 104 satelites on one rocket... I am Indian but facts are facts. Currently we rank at 2nd position only behind spaceX
@@SurajGupta_3D Gotta give credit to Elon for competing with nations as an individual and private citizen
5:00 APJ Abdul Kalam aka Missile Man. The most loved person in our whole country. I highly recommend anyone reading this to watch his lectures. He was a great man.
Seconded. His biography "Wings of Fire" is such a pleasure to read. One of India's most beloved president.
Did he qualify as a *steely-eyed missile man*? :)
Yeah a legend
@@thomashiggins9320 yeah, also very thrifty too, didn't let lack of funds stop any of his (also nations) plans, man he was so loveable
@@thomashiggins9320 he transport our first satellite on bicycle at that time . He was legend for us. 🙏 Jai Hind❤️🇮🇳
My dad used to work for ISRO, and that time Islamic terrorism was not there, so there was not much security checking. Kids of the employees were allowed to visit once in a while. I used to go there, sit in the lab, visit different labs with my dad, look at different machines (of course not understand anything), dial any 4 digits number to call another lab and then hang up as soon as someone answers the call, playing in large gardens, and eating lunch in the canteen. So whenever ISRO achieves something, I feel proud that my dad was a part of this wonderful organization, and also miss the time I spent there.
Islamist from outer and inner both are hurting india's progress at every step ,islaam wants people go back to 15 century when a jihadi killer Muhammad start his ugly work
Yeah buddy, Islam is pretty much destroying the humankind itself..
@@sayantandey1679 just like apj Abdul Kalam
@@mskclasses8496 APJ is not considered Muslim by many Islamic people. Muslims dont believe in other religions but APJ did he even quotes Bagavat Gita and have a Guru.
@@0arjun077 😂😂😂😂 where did you even read that bullshit 🤣🤣🤣, there are radicals just like in every religion,(and by their definition of Islam i am a huge heritic 😂😂),we are in science and logic you people are fighting in the name of religion 🤣🤣 ,god bless you 😂😂
Many people in china,US, Europe thinks that Indian space agency and even India is far behind than them , but they always forget that when Britishers left india we were in very bad condition and still we were able to achieve this much i know that there's still a long way to go for India to become a superpower or a developed nation but u can't compare anything with India we are unique nation and we will become very powerful someday. Peace Jay hind
isro is way ahead of european space agency tf you mean?
Ofc europeans are lagging behind only usa china and russia are ahead of isro
Russia too recently failed in their attempt at lunar landing while we succeeded. ESA is miles behind ISRO currently. We have 3 competitors in US, Russia and China.
In western context when you become powerful you are a hegemonic power, you bully everyone else. In Indian context becoming powerful means you will take others with you. Just watch what india does to global south. It is a golden period for many countries in the years to come. Jai Hind!
Hard work pays off.... Every country has done significant work in space industry Go india👍
Wow! They’ve made amazing progress as a launch provider! Will be watching closely and hope for their further success
thank you for making this video, ISRO's achievements in a much lower budget than other space agencies have been amazing. Very proud to have family who worked there
Thanks Scott. I'm so happy youre unbiasedly covering indian, chinese, european, russian and the merucans equally. It's such an interesting golden age we live in (finally) for space exploration. I would love to see you perhaps ponder a bit on the whole China is not allowed to be part of the space station topic. I'm sure it would be both facinating and interesting to learn how this calamity arose and how it can be solved. Space it the opportuity for man to unite..!
"I'm sure it would be both facinating and interesting to learn how this calamity arose..." American paranoia. The Wolff Act. etc. "...and how it can be solved." China is building their own space station, and everyone is invited. Except America. That's how it's being solved.
@@Welcome2TheInternet that's space for you. I highly doubt though if anyone will want to go to Chinese space station
I think maybe because the PLA runs China's Space Program.....while space programs definitely have defence related offshoots, the US Army doesn't run NASA, it's a civilian agency, and that's where the problem lies with inviting China
@@prachetmakwana6011 How exactly does the PLA "runs" the CNSA? NASA is as involved with US military development as CNSA with Chinese./ The CNSA falls under the ministry of industry which does not Fall under the PLA, Two different branches of government that collaborates, whoopty doo.
@@jasondenton5432 Oh you think anything in China is not under the control of Xi. How cute.
It’s so cool that you made a video on ISRO. Been following your content for a long time. I believe every ISRO scientist should do the following: 1. Follow your videos 2. Play KSP
Most of us actually don't. I didn't even knew about ksp... Though that looks like a good game... Even if that's so we're not as kerbal as the Soviets for sure😅
What did you say , they are best even ever agency want to collaborate with isro . You don't need to teach isro's scientist . They are not just so called scientist . They are pride of India . So , please keep your suggestion to yourself. Jai Hind 🇮🇳
@UCy3FOkUZ8H35INoi32lpRlQ It's just a joke.
@@animeshrana358 Bruh, KSP is a great game and OP is a former ISRO scientist.
@@animeshrana358 cringe
Big props to Isro for all they’re accomplished but their rockets are definitely the most Kerbal rockets of any flying today. Massive rockets, many srbs, mid-flight staging… all hallmarks of ksp rocket designs.
Yeah.But we need to consider their low budget.
We don't pay too much attention to outer finishing, we're not selling them like cars
@@anandbaheti you are right...showing off is not the indian way...at least until recently
@@amalvijivcelebrating success is not showing off. No one was arrogant or telling others they can’t do it. In fact PM said it is accomplishment for the whole of humanity.
@@anandbaheti GSLV and LVM3 actually look really good.
USA didn’t help india in space tech but actually sanctioned india from 1992 to 2011 so Russia can’t help but Russia did help & Russia was sanctioned as well… both were sanctioned so both don’t care about sanctions anymore
Absolutely love the travel style posters for the Outer Wilds planets. Also, super interesting video, had no idea about ISRO being so successful.
ISRO also helps hundreds of countries who cannot otherwise afford to sent their satellites with other space organizations of the world. They also set a new record on highest number of sent to space on a single day.
That's space x
@@rincymathew1132 ya they broke that record recently
Really interesting video, Scott. Thanks. I had an experiment fly on the PSLV many years ago as a part of the CANX2 nano-satellite.
I love it when the thumbnail is just a bunch of rockets
From transporting our first satellite on the back of a bicycle to the verge of launching people to space. We've come far my brothers & sisters
India's space program is like playing KSP in career mode and they are doing an amazing job!
Its good to see other countries space program and tech. And their Rocket names makes sense.
Dmitri Konanykhin has a great video series about how he worked on the hydrogen upper stage for India in the 90's.
Aren't all his videos in Russian?
Cool.. Hopefully they will switch to all hydrogen and ditch these solid engines.... :)
Can you share the link of his videos?
They all in russian
@@EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV Completely worthless idea, solid motors are extremely cost effective and can scale with higher performance by augmenting a central core of any liquid propellant
Like the naming of the rockets. Very to the point. Can’t wait until they start having more ceremonial names like challenger
Well they kinda compensate their simple rocket name with their spacecraft name :v
@@zainiikhwan9405 spacecraft names are basically "-yaan" meaning "craft" or "vehicle" in Sanskrit. Chandra-yaan- Moon craft Mangal-yaan- Mars craft Shukra-yaan- Venus craft Gagan-yaan- Space/sky craft
@@tirthachakrabarti5912 Lmao. Guess they really like to keep it simple
@@zainiikhwan9405 yes 😄
Some ceremonial names are: Moon lander Vikram (Valour) Moon rover Pragyaan (Wisdom) Solar space observatory Aditya L1 (Sun) Vertical landing prototype booster ADMIRE etc.
I'm from India and we proud of our two great organization 1- ISRO and 2-DRDO they are proud of my country ❤️
Thank you for covering Indian rockets!
God bless ISRO - 🛸🍁
@@FandersonUfo thank you Bhai( bro) ❤️
@@animeshrana358 - 🛸💚
Would be cool to have a follow-up video on where they launch and any difficulties with or opportunities that they have vs other countries.
And the plus and minuses of fuel choices.
Solid fuel rockets are cheaper and simpler to make, but there is another reason why they took a longer time to develope liquid fuel engines: India's defense strategy does not need an ICBM, they started with liquid fuels only for the increased payloads they wanted to launch, and to achieve greater accuracy with thrust vectoring. Anyway, it's a brilliant progress they did.
Solid rockets are much much more polluting and especially destructive to the ozone layer. There needs to be a world wide ban on their production and use.
Solid fuel motors cannot be shut down once lit or throttled easily , Liquids make a lot of sense for precise orbital injections and efficiency, SRB's make sense for high thrust boost stages.
@@abhinavprashant2213 SRB's are a terrible idea for high boost stages because they produce a lot of chlorine as a waster product of the chemical reaction from burning propellant. It has been known for decades that chlorine from man made industrial sources and reaching the stratosphere is the main destroyer of the ozone layer and the very reason production and use of CFC's was banned.starting in the 1970's and finally achieved worldwide in 2010. In the 1990/1991 NASA looked at the issue and said that the world wide industrial production was 300 million kg of stratospheric chlorine (volcanos; account for a steady 75 million a year) and so the then planned launch of 6 Shuttles per year plus 6 Titans would only add another million kg of stratospheric chlorine so it did not matter. Since then a thorough study of the environmental effects of rocket launches has been done (published in May 2020) and it turn out that not just chorine but also the alumina particles and the soot from solid rocket motors affects the ozone layer. Plus and very importantly, the number of rocket launches is going up exponentially so that 'insignificant' amount of pollutants back in 1990 is no longer so small plus worldwide the industrial production of chlorine products has fallen further compared to the 1990's. Its time SRB's were removed from the equation. Hydrolox and Methalox propulsion systems while not perfect are much cleaner.
One day we India, USA, Britain, Australia, Canada, Japan, Europe, South America, Africa and Asia will all shake hands in space and work together as one humanity
Look like Civilization: Beyond Earth is coming along nicely.
Give nukes pls.
Nuclear Gandhi will now be living up in lunar orbit, with Tungsten rods instead of nukes
I remember watching a stream of the PSLV not knowing anything going in, and the damn thing just kept staging. "Stage 3 separation" Me: ok "Stage 4 separation" Me: what.
@@kitnascimento0 Even India was under US embargo for years because of nuclear test. US even stopped others to deliver Cryogenic engine. Check PSLV success rate. 51 success out of 53 launches (the very 1st one failed, another was heat shield separation problem, rocket worked fine). PSLV is one of the most economical rocket as well. Nothing to brag here. GSLV mk3 is 2 stage rocket (with boosters) so it's not true that ISRO engineers can't make 2 stage rocket. And which N. Korean rocket is more powerful than GSLV Mk3 may I know? They don't even have PSLV type capability. Don't talk like stupid.
@@kitnascimento0 you are comparing ISRO with other organizations, without considering the budget. Don't forget ISRO is the only organization which conquer the mars orbit on it's 1st attempt by spending less then the total budget of Hollywood movie "Gravity".
@@kitnascimento0 And the first organization to discover water on moon, having impressive rockets in squad doesn't make any organization great.
I guess everyone is a rocket science expert in the comments.
The fact that they're low cost with high success rate suggests ISRO know what they're doing. More than two stages are often used for interplanetary missions if we count kick stages, and that is perhaps more to do with modular and generic architectures than physics, but it's still a valid reason.
Just to add our lead scientist working on the cryo stage was falsely implicated for treason and his career was destroyed.Only now he was able to get justice for what happened to him.
They're already testing reusable rocket prototypes. I'm pretty sure ISRO would want to make a fully reusable rocket since it'd cut costs by a large margin.
A nation that made it's one of the best mind it's president....they are going to be the best
President's in India are always extra ordinary citizens or personalities and citizens don't vote about who should be the president it the MPs or representatives of the citizens that decide who should be the president but when Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam was the president the PM which is directly selected by the people was Atal bihari vajpayee and that's what indians call the best period for having two best leaders at leading positions also Dr. Kalam is known as missile man of India because he was also responsible for building India's nuclear payload delivery vehicle and he was also known as "people's President"
Yeah Kalam Sir was awesome. RIP.
Abdool is best
I sold some highly technical machinery parts to a company in India about fifteen-twenty years back. Got a call from Foreign Affairs Canada. They wanted to know if the devices could improve performance of a rocket! It took a while before I was able to convince them that no, it wouldn’t increase rocket range. That was when India and Pakistan were nearly at war.
That happens every year I can't recall a single year where we weren't all most at war either with China or with Pakistan
I'm guessing this happened during the kargil war of 1999
LOL. Would be around the time CIA targeted an Indian scientist who headed India's Cryogenic Engine program. Wonder why the West uses "India-Pakistan-Nukes-dangerous" as a fig leaf for all their attempts at retarding India's rise.
@@bramha9680 No, was middle 2000s based on where I was working.
@@WayneBorean the closest to 2000 is either 1999 kargil war when Pakistani army started the war without informing their own government and in the end they actually started mobilising their nukes but new info that is released shows they didn't had any delivery vehicles for their nukes while India has then the second closest scenario was in 2001 after indian parliament was attacked by terrorists and indian military actually started to mobilise to invade Pakistan.
Definitely most Kerbal origination. This is exactly how I build rockets in career mode.
I love the extra arms on the launch support tower, it's so utterly Hindu.
Huh?
It looks like the SH catch arms at Boca Chica sometimes!
Haha..Good one!
@@pianotaal most Hindi god and goddess have multiple arms
Good catch sir
I was hoping for some discussion of their upcoming plans for the SSLV and ULV, but I guess those may be too aspirational/incomplete for much information to be available publicly.
SSLV is 'Small Satellite Launch Vehicle'. 3 solid stages. Its uniqueness will be that it can be assembled by 6 people in 3 days. It's purpose is to launch small satellites commercially. It will be launched next year. ULV is 'Unified Launch Vehicle'. Basically it's a concept for a family of vehicles with common Semi-cryogenic core. With various combinations of some specific modular semi-cryogenic and cryogenic stages, medium to heavy-lifters can be built. This family of modular rockets will include the upcoming HLV or Heavylift Launch Vehicle. It may take several years. It is likely to have core stage reusability. The Semi-cryogenic engine SCE-200 is in advanced stage of development now. Kerosene and liquid Oxygen tanks for the core stage of 1st planned rocket under this family are already fabricated.
ULV will never exist HLV is the next
I love your videos Scott, I'm a big space nerd and I hope to become an astronomer and KZheadr as big and cool as you!! Fly safe!!
That Outer Wilds frame in the background is very heartwarming, as is the indian space program
Happy that Scott remembered india
India putting all those minds towards conquering ignorance instead of trying to conquer their fellow man. Bravo, show the world how to manifest your destiny WITHOUT trampling others. Love from the USA.
Just ignore their humanitarian problems and we are golden lmfao
To be fair, one of the reasons they put effort into solid motors was to make better ICBMs
@@witchblades997 humanitarian problems created by the 100 years of terrible british rule you mean? Which sowed the seeds of hatred among indians with the cast system and the partition you mean? The problems in the fastest developing nation you mean? Even though the country is one of the most densely populated country you mean? America didn't become what it is in a day.
@@scottmanley I agree there is military motivation , nonetheless it's development
@@witchblades997 India's so called humanitarian problems, as you are putting it is not due to space program. Infact space program is one of the biggest building block of country's R&D which inturn funds prosperity. If you are from STEM background with financial sense, anyone can easily correlate the equation between the two.
I m proud to be an indian....and for us...space is no longer limit for our pride 🇮🇳
I was waiting for a video about our country's space organisation, so thank you. I always want to comment about the statement 'Indian national space agency'. There is no 'Indian national space agency' but it's Indian space and research organisation. Thanks to sir S. Nambi Narayan for 'Vikas engine'.He was also one of the key people while the development of the 'viking engine'.
What India has accomplished is quite extraordinary given that it is a developing country. More good things to come from ISRO in the future. Namaste.
Thanks for another great video, Scott!
what u just watched 16min video in just 1min what a legend
Damn my guy I think u travel faster than the speed of light coz u just watched a 16 min video in less than 10 seconds
Impressive presentation as always 👍😊 Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us 👍😀
For all the Indians who've settled well in USA and other countries, please use these as motivation and come back to India to develop on India's successes. Current standard of living is pretty much the same as foreign. You'll even be considered rich in India these days. Think about it
Damn, that thrust vectoring system in the PSLV is pretty close to rocket science!
They went to Mars for $73 Million USD. If that isn't the definition of "cost effective", I don't know what is.
Nice to see this layout of their space program. Like aviation, we all eventually get to similar aerodynamic shapes, engines, fuels, etc. Besides money, what do you see as holding them up on engine and fuel technology? Is it a lack of alloy tech, turbo pump design, thrust vectoring or guidance tech? I thought it was pretty impressive seeing them launch to moon and mars. Even getting there w/o landing perfectly is a feat to be admired. I'm interested in hearing more about ISRO and other countries programs. I just saw an engine test by Brasil this morning!! I didn't know they had a program going.
Lack of allied industries that are R&D focused. In developed countries, the entire economy is geared towards knowledge creation. India, right now, is at a nascent stage of economic development where the majority of population is still dependent on Agriculture. From there, the growth to middle-income status (where majority population is in manufacturing or services jobs) will take the next couple of decades (till 2040). From there, India can try to think of creating a knowledge driven economy like USA, for example. But right now, such a thing is three quarters of a century away. Currently, government funded labs alone do virtually all the R&D in India. These labs fall under following Government departments:- Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Institute of Plasma Research (IPR), Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research (IGCAR), etc. Other than these, there are many universities like many Indian Institutes of Technology, National Institutes of Technology and an Indian Institute of Science as well as many other Center/State funded Universities that do some R&D. . Outside of this, the only R&D is being done by a few startups like Tonbo Imaging, InCore Semiconductors and QuNu Labs. R&D in Private sector, particularly by the large Indian conglomerates, is almost negligible. This is a major impediment to R&D in ISRO who can't rely on allied R&D by Industry-Academia partnerships and have to be the pioneer of everything (along with DRDO and other government labs). This is why money is not the only impediment to ISRO.
The animations of their crew vehicle are so bad, it makes me believe in their timeline more. I never trust anyone who puts too much money in animations.
Lol. I grew up with these animations during science programmes on Doordarshan, the Indian government's official TV Channel. If these animations are recent, they haven't changed since the late 90s. Which is fine for me actually. They do their job.
That animation is not the final animation it is just a raw render clip.
It is just base of animation , that will release during first gaganyaan mission .
unlike nasa and other space agencies, isro has ak very small budget plus that animation was just to give a basic idea of the mission
ISRO on tight budget. They cannot afford to invest in feel good things rather they invest on the core.
He should also have talked about how a 'international conspiracy " (incl. CIA) delayed India's leap into space by Involving ISRO scientist in false accusations
We are assembling the NASA and ISRO radar structure at JPL for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar mission (NISAR). Then the radar structure will be shipped to India for connection to an ISRO bus and launch on a GSLV rocket. It is going to low Earth orbit but has about 6 tons of mass so it requires GSLV .
It's amazing. It's some big ass satellite.
Great video for a layman like me, but after reading the comments I would love a follow up video that explains further how ISRO rockets are different to more conventional ones.
Thank you for this very informative episode about the Indian space program.
Thanku, lots of love from India.