Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Is ISRO part of the new Outsourcing wave?

http://www.rediff.com/news/report/isro-makes-history-launches-104-satellites-in-one-go/20170215.htm


We have launched 226 satellites out of which 179 are from foreign nations."
With a total payload of 1378 kgs, ISRO opted for the most powerful XL variant of the PSLV for the 16th time in Wednesday's mission. It had earlier been used in the 'Chandrayaan' and the Mars Orbiter Mission among others.

Break-up of the satellites 
>> Cartosat-2 Satellite - India
>> 88 Dove satellites - USA
>> 8 Lemur satellites – USA
>> BGUSat – Israel
>> 1 Al-Farabi – Kazakhstan 
>> PEASSS – The Netherlands
>> 2 DIDO – Switzerland
>> 1 Nayif - UAE

Out of 104, 102 were external/private Satellutes, who used ISRO for either low cost or ease of use.
This says a thing.
ISRO is now cheap & fast option to launch into Space.
There goes the decades of investment by Tax Payer to serve the World at large.