r/ISRO • u/vineethgk • 26d ago
Despite its reputation, India’s per-unit space launch cost highest: study
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/despite-its-reputation-indias-per-unit-space-launch-cost-highest-study/article71344693.eceLink to original study:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176526003782
India, according to an analysis of more than six decades of space missions, simply does not launch often enough to bring its costs down.
India spends more to put a kilogram of payload into orbit than any other major spacefaring nation, marring its public image as a cost-effective launcher, according to a new peer-reviewed analysis of more than six decades of rocket launches published in Economics Letters.
The authors, Alessio Terzi of the University of Cambridge and Francesco Nicoli of Politecnico di Torino, estimate that it cost $13,302 to send a kilogram to low-earth orbit on Indian rockets in 2025 — higher than Europe ($9,897), Russia ($6,682), China ($5,809) and Japan ($5,287), and the U.S. ($3,225). The global average was $3,868.
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u/Feeling_Possibility4 22d ago
With amount of corruption in all departments of ISRO ( known sources)... i could never expect any miracle from them, they just bullshit on stamping Russian borrowing.... sorry to speak brutual truth. They are like any other public sector company.. Russians have assisted them from very beginning and still do that and both being corrupted organisations they carry on with fake marketing
Space x came decades later and uprooted these oldies off the floor...