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It may look inefficient if judged only by its LEO lift figures, but ISRO is shaping this vehicle around deep-space and eventual interstellar mission requirements, and the design is tuned for high-energy injection rather than brute LEO mass. In that sense, its numbers fall in line with other...

But may not have their level of performance owing to lower performance carbon fibre composites. Do you know what level are we at? I think we benchmark against Toray Corporation's carbon fibre. I assume we haven't yet reached T-1000 maybe T-700.

This is second time docking after undocking which itself was after first time docking . This time they achieved Power Transfer between two Satellites which wasn't possible during first time docking. Iterative learning and Improvements.

full scale flight worthy combuster testing soon. I assume India is 3rd, Americans and Chinese may have tested theirs Scramjet to beyond 1000-Seconds. Would be fourth if Russians also achieved the same with say Zircon but I never saw any definitive proof of it being it as Scramjet.

US DoD has BAE fab with 140nm for GaAs, the workhorse for GaN is 180nm and they are targeting 90nm process. I don't know about others because this is what I got when i searched around. For GAETEC, I think they have been doing GaAs 500nm process node. Now I don't know what process node the above...

@Nilgiri @Gessler Do you think GaAs MMIC are actually fabricated in India from Wafer level? Afterall if there was any there would be announcement right? GAETEC in Hyderabad is a Laboratory but not on level of Industrial or Production ready level to supply to Indian Industry for Radar...

This is as important as NGLV. Somewhere I read a Boeing Satellite weighing in 5 Ton was brought down to 2 Ton for same functionality.

F-35 supply chains are well established. The program isn't that into infancy like Su-30 Or in Mid Life for Indian Companies to get into that ecosystem. IAF for all flaws extensively modified jets. It's unlikely that they would be willing to invest in 100s of F-35 given that there is zero chance...

The information is gathered from other forums and credit to Original author* Some of the technologies in Jet Engine and how far DRDO has come- Single Crystal Blades: India’s DRDL developed DMS3 SC in 2003, but it wasn’t up to the high-performance standards required for advanced turbine engines...

This restart capability is for ADMIRE Program to demonstrate VTVL. On a broader note, it seems the Indian Space Industry unlike the MIC doesn't suffer from any penny pinching or short-term band aid solutions. The first steps were hard, but moving on and on akin to a snowball effect their...