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Everyone Wants Their Own Space Station

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
June 14, 2019
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Everyone Wants Their Own Space Station

India to have its own space station: ISRO, The Hindu
“India plans to have its own space station, and modalities for it will be worked out after the first manned mission, Gaganyaan, scheduled for August 2022, K. Sivan, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), said on Thursday. “We want to have a separate space station. We will launch a small module for microgravity experiments… that is our ambition,” he said, addressing the media. A detailed report would be submitted to the government after the Gaganyaan mission. Dr. Sivan said the proposed space station is envisaged to weigh 20 tonnes and serve as a facility where astronauts can stay for 15-20 days, and it would be placed in an orbit 400 km above earth. The time frame for launch is 5-7 years after Gaganyaan, he added. The ISRO would also join the international space community for a manned mission to moon and beyond, Dr. Sivan said.”

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6 responses to “Everyone Wants Their Own Space Station”

  1. TheBrett says:
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    That sounds like an extremely smart proposal for a microgravity research space station, assuming they give it enough on-board electrical power. Keep it small for microgravity experiments, make it tended rather than constantly occupied, and so forth.

    • fcrary says:
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      You mean, it’s as if they decided why they wanted a space station before deciding to build one? And managed to remember why they wanted it when they put together the design requirements? Imagine that. With that kind of thinking, maybe it won’t cost over $100 billion to build.

  2. richard_schumacher says:
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    It will need:
    – A cricket ground
    – Separate Hindu and Muslim sections
    – A facility for manufacturing contaminated ineffective generic drugs

  3. ThomasLMatula says:
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    Why not? The more the merrier!

  4. SpaceHoosier says:
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    I get the enthusiasm for more space faring nations. However, over the long haul, it seems to me that until nations can learn to work cooperatively instead of separately, humanity will never reach beyond a few flag planting/foot print operations on the moon and mars.

    Yes, the ISS has issues with planning and usage and just who is going to man the thing and continue paying for it in the future. But look at what the international community achieved through the initial cooperation in building and flying it.

    As much as I’m a huge proponent of commercial space, the really BIG stuff is only going to get done when as many nations as possible contribute collectively.