Thursday, February 13th, 2025

Musk’s company will launch ISRO’s advanced satellite from America, know how it will prove to be a trump card

New Delhi : Things have started changing in America after Donald Trump was elected President. Elon Musk, friend of America’s new President Donald Trump and owner of SpaceX company, has also started getting benefits from this. Musk’s company SpaceX is the first major beneficiary of the deal worth crores of rupees made by India’s space agency. Early next week, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will launch India’s most advanced communications satellite GSAT-20, also known as GSAT N-2, into orbit.

Deal before presidential elections

The vision and timing of the space launch is perfect. However, coincidentally this deal was before the US election results. Therefore, critics of Washington DC or New Delhi cannot raise the issue of ‘crony capitalism’. This is the first of many commercial engagements of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) with SpaceX. While some say that ISRO and SpaceX are competitors for low-cost launches.

Although no one doubts that SpaceX is far ahead in the global commercial space market. It is known to all that Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have a very good relationship. Both the leaders call each other ‘their friend’.

Why is it being launched from America?

GSAT-N2 will be launched from Cape Canaveral, America. This 4,700 kg satellite manufactured by ISRO was too heavy for Indian rockets. Therefore it was sent for foreign commercial launch. India’s own rocket ‘Baahubali’ or launch vehicle Mark-III could carry a maximum mass of 4,000-4,100 kg to geostationary transfer orbit.

India was till now dependent on Arianespace to launch its heavy satellites. However, it currently does not have any operational rockets. The only credible option India had was to go with SpaceX. Chinese rockets are unsuitable for India. At the same time, due to the conflict in Ukraine, Russia is not able to offer its rocket for commercial launching.

What is ISRO saying?

Radhakrishnan Durairaj, Chairman and MD of New Space India Limited, ISRO’s Bengaluru-based commercial branch, said while talking to a TV channel that we got a good deal with SpaceX on this first launch. he/she said that the cost of launching this special satellite… the technical compatibility and the commercial deal… I would say that it was a good deal for us to launch such a heavy satellite on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket.

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