India has successfully launched its own launch vehicle

It seems that India is purposefully taking steps to develop its own space program. At the same time, everything goes relatively smoothly. Now for the third time India has successfully launched a launch vehicle with a cryogenic engine of its own design. The GSLV-D6 launch vehicle will send a GSAT-6 into geostationary orbit.

For the first time, India experienced an engine of its own design in 2007. In 2010, the launch of the launch vehicle with the same engine was unsuccessful. The first successful launch of a carrier rocket with cryogenic engines was carried out last year, first in January and then in December.

A cryogenic rocket engine uses cryogenic fuel and an oxidizer, which are gases cooled to a very low temperature and stored in corresponding tanks in a liquid state. Indian engineers proposed using liquid hydrogen (LH2) fuel and liquid oxygen (LOX) as a fuel / oxidizer mixture.
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Now the leadership of the space program of India is implementing a project to create an enterprise that will produce cryogenic engines. Construction of the plant has already begun, the company is located in the city of Bangalore, Karataka state.

India plans to create a manned spacecraft in the future, as well as send a man (or the whole team) into orbit.

Earlier, India surprised the whole world by building a Martian orbital probe from scratch, and successfully sending this probe into the orbit of Mars. Thanks to the satellite, India set several records at once:

• First, now India is the first Asian country to join the exploration of Mars;
• Secondly, the cost of the satellite was only $ 74 million (for comparison, the American Maven satellite cost US taxpayers $ 671 million US dollars);
• Third, India is the first country to successfully launch the Martian spacecraft and deliver it to Mars from the very first attempt;
• And fourth, for India itself, this is the first spacecraft launched to another planet.

And a few more interesting facts about the "Indian space":

• The budget of the Indian space program is only 1 billion US dollars - a little more than 5% of the NASA budget;
• The average salary of a specialist from the space sector (it is clear that the average temperature in the hospital, but still) - 1000 US dollars;
• Preparation for the launch of the satellite (planning, design, implementation) took only 18 months. Other countries have a period of 60 months or more;
• The satellite did not have any prototypes, everything worked out practically from scratch.