India's Mini-Shuttle Blasts Into Elon Musk's Race For Space

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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1464018645008","data":"India successfully launched a scale model of a reusable spacecraft on Monday, a project that in time could pit the nation against billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in the race to make access to space cheaper and easier. <\/p>The winged vessel -- one-fifth of full size -- blasted off on a rocket from Sriharikota base on the southeastern coast, the Indian Space Research Organisation said. The spacecraft touched an altitude of 65 kilometres (40 miles) and drifted back at supersonic speeds for a splashdown in the Bay of Bengal. <\/p>The test took about 13 minutes. India put a probe into Mars orbit in 2014 for just $74 million, showing a combination of technological ability and low costs that sound with the goal of more regular space travel being championed by Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and Bezos's Blue Origin. Both companies attempt to control costs by making rockets reusable and are conducting test launches more often.  <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1464019327546","data":"574329978ae80"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1464018979931","data":"\"While India's effort is behind the likes of SpaceX and Blue Origin, there are still others further behind and all of the solutions remain to be proven, both technically and from a cost perspective,\" <\/i>said David Wireman, a Dallas-based managing director and aerospace specialist at consultancy AlixPartners. <\/p>\"Although the technical hurdles are quite high, it's reasonable to believe India can be successful.\" Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a Twitter post congratulated the space research unit for successfully launching the nation's \"first indigenous space shuttle.\"<\/i> <\/p>The reusable space vehicle is assumed to provide a cost-effective and dependable option for operations such as launching satellites, according to the Indian space agency. <\/p>\"Space is no longer a domain that's dominated by the U.S. and Europe,\" said Ajey Lele, a New Delhi-based senior fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. Asian nations are \"now making forays,\" <\/i>he said. <\/p>Modi looks after the Department of Space, whose victory give the premier an opportunity to market India as a target for high-technology investment. The nation continues about eight years away from a full-scale version of the reusable space vehicle and yet has to pass the obstacle of steering the vessel safely back to land rather than water, according to the Indian space agency. <\/p>"}]

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