India is set to launch a scale model of a reusable spacecraft on Monday

Re:India is set to launch a scale model of a reusable spacec... by deanstag on Monday May 23, 2016 @12:38AM (#11751910)

'Everything went according to the projectory, he said adding that the winged space plane will not be recovered from the sea.' - Is that okay? Do a lot of missions around the world consider sea a dumping ground?

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Re:India is set to launch a scale model of a reusable spacec... by lmm on Monday May 23, 2016 @06:56AM (#11753016)

The ocean, for spacecraft first stages, yes. Rocket launches are so infrequent and the ocean so large that it seems irrelevant, and in any case there's no practical alternative for a nation that's just getting started with spaceflight.

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Re:India is set to launch a scale model of a reusable spacec... by pravula on Monday May 23, 2016 @01:50PM (#11755509)

India has been launching from 1960s. It is not "a nation that's just getting started with spaceflight"

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Re:India is set to launch a scale model of a reusable spacec... by iLoch on Monday May 23, 2016 @12:43AM (#11751922)

Yeah. My mission of taking the garbage out, amongst others.

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Re:India is set to launch a scale model of a reusable spacec... by abhishekash on Monday May 23, 2016 @12:48AM (#11751939)

As per point 6 and 7 on http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-all-set-to-launch-its-o... , it seems that India does not intend to dump unwanted stuff in the sea

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Re:India is set to launch a scale model of a reusable spacec... by hackaflocka on Monday May 23, 2016 @12:55AM (#11751967)

If I were a competing space agency, I'd get my hands on the wreckage ASAP (if India doesn't plan to recover it).

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