alphadog_78

Mr: Musk, It's your move now, Please go ahead ;-)

Any ballpark estimate of the price Cisco paid for SamKnows?

Hi, Any software QA positions open?. I'm interested in applying.

Where do you park ?. I love to explore this idea considering how high the bay area rentals are. I guess this could be a faster way to payoff your student loan. -N

I would be esctatic if ISRO just breaks even..It's not about margins. Just Imagine the fact NASA or ISRO does not need to depend on Govt and they generating their own money and continuing their research without interruptions.

No Tax payer money going to them and don't need to depend on Congress/Senate/President/ Prime minister mood to fund them.

Where as Musk, he is a private entrepreneur. He is upping the space game like anything.

I'm not doubting whether ISRO will reach the weight range or not. It is how quickly they can reach in par with falcon 9.

As the payload doubles from 4000KG to 8000KG (to be in par with Falcon 9 ), You need to add more fuel and which increases the cost and total weightage of the rocket.

This additional weightage on the rocket will hamper the margins.

I'm not saying anything negative here and they have lot of work cut out for them because of re-usability of Falcon 9.

Overall, this is very good for us as competition drives the cost down and more and more services at lower cost.

Good positive start.

Congratulations ISRO.. Good step in right direction.

If we compare this to current SpaceX Falcon 9 (not Falcon Heavy ) http://www.spacex.com/falcon9

Falcon 9 can deliver 8300 Kg to GTO and 22,800kg to LEO.

GSLV MK III delivers 4000 Kg to GTO and 8000KG to LEO ( http://www.isro.gov.in/launchers/gslv-mk-iii )

Mr. Musk will be delivering hell lot of stuff to space with his reusable rockets. SO, he will be very cost competitive to ISRO w.r.t launch price.