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India all set for its Rs 200-cr space mission
August 19, 2013
NDTV reports: India will launch a home-made massive rocket and a communications satellite, GSAT-14 at 4.50 pm today. This is the second time in three years that an Indian-made cryogenic engine will be used for a rocket to deposit an advanced communications satellite in space.
The rocket has cost the country
Rs 160 crore, and the satellite's price is
Rs 45 crore. So the mission costs over
Rs. 200 crore.
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