Raise the space bar: As SpaceX provides some of cheapest satellite launches, what can ISRO do to reclaim cost advantage?

April 8, 2016. The Falcon 9 rocket launched a cargo capsule to the International Space Station and its first stage landed on a floating barge off the coast of Florida, making it reusable. It was a historic first, a spectacle like never before. October 13, 2024. Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp aka SpaceX raised the bar even higher when it tested the much larger and heavier Starship rocket. The party piece was the return of the first-stage booster, which was plucked out of air by the giant robotic arms of the launch tower. The world gasped again.