Talk:Comparison of medium lift launch systems

GSLV Mk.III
Should this be here or on the heavy launchers page?

The heavy launchers is defined as 9000kg to GTO OR 20,000kg LEO. While it does not fulfill the former it does meet the latter so should be moved. 81.152.187.235 (talk) 16:49, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * When I checked the article on GSLV Mk.III itself, it says that the payload capacity is 10,000 kg LEO or 4,400 kg GTO, also according to the references given. Heilme (talk) 23:55, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

no data
why is there no information in columns "Cost/kg(LEO)" and "Cost/kg (GTO)"? -- 69.171.140.242 (talk) 20:11, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

probably, because everyone is too lazy to gather/calculate the data. maybe It'd be a good idea for someone to find a research paper on this, because I am sure the statistics for this have been done before. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.104.165.119 (talk) 20:11, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Year of first launch
Hello, Could you add a "Year of first launch" column please? It would be much more useful than the actual "Active/retired" value. Thanks, Yann (talk) 18:03, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Article needs substantial citations
This article is an interesting and useful one; however, per WP:V we should not be sourcing assertions with other Wikipedia articles, nor should we have substantive assertions that are not sourced by reliable secondary sources with inline citations. I have tagged just a few of the assertions that need cited with citation needed. Anyone have a good book that might or journal article that would cover this? N2e (talk) 17:09, 30 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I have removed some of the oldest tagged claims that yet remain unsourced, and tagged a few others. Without reliable sources for the many assertions on number-of-successes/total-launch ratios, the claims are clearly synthesis.  N2e (talk) 17:14, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Maybe this is related to discussion here. Alinor (talk) 15:16, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Price for a Soyuz launch
According to p.296 of Brian Harvey's book The Rebirth of the Russian Space Program, which is referencing data from European Space Directory 2006, the price for a Soyuz launch is €25-30 million. I don't know how to put this into the article since the article lists the different versions separately. PS. if you someone has a copy of European Space Directory 2010 - perhaps it has current prices there for every launch system? Offliner (talk) 16:08, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Dnepr converted launch vehicle
This comparison still misses Dnepr-1 converted missile R-36_(missile) which should fit into category medium lift LS. Could any1 add it? Thanks.--178.40.108.154 (talk) 20:17, 18 July 2011 (UTC)