Indian Space Capabilities

[AMCA]

To hell with the poor,an extra billion $ each year on a Org which delivers is not going to hurt anybody,we need to be ahead in space if this country wants to walk with it's head held high & good night Shubh Ratri

We are not going to fatasize the the future and invest on technology to colonize space. Our space technology is dedicated to common man and thats something we all should be really proud of. I am not denying the need of space technology, but thats one among 1000 departments India needs to invest.

 

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Ten years ago, on 14 January 2004, Mars Express took its very first images of Mars in colour and in 3D.

To mark the occasion, the Mars Express team produced a fly-through movie of the ancient flood plain Kasei Valles. The movie is based on the 67-image mosaic released as part of the ten-years-since-launch celebrations in June 2013.

The scene spans 987 km in the north–south direction, 19–36°N, and 1550 km in the east–west direction (280–310°E). It covers 1.55 million square kilometres, an area equivalent to the size of Mongolia.

Kasei Valles is one of the largest outflow channel systems on Mars, created during dramatic flood events. From source to sink, it extends some 3000 km and descends 3 km.

Kasei Valles splits into two main branches that hug a broad island of fractured terrain – Sacra Mensa – rising 2 km above the channels that swerve around it. While weaker materials succumbed to the erosive power of the fast-flowing water, this hardier outcrop has stood the test of time.

Slightly further downstream, the flood waters did their best to erase the 100 km-wide Sharonov crater, crumpling its walls to the south. Around Sharonov many small streamlined islands form teardrop shapes rising from the riverbed as water swept around these natural obstacles.

The Lyman Alpha Photometer (LAP) on-board ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft measures the relative abundance of deuterium and hydrogen from lyman-alpha emission in the Martian upper atmosphere. Measurement of D/H (Deuterium to Hydrogen abundance Ratio) allows us to understand the loss process of water from the planet.

The Planetary Science and Remote Sensing Group at Freie Universität Berlin produced the movie. The processing of the High Resolution Stereo Camera image data was carried out at the DLR German Aerospace Center.

(Video credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/G. Neukum)
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[Echo_419]

We are not going to fatasize the the future and invest on technology to colonize space. Our space technology is dedicated to common man and thats something we all should be really proud of. I am not denying the need of space technology, but thats one among 1000 departments India needs to invest.

I am not saying that we should put all our money in space,but we should invest more in space specially when it is the next frontier

 

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As per today's calculations: (August 7 2014)

Mars Orbiter Mission has completed more than 86% of its Journey,

Days remaining - 49 days
Distance travelled daily - 1900800 kms
Distance travelled per hour - 79200 kms
Distance travelled per minute - 1320 kms
Distance travelled per second - 22 kms

Therefore, speed of the vehicle is 22 km/sec

One way delay is around 8 minutes = 480 seconds.
Round Trip Light Time = 16 minutes = 960 seconds.

Distance from earth is more than 117 million km (or) 117000000 km.
Distance between Mars and Mars Orbiter is less than 24 million km (or) 24000000 km.
Total Distance Travelled is more than 656,577 million km.

Mars Orbit Insertion is planned on 24th September 2014.

Note-All information are not accurate, the give light time is arguably different than mentioned here.

 

[AMCA]

I am not saying that we should put all our money in space,but we should invest more in space specially when it is the next frontier

USD 1 Billion is a Big amount for ISRO. Its equivalent to every 5 Billion NASA Invests.

 

[Echo_419]

USD 1 Billion is a Big amount for ISRO. Its equivalent to every 5 Billion NASA Invests.

We need that money,even with that we are not close to what NASA spends & keep in mind we are very far behind them

 

[AMCA]

We need that money,even with that we are not close to what NASA spends & keep in mind we are very far behind them

We are not in any Race here. We are not economically strong yet to establish ourselves in space science. We can only play catch up until our millennium goals are fulfilled.

 

[Echo_419]

We are not in any Race here. We are not economically strong yet to establish ourselves in space science. We can only play catch up until our millennium goals are fulfilled.

That's why i said as the economy grows

 

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AVATAR Reusable Launch Vehicle

The cost of access to space is the major deterrent in space exploration and space utilization. A reusable launch vehicle is the unanimous solution to achieve low cost, reliable and on-demand space access.

Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstration Program or RLV-TD is a series of technology demonstration missions that have been considered as a first step towards realizing a Two Stage To Orbit (TSTO) fully re-usable vehicle. A Winged Reusable Launch Vehicle technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) has been configured to act as a flying test bed to evaluate various technologies, namely, hypersonic flight, autonomous landing, powered cruise flight and hypersonic flight using air-breathing propulsion.

These technologies will be developed in phases through a series of experimental flights. The first in the series of experimental flights is the hypersonic flight experiment (HEX) followed by the landing experiment (LEX), return flight experiment (REX) and scramjet propulsion experiment (SPEX). Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Demonstrator Hypersonic Experiment (RLV-TD HEX1) wherein the hypersonic aero-thermo dynamic characterization of winged reentry body along with autonomous mission management to land at a specified location and characterization of hot structures are planned to be demonstrated.

Welcome to Indian Space Research Organization-ISRO - Reusable Launch Vehicle

 

[kurup]

 

[SOHEIL]

Still waiting for MK3

 

[kurup]

Still waiting for MK3

You will have to wait till 2017

 

[SOHEIL]

You will have to wait till 2017

what happend to 2014 sub orbital test !?

 

[Echo_419]

Damn we need to move more faster,our launch capability is laughable