GSLV mK III with SRE-2 atop to be launched in April 2014

[HariPrasad]

 

[Indo-guy]

This is again video of solid booster S200....not CE 20 !

 

[SOHEIL]

New propulsion system :

@kurup
@Guynextdoor2
@KRAIT

 

[HariPrasad]

Although our experience with cryogenic engine will come handy , semi-cryo engine is supposed to produce 2000KN when comparing to CE-7.5 which produces just 73.5KN .

Anyways , IMO , the development will be completed in this decade itself .

Also there were reports of Ukrainian hand in our semi-cryo engines .

it started in 2008 with a deadline to complete that in 6 years. It should complete in current year. I believe that you want say 200 KN and not 2000 KN.

 

[HariPrasad]

But our idea was to get hands-on experience with cryogenic systems over three years so that we could be in a position to develop full cryogenic engines on our own, on the basis of this experience," Mukunda adds.

Moreover, much better hardware is available today. So developing the semi-cryo engine should not take more than three years," Prof. Mukunda says.

 

[kurup]

Test of S200 solid booster , not CE-20 .

At 0:40 and 1:03 , the test shown is of L110 Liquid stage .

 

[kurup]

it started in 2008 with a deadline to complete that in 6 years. It should complete in current year. I believe that you want say 200 KN and not 2000 KN.

So semi-cryogenic project should be completed this year itself . Let see if they can complete within the deadline .

200KN is the projected power of CE-20 cryogenic engine .

Semi-cryogenic engine is rated at 2000KN .

 

[HariPrasad]

So semi-cryogenic project should be completed this year itself . Let see if they can complete within the deadline .

200KN is the projected power of CE-20 cryogenic engine .

Semi-cryogenic engine is rated at 2000KN .

When we complete this project, It will give us a huge boost in carrying capacity of our space vehicles.

 

[kurup]

New propulsion system :

@kurup

Is that system going to be used in next Iranian rocket ....

 

[SOHEIL]

Is that system going to be used in next Iranian rocket ....

4 cats as strap on boosters can send a human into space

This is my proposal for stupid politicians !

 

[Indo-guy]

Now, ISRO Well on Course to Test Launch Rocket Giant -The New Indian Express

Now, ISRO Well on Course to Test Launch Rocket Giant
ByTiki Rajwi - THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
Published: 30th January 2014 08:18 AM
Last Updated: 30th January 2014 08:18 AM
Work on India’s most powerful rocket to date, scheduled for an experimental flight in April, is progressing fast.
The first stage of the hefty Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk-III (GSLV Mk-III) is ready, officials of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) here said.
Two S-200 boosters, which use solid fuel, comprise the first stage of Mk-III. This stage will burn for 130 seconds. “The stage is ready. Work is now progressing on the second stage at the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) in Mahendragiri,” VSSC director S Ramakrishnan said. The GSLV Mk-III has three ‘stages’ in all.
The second stage uses liquid fuel - Unsymmetrical Dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) with Dinitrogen Tetroxide. This stage - L 110 - has two advanced Vikas engines and will burn for 200 seconds. The upper, third stage uses a more powerful version of the cryogenic engine used on the recent GSLV D-5 mission. The engine has been designated CE-2O and uses Liquid Oxygen and Liquid Hydrogen as fuel. Theoretically, this stage will burn for 580 seconds, but the April flight being an experimental one, the cryo stage won’t be carrying propellant.
Tests are currently progressing on the engine at present, LPSC director M C Dathan said on the sidelines of a reception given to ISRO scientists here on Monday. ‘’The third test has been conducted successfully,’’ he said.
At 42.4 metres, Mk-III is shorter than the regular GSLV, but it has a lift-off weight of around 630 tonnes compared to the latter’s 400 tonnes. Mk-III can place satellites weighing up to four tonnes in the geostationary transfer orbit, giving ISRO an edge in the market. If everything goes according to plan, the assembly of the rocket will begin at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, in February.
“The GSLV Mk-III will have a sub-orbital flight in April. It will have as payload a prototype of the crew module meant for the manned mission,” Ramakrishnan said.
Mk-III will lift off from the second launchpad at Sriharikota, the same one the GSLV D-5 used on January 5. No modifications will be needed to the launchpad as it can accommodate the bigger GSLV, Ramakrishnan said. A regular flight of the Mk-III version is expected only by 2016.

 

[nik22]

New propulsion system :

Super Powerful Natural FART

 

[SOHEIL]

Super Powerful Natural FART

Semi cryogenic fart

 

[Indo-guy]

GSLV to soar into sky with crew capsule in June - The Hindu


India’s huge Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV- Mark III) will soar into the sky with a crew capsule from Sriharikota in June, signalling that the country is getting ready to send its own astronauts into space. It will be an experimental mission and it will carry no astronauts. This crew capsule will return to the earth with parachutes.
It would be identical to the “final crew capsule in structural and thermo-structural parts,” said S. Ramakrishnan, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram. “We will take it beyond the atmosphere, make it re-enter the earth’s atmosphere, decelerate it and make a soft touchdown in the Bay of Bengal off the Andaman coast. We will make efforts to recover it.”
The VSSC Director was speaking to reporters here after the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C24) put into orbit India’s second navigation satellite, the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS-1B).
Mr. Ramakrishnan said the Indian Space Research Organisation would evaluate the structural and thermal protection systems to withstand the re-entry load, and thermo-dynamic heating.
This crew capsule will not contain the life-support systems which will be required when actual astronauts fly in the crew capsule. “We will be measuring the environment inside the capsule which will give inputs on the validation of the astronauts’ life-support systems in terms of temperature, vibration and shock which will be experienced inside the crew capsule. This will help us in designing the life-support systems when we actually fly the astronauts into space.”
No astronauts would be aboard the crew capsule in the GSLV-MkIII mission, he stressed.
K. Radhakrishnan, ISRO Chairman, said the June mission would be a passive flight. Its massive cryogenic engine would not fire.
The GSLV-MkIII was getting assembled at Sriharikota, Dr. Radhakrishnan said. Its two strap-on motors had arrived at the spaceport. . The cryogenic stage is getting ready in the ISRO Propulsion Complex at Mahendragiri, Tamil Nadu.
Dr. Radhakrishnan said the PSLV would put into orbit in June the French SPOT-7 satellite and four other satellites from abroad.

 

[trident2010]

Do they going to put cryogenic engine also or only mock up cryo stage with realistic weight?