India successfully launches PSLV

[Contrarian]

ISRO's recoverable space capsule returns

BANGALORE: After 11 days in space, a recoverable satellite of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) re-entered the earth and splashed down in the Bay of Bengal this morning as planned.

As part of the mission, ISRO's workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C7) had put Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE) satellite into space along with three others on January 10, space agency sources said.

The capsule splashed down around 9.30 am, ISRO sources said, adding that efforts were being made to recover it. “The capsule has splashed down. The Coast Guard has located the area”.

The 550-kg SRE, that would help ISRO hone its skills in re-entry, recoverable and re-usable technologies, had two payloads to conduct experiments in micro-gravity.

The PSLV-C7 had injected India's Cartosat-2, apart from SRE satellite, and two others from overseas -- LAPAN-TUBSAT, a joint venture of Indonesia and the Technical University of Berlin, and the Pehuensat-1 of Argentina.

The 550-kg Space-Capsule Recovery Experiment was intended for demonstrating the capability to recover an orbiting space capsule, as also the associated technologies.

"SRE is intended to test reusable thermal protection system, navigation, guidance and control, hypersonic aero-dynamics, management of communication blackout, deceleration and floatation system and recovery experiments", ISRO officials here said.

SRE, according to ISRO, is made of mild-steel, and comprises aero-thermo structure, spacecraft platform, deceleration and floatation system and micro-gravity payloads. The parachute, pyro devices, avionics packages of triggering unit and sequencer, telemetry and tracking system and sensors for measurement of system performance parameters are placed inside the SRE capsule.

An ISRO official said SRE was used to perform experiments in micro-gravity environment.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ISROs_recoverable_space_capsule_back/articleshow/1364183.cms

 

[Neo]

Cheers!!
The SRE experiment was a success!!

On to Chandrayaan..!

Congrats!

 

[joey]

^ Neo i swear like your attitude! Whats ur IM address? people like you that too from pakistan are rare to find and definitely makes great friends.............

Have u checked my tabbed report on previous page? on the objectives of the mission?



anyways here check the pic from a tasmil newspaper, fkin TOI was busy licking arses of phoren peoples, a tamil daily posted such a pic.

 

[Contrarian]

Man, TOI is really fkd up if a tamil paper could get the pics, but it couldnt. What about HT, etc? Did any1 else get the pics??

On SRE, i like the hape
Re-entry technology works then.

To Neo,
Mate, i respect you a LOT really. You have one of the best attitudes i have seen anywhere. People like you do indeed make great friends, and i second whatever Joey has said

 

[Lilo]

Did any one notice that one heat sheilding tile is missing ...exposing the green surface underneath??

shuttle columbia disintegrated due one such damage to its thermal protection system (TPS).

 

[joey]

Lets wait for more reports from ISRO.
and NO thats not disintegrated heatshield as no such incident happened.

and underneath is white adhesive then steel so it will be white [ven shown on TV its white and look at edges] not green.

 

[joey]

Apparently there r 3-4 pics in net circulatingf with 3-4 appearances

 

[Contrarian]

India’s space recovery test a hit

CHENNAI: The recovery satellite put into orbit by the Polar Synchronised Launch Vehicle PSLV-C7 12 days ago was brought safely back to earth Monday, marking India’s first attempt to test re-entry and recovery[technology]. The Space Recovery Experiment-1 (SRE-1) splashed down in the waters of the Bay of Bengal at 9.45 am, about 140 km from where it had taken off into space at the Sriharikota launch station in Andhra Pradesh.

“Its speed at the time was about 40 km per hour, the speed of a car,” said an official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), adding that it was located by a coast guard helicopter and recovery efforts were in full swing. The satellite will be towed first to an area off the Ennore harbour, north of Chennai. The coast guard vessel will then slowly navigate northward to Sriharikota and reach the station by night.

On January 10, the PSLV-C7 had put the into space four satellites. Three of these were communication satellites — one Indian, one Indonesian and one Argentinean. The fourth satellite was the SRE-1, which weighed 550 kg and was shaped like a cone. It was placed 625 km above the earth. Its re-entry is the first Isro test of re-usable vehicles and satellites before India launches its moon mission in Feb 2008.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1388420.cms