Indian Scram jet Engine to be tested in 2014

[Badbadman]

Indians have only one thing.................lot of time

Absolutely correct.

 

[IND151]

The Thiruvananthapuram-based Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had designed and ground tested a scramjet in 2005.A press release stated that stable supersonic combustion was demonstrated in ground testing for nearly seven seconds with an inlet Mach number of six.
In 2008, a flight test of a full engine (intake, combustion and nozzle) was conducted. It was a suborbital ballistic trajectory based experiment using a two-stage RH-560 sounding rocket.

India is currently developing a SSTO reusable spacecraft called the AVATAR RLV. It uses scramjet propulsion to reach LEO carrying a 1 tonne payload. Its maiden flight is expected to take place in 2013.

Scramjet programs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

thanks for info

 

[satishkumarcsc]

India tests scramjet engine combustor module - Satellite News - Just another satellite weblog

Welcome To ISRO :: Press Release :: March 03, 2010

 

[Foo_Fighter]

Sorry to open a dominant thread.

However, it said that DODO will test a scram-jet engine by 2014, we are nearly at the end of 2014... any further developments or just we have been trolled by DODO, yet again?

 

[The Great One]

Sorry to open a dominant thread.

However, it said that DODO will test a scram-jet engine by 2014, we are nearly at the end of 2014... any further developments or just we have been trolled by DODO, yet again?

I think they also said that we'll have MMRCA rolling out by 2014. So yeah, what they say doesn't count.

 

[IND151]

BANGALORE: India's ambitions of developing a hypersonic vehicle which will launch an unmanned cruise missile are being realized in Bangalore. The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) will play a key role in simulating the speeds and conducting tests in its newly commissioned hypersonic wind tunnel.

B Vasudevan, head, Hypersonic Wind Tunnel, said: "This can test any object that will fly in space. The funding for the project came from the Defence Research and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad."

The 0.5 metre tunnel, which was commissioned on Tuesday, is the second largest facility in the country; the largest is at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of Isro in Thiruvananthapuram.

Vasudevan said the first project at the facility will be the testing of the Hypersonic Technology Demonstration Vehicle. "We have tested seven of these vehicle models and this will be the eighth. The development is likely to be completed in two years," he added.

A senior DRDO official told TOI the HSTDV has achieved the 6.5 Mach (a measure of speed). It, he said, would give India a lead in hypersonic vehicle design, scramjet, material technology and how to manage the environment peculiar to hypersonic flying engines.

He also pointed out that the tunnel cost about Rs 6 crore and similar facilities abroad have been constructed at costs of over hundreds of crores of rupees.

"This facility will save the country a lot of money as we're charging only about Rs 2 crore for tests which would cost Rs 15 or Rs 20 crore in Russia or some other countries," he said.

Explaining the HSTDV project, he said: "It will be the equivalent of Nasa's X43 and a huge achievement for our scientists once it's ready for use by the armed forces."

IISc will also conduct tests on the next version of the BrahMos missile. A senior official of BrahMos Aerospace, who was at IISc on Tuesday, said: "We're moving ahead on supersonic now. The next version of BrahMos will be hypersonic and we're looking at good results."

Isro's re-entry vehicle prototype and some new missile projects in the pipeline which IISc cannot discuss under a non-disclosure agreement are the immediate projects for this wind tunnel.

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