Indian Space Capabilities

[niaz]

SO the indians are moving with a nice pace in the SPACE ...

To give credit where it is due; Indians have been in this business much longer than we have. I remember reading about Indian Missile/Rocket research program back in the sixties when I was still a student. Think there was also a mock up of first Indian space rocket at the Sciece museum next to Natural History museum building in London.

I was presented a copy autobiography of Dr Abul Kalam, now President of India by a friend which in a way is also history of Indain Space research.
Apparently Indian Rocket program had started as early as Pandit Nehru era.

 

[Contrarian]

Yes, do you know there is a CLASSIC foto...i cant find it now.

There were humble beginings for India...The FIRST satellite was taken to the launch center in Orrisa on a BICYCLE!

I cant find that image now...its such a beautiful image and classic image...nostalgic. It was published in Hindu once.

 

[Lilo]

GSLV Mark-III launch in 2009: ISRO
[3 May, 2007 l 1540 hrs ISTlPTI]

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AHMEDABAD: India's ambition to grab a slice of the billion-dollar global satellite launch market will get a major boost when ISRO makes the maiden launch of its new Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark-III in 2009.

"The development of GSLV Mark-III is progressing well and we hope to have its maiden launch in 2009," said Madhavan Nair, Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), on Thursday.

The GSLV Mark-III is an entirely new three-stage launch vehicle and is not derived from PSLV or GSLV Mark-I or II series.

With the development of GSLV Mark-III, India will be able to launch heavy satellites into the geosynchronous transfer orbit. This vehicle is billed as the technological successor to GSLV Mark-II.

Nair, who was at Space Applications Centre here to attend a "National Telemedicine Users' Meet", told the media that ISRO had identified the problems that had caused the failure of GSLV Mark-II launch last year.

"Last year we had a failure. But we have identified the reasons for it."

"There is nothing wrong with the design or any of the other sub-systems. It was only a fabrication error which caused the failure," he said of the three-stage 414 tonne launch vehicle which had lifted off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in July 2006 only to plunge into the Bay of Bengal with a 2,168-kg INSAT-4C satellite.

Nair said ISRO had rectified the snag and the space agency will be re-launching the GSLV Mark-II by October this year.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/GSLV_Mark-III_launch_in_2009_ISRO/articleshow/1998598.cms

Here's the foto u were talkin abt malay..

The long journey

The other day a national daily carried a 1966 photograph taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson of a rocket-cone being taken by bicycle to the Thumba testing facility in Kerala by two people — one tending the cycle and the cone on foot, the other walking by his side. In the picture at least, the road leads to nowhere with a couple of palms standing mute sentinel to the efforts of a 20-year-old Free India trying to find its feet in the world of rocket technology.

The photograph — taken by a master — portrays in microcosm the past of this nation and also its future. In short, that rocket-cone being taken on the back of a bicycle was the precursor of today's geo-stationary satellite launch vehicles which the country is hawking around the world. It has taken all of 40 years for the Indian rocket-technician to reach this point in his quest for attainment, a point which compares favourably with countries in the West generally where such technology was first used in the 1940s during the Second World War.

What makes the Cartier-Bresson creation somewhat poignant is that, for a large swathe of the country, the bicycle continues to represent the basic norm of civil transport, a phenomenon that has been completely over-shadowed by the huge strides made by rocket-technology since those early days.

So while the business of economic development has taken time to percolate to the rural areas, the Indian mind has leapt forward to a point where it seems ready to take on the world.

As President Abdul Kalam told US President Bush on Thursday, "The India that you are visiting is in the midst of profound change. It is on a scale that has never been attempted before in a democratic framework... has lessons for the whole world because it is being attempted under the most challenging of conditions".

That Cartier-Bresson photograph tells the world exactly how much India has travelled the distance towards progress and modernity since 1947 yet keeping the moorings of Indian society intact.

Ranabir Ray Choudhury

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/03/04/stories/2006030400011000.htm

 

[Contrarian]

Yeh dude, its the same one, but could you find the foto itself?

 

[gpit]

Congratulations, dude. Especially the remote sensing stuff.

 

[Neo]

'Space ties with India, a win-win situation'
15 May, 2007

WASHINGTON: Senior officials of the NASA and scientists have told American law makers that there is a lot of merit in increasing international cooperation with leading space powers like India that will only see a win-win situation which benefits the United States and the partnering country.

At the same time at least one senior Republican law maker has voiced scepticism of going about with cooperation with such countries like China and Pakistan on the grounds that "tyrants and dictatorships" are actually a threat to the values of western civilisation.

At a recent Congressional hearing on Space programmes, Democratic Congressman Mark Udall asked Alan Stern, the Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate of the NASA, to assess international collaboration as a means to advance the priorities of National Academy's decadal surveys.

Stern said the US was ready to talk with any country who was on an acceptable list, who had a space programme and capability that could fly instruments or collaborate in missions.

"And I mean that to be a win-win -- certainly, Asian nations like the Japanese and the Indians, who are space powers, the European Space Agency, the individual European national space programmes, the Canadian Space Agency and others all come to mind," he said.

Vice Provost of Physical Science and Engineering at Cornell University Joseph Burns said within one year the world will have three foreign spacecraft in orbit around the moon -- Japan, China and India.

"And they will provide a very significant part of our new kinds of understanding of what the moon is all about and thereby aid our exploration programme. I think we need to carry that into other spheres," he said.

But senior Republican law maker Dana Rohrabacher of California argued that while he was all for cooperation between scientists from "free" and "democratic" countries, the United States would have to be "very, very cautious" in training scientists who will return to "dictatorships" and create a threat to western civilisation.

"Whether or not it's a bomb in Pakistan, I would hate to think that we had Pakistani scientists here and trained them how to make that bomb.

"I would hate to think that democratic countries like our own would use our science and so indiscriminately provide information that we provide the means for a dictatorship like China to set up a computer system that will spy on its own people and put believers in God in jail and be able to control the internet in their societies when they couldn't have done it without our help -- things such as that," Rohrabacher said.

"So I would just like to make sure that we balance off. Pure science isn't an end in and of itself. If it works with people who are tyrants and negative forces on this world, that science is not a good thing to transmit to those people," the senior Republican in the House Panel on Science and Technology said.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...a_a_win-win_situation/articleshow/2046402.cms

 

[kvLin]

It is no strange for Dana Rohrabacher to put political stuffs into anything anytime. He is an ultra-antiChina,throttlehold drum beater as well as chairman of Taiwan caucus. one of his notable snarl states that "China is more dangerous than Muslim". never expect a man in such position can make a decent definition of space science.

 

[Interceptor]

The Indians have also place the first Indian long before, they joined with Russian astronautes, the Indians are well established in the Space field.

Ill post the info on the first Indian in Space I believe it was was probably in the 10s or 80s.

 

[Interceptor]

There is a thread on this astronaute already,
https://defence.pk/forums/showthread.php?t=2615

 

[Neo]

The manned space program of the Indian Space Research Organisation has depended entirely upon Russia, and the first Indian cosmonaut became the 138th man into space, he spent eight days in space aboard Salyut 7. Launched along with two other Soviet cosmonauts aboard Soyuz T-11 on 02 April 1984, was then-Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma, a 35 year old Indian Air Force pilot. During the flight, Squadron Leader Sharma conducted multi-spectral photography of northern India in anticipation of the construction of hydroelectric power stations in the Himalayas.

Squadron Leader Sharma and his backup, Wing Commander Ravish Malhotra, also prepared an elaborate series of zero-gravity Yoga exercises which the former had practised aboard the Salyut 7. Retired with the rank of Wing Commander, Rakesh Sharma joined Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) as a test pilot. He was based at the Aircraft & Systems Testing Establishment (ASTE) in Bangalore and worked on the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft program. Current status - retired.

R, Sharma

 

[joey]

I'm against subsequent manned space mission, but I'm for for one manned space mission as it gives you insight into space medicines, which DIPAS a lab of DRDO has already worked upon, also the zero gravity centre, now boy o boy where do sign up?

DRDO to be part of ISRO’s first manned space mission
Sunday May 20 2007 11:22 IST
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BANGALORE: The life sciences laboratories under the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) may play a crucial role in India’s first manned space mission.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has agreed in principle to let these labs participate in the mission, Dr W Selvamurthy, DRDO Chief Controller (Research and Development), Life Sciences, told this website's newspaper.

He said DRDO had made a written request to ISRO to participate in the manned space mission which India is aiming to undertake between 2015-2020.

“Many of the technologies and life-supporting systems that we have developed for the armed forces are applicable to manned space missions after adaptation,” he said.

“ISRO deals with the ergonomic aspects of the space missions, but when it comes to manned space mission our technologies would help sustain the lives of the astronauts in space capsule.”

Selvamurthy said the nine labs which are conducting research through a Rs 64-crore annual budget, had convincingly met the needs of the armed forces as well as social obligations towards the civilian sector, and is now prepared to participate in the challenging first manned space mission.

The smart vest of Defence Bio-engineering and Electro-medical Laboratory (DEBEL) can enable physiological monitoring of the astronauts. This system has integrated sensors in the fabric which relay key health parameters back to a land-based control room.

An adapted version of the ergonomic layout of the futuristic infantry combat vehicle ‘ABHAY’ could be relevant to designing interiors of a manned space capsule to ensure a convenient working environment and work space for the astronauts, DRDO scientists said.

They said astronauts could use the submarine escape set developed by DEBEL consisting of a hydro suit and breathing apparatus, while the manned space capsule splashes down at sea on their return.

Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences’ (DIPAS) solid state- cooling garment for tank crews, could be adapted for astronauts to be used in emergencies such as the failure of the space capsule’s interior cooling system, scientists said.

They said Mysore-based DFRL can adapt pack rations with quality assurance methods, and preservation and packaging methods for long distance transportation of perishable products in space.

The DRDO’s nine life sciences laboratories

Defence Agricultural Research Laboratory (DARL), Pithoragarh;

Defence Bioengineering and Electromedical Lab (DEBEL), Bangalore

Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL), Mysore

Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), Delhi

Defence Institute of Psychological Research (DIPR), Delhi

Defence Research & Development Establishment (DRDE), Gwalior

Defence Research Laboratory (DRL), Tezpur

Field Research Laboratory (FRL), Leh; and

Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), Delhi

http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IE120070519110230&Topic=&Title=&Page=

 

[joey]

New space university....this is really needed.

http://www.iist.ac.in/

 

[Neo]

What is the best place in India to get Aeronautical education, Bengalore?

 

[joey]

no, it depends Neo, Are you talking of Aeronautical or Aerospace?
If Aeronautical the IIT's gives you and bachelors is best from there then you can get into job orinted work.

While in PHD, research et al, it is NAL/IISC/TIFR etc etc, NAL is highly respected instution, It is National Aerospace Limited, but i think they takes peoples after Phd or soemthing, one of my cousin is in NAL, he stood first in VIT in Bangalore and recieved prize from Kalam saab.

In Aeronautics you have NAL/HAL/ADA/ARDB these all are for research et al and involved in strategic projects.

Normally after Education people get into job oriented work and there are a lot of instutions giving you out works.

These days even HAL has seperate r&d workshop.

ARDB has some very nifty projects in its hand, you can check out the projects from drop down menu from their website..
http://www.drdo.com/boards/ardb/index.htm


Take for example the instutions working on LCA..



It is de-centralised, It depends , what course you want to pursue, bachelors / masters et al from where...hehe.

 

[Neo]

First Indian Satellite: Aryabhatta Satellite

Launch Date : April 19, 1975

Weight : 360 kg

Orbit : 619 x 562 km inclined at 50.7 deg

Lauched by : Soviet Intercosmos rocket.

Objectives : The objectives of this project were to indigenously design and fabricate a space-worthy satellite system and evaluate its perfromance in orbitr.

* to evolve the methodology of conducting a series of complex operations on the satellite in its orbital phasei.

* to set up ground-based receiving, transmitting and tracking systems

and to establish infrastructure for the fabrication of spacecraft systems.

The exercise also provided an opportunity to conduct investigations in the area of spcae sciences. The satellite carried three experiments, one each in X-Ray Astronomy, Solar Physics and Aeronomy.