Isro focuses on vertical landing capability
AHMEDABAD: India is aspiring to move a notch up in the reusable launch system development programme with rockets that will have Vertical take-off and Vertical Landing capabilities.
Distinguished Isro professor and founding director of Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology Dr B N Suresh gave a peek into the ADMIRE test vehicle, that will have supersonic retro propulsion, special retractable landing legs which will in fact act as steerable grid fins, to guide the rocket back to its launch pad. The launch vehicle emulates technology that is embedded in US-based SpaceX's Grasshopper and Falcon 9 rockets.
"A test and landing site is being developed by Isro for this purpose," Suresh revealed at the three-day anniversary general meeting of Indian National Science Academy at its first symposium at Physical Research Laboratory on Wednesday.
Suresh was presenting Isro's new technology development on behalf of Isro chairman Dr K Sivan who could not attend the session for an urgent cabinet meeting in New Delhi.
Former Isro chairman Padma shri A S Kiran Kumar said how Astrosat India's first dedicated multi-wavelength space observatory's performance in the far ultraviolet wavelengths has the world's best space angular resolution of 2 arc seconds which is better than the next best which has 6 arc seconds.
On the human space flight programme, Kumar said, "Almost one year before the actual launch of human space flight mission, probable astronauts may be from the Indian Air Force, but it all depends on the selection process." The human space flight mission, following PM Narendra Modi's August 15 speech is timed for 2022, the 75th anniversary of Indian Independence.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...l-landing-capability/articleshow/67262964.cms
AHMEDABAD: India is aspiring to move a notch up in the reusable launch system development programme with rockets that will have Vertical take-off and Vertical Landing capabilities.
Distinguished Isro professor and founding director of Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology Dr B N Suresh gave a peek into the ADMIRE test vehicle, that will have supersonic retro propulsion, special retractable landing legs which will in fact act as steerable grid fins, to guide the rocket back to its launch pad. The launch vehicle emulates technology that is embedded in US-based SpaceX's Grasshopper and Falcon 9 rockets.
"A test and landing site is being developed by Isro for this purpose," Suresh revealed at the three-day anniversary general meeting of Indian National Science Academy at its first symposium at Physical Research Laboratory on Wednesday.
Suresh was presenting Isro's new technology development on behalf of Isro chairman Dr K Sivan who could not attend the session for an urgent cabinet meeting in New Delhi.
Former Isro chairman Padma shri A S Kiran Kumar said how Astrosat India's first dedicated multi-wavelength space observatory's performance in the far ultraviolet wavelengths has the world's best space angular resolution of 2 arc seconds which is better than the next best which has 6 arc seconds.
On the human space flight programme, Kumar said, "Almost one year before the actual launch of human space flight mission, probable astronauts may be from the Indian Air Force, but it all depends on the selection process." The human space flight mission, following PM Narendra Modi's August 15 speech is timed for 2022, the 75th anniversary of Indian Independence.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...l-landing-capability/articleshow/67262964.cms
