SwAggeR
SENIOR MEMBER
- Joined
- Jan 4, 2013
- Messages
- 2,991
- Reaction score
- -13
- Country
- Location
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has lined up 50 missions in the next five years. To support these launches, the organisation is planning to set up a ‘high-tech’ third launch pad at Sriharikota space station, near Chennai, before 2016.
“We require one more launch pad to carry heavy payloads and it would happen here in the two years from now,” said Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan.
The launch pad will mainly support Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV Mk-III), which will be carrying heavier satellites.
Speaking to reporters after the successful launch of GSLV-D5 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here, K Radhakrishnan said the Centre had given its nod to set up an assembly centre and a study was getting ready on the same.
Officials added the assembling facility and launch pad would come up in a 3-sq km area, which was bigger than the measurement of the existing two launch pads, and would require Rs 500-crore investment.
The new complex would provide complete support for the vehicle assembly, fuelling, checkout and launch operations. Besides, it would have facilities for launching rockets meant for studying the earth’s atmosphere.
The complex would also have mobile pedestals, umbilical towers, emergency exits, ground escape system, crew ingress and egress systems, safety bunkers, material handling equipment among others.
Isro plans 3rd launch pad at Sriharikota | Business Standard
HAL supplied cryogenic fuel tanks for GSLV-D5 - The Hindu
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) supplied the cryogenic fuel tanks and the cryo stage structures that formed part of the GSLV-D5, which was successfully launched on Sunday, the public enterprise has said.
HAL integrated and provided the four small ‘L40’ booster rockets strapped on to the first stage. L40 denotes the 40 tonnes of liquid fuel they carry.
It also provided the basic structure of the communication satellite GSAT-14, an assembly of composite and metallic honeycomb sandwich panels with a composite cylinder. HAL routinely supplies these pieces of hardware for the Indian Space Research Organisation’s launch vehicle as well as spacecraft programmes.
Congratulating the ISRO on the successful launch that was significant for its indigenously built cryogenic stage, HAL Chairman R.K.Tyagi in a statement: “HAL’s Aerospace Division contributed in a significant way to the launch by supplying 13 types of riveted structural assemblies, seven types of welded propellant tankages, which include the cryogenic liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen tanks and cryogenic stage structures of the GSLV-D5.”
It said the growing HAL-ISRO partnership since the inception of the space programme was poised for bigger ties. For the Mars Orbiter Mission of November last year, HAL supplied the spacecraft’s seven types of riveted structural assemblies and four types of welded fuel tankages.
“We require one more launch pad to carry heavy payloads and it would happen here in the two years from now,” said Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan.
The launch pad will mainly support Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV Mk-III), which will be carrying heavier satellites.
Speaking to reporters after the successful launch of GSLV-D5 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here, K Radhakrishnan said the Centre had given its nod to set up an assembly centre and a study was getting ready on the same.
Officials added the assembling facility and launch pad would come up in a 3-sq km area, which was bigger than the measurement of the existing two launch pads, and would require Rs 500-crore investment.
The new complex would provide complete support for the vehicle assembly, fuelling, checkout and launch operations. Besides, it would have facilities for launching rockets meant for studying the earth’s atmosphere.
The complex would also have mobile pedestals, umbilical towers, emergency exits, ground escape system, crew ingress and egress systems, safety bunkers, material handling equipment among others.
Isro plans 3rd launch pad at Sriharikota | Business Standard
HAL supplied cryogenic fuel tanks for GSLV-D5 - The Hindu
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) supplied the cryogenic fuel tanks and the cryo stage structures that formed part of the GSLV-D5, which was successfully launched on Sunday, the public enterprise has said.
HAL integrated and provided the four small ‘L40’ booster rockets strapped on to the first stage. L40 denotes the 40 tonnes of liquid fuel they carry.
It also provided the basic structure of the communication satellite GSAT-14, an assembly of composite and metallic honeycomb sandwich panels with a composite cylinder. HAL routinely supplies these pieces of hardware for the Indian Space Research Organisation’s launch vehicle as well as spacecraft programmes.
Congratulating the ISRO on the successful launch that was significant for its indigenously built cryogenic stage, HAL Chairman R.K.Tyagi in a statement: “HAL’s Aerospace Division contributed in a significant way to the launch by supplying 13 types of riveted structural assemblies, seven types of welded propellant tankages, which include the cryogenic liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen tanks and cryogenic stage structures of the GSLV-D5.”
It said the growing HAL-ISRO partnership since the inception of the space programme was poised for bigger ties. For the Mars Orbiter Mission of November last year, HAL supplied the spacecraft’s seven types of riveted structural assemblies and four types of welded fuel tankages.
