Vital gear for rocket launches handed over to ISRO

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Vital gear for rocket launches handed over to ISRO

Chennai, April. 20 (PTI): The RH-560M Motorcase, a vital piece of equipment that can help cut the amount of fuel needed to launch rockets, was handed over to the Indian space agency here today.

The Motorcase was handed over to B N Suresh, Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) of the Indian Space Research Organisation, by city-based Ramakrishna Engineering Company.

Suresh later told a press conference that VSSC is trying to configure low-cost effective technology for air breathing propulsion.

"The RH-560M enhances the capability of the launch. It can save almost the whole amount of fuel...as of now only the US has it. We will be the second country to go in for it," he said.

ISRO plans to test the air breathing propulsion technology by January or February next year, he said.

The April 23 commercial launch of the Italian satellite Agile from Sriharikota by ISRO, the first such launch from India, would be a "significant" event, Suresh said.

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/002200704201860.htm

 

[joey]

This is great!

From ISRO yearbook,

Technologies for Advanced Space Transportation
During the year activities towards the first flight of a Dual Mode Ramjet Flight Test Demonstrator (DMRJ-FTD) has made substantial progress. The static test of RH-560 sounding rocket solid propellant motor for DMRJ-FTD has been conducted qualifying the pyrogen ignitor. Wind tunnel models have been realised and tested up to Mach-4 and Mach-7. Detailed mission Monte-Carlo analysis has been carried out to obtain required dwell time within the Mach number – dynamic pressure window.

Supersonic Combustion Test using gaseous hydrogen and kerosene as fuels have continued during the year. Air hydrogen combustion modeling has been incorporated in the in-house computational fluid dynamics software “PARAS-3D” as a major step towards simulation of full SCRAMJET engine under flight conditions.

Aerodynamics characterisation, mission design and simulation, structural design, subsystem definitions and Thermal Protection System (TPS) design for reusable launch vehicle technology demonstration have been carried out during the year.

http://www.isro.org/rep2007/Space Transporation.htm


hope, they flies it within a year! Scramjet!!