AgniKul Cosmos - Updates & Activities

[Varoon2]

When will they place a payload into orbit?

In the News 18 report on the launch, the Agnikul founder said 9-12 months is probable.

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

This vehicle achievement is better than Skyroot simply due to the R&D involved. This engine is easily scalable. GoI should do an tender and let the companies develop relaunchable vehicles. Similar to Starship. Isro can also encourage them to build heavy vehicle if the engine can be clustered and scalable

 

[FalconSlayers]

This vehicle achievement is better than Skyroot simply due to the R&D involved. This engine is easily scalable. GoI should do an tender and let the companies develop relaunchable vehicles. Similar to Starship. Isro can also encourage them to build heavy vehicle if the engine can be clustered and scalable

Reusable is a lot more complex and given how the frontrunners themselves are struggling to build simple SSLV equivalents, VTVL vehicles are a far fetched dream for next 20 years from the private sector.

 

[mokoman]

Reusable is a lot more complex and given how the frontrunners themselves are struggling to build simple SSLV equivalents, VTVL vehicles are a far fetched dream for next 20 years from the private sector.

wasnt there a guy here who was building reusuable rockets , to be launched from barges or something .

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

Reusable is a lot more complex and given how the frontrunners themselves are struggling to build simple SSLV equivalents, VTVL vehicles are a far fetched dream for next 20 years from the private sector.

Everyone said the same of starship. Look where it is now. They achieved this feat in 10-12 years. Retiring scientists of ISRO who couldn’t try out their concepts due to lack of study approval or funds or time could work with startups for that. ISRO could work on Heavy Launch Vehicles, Actual science experiments, Human & Mars space programmes etc.

Agnikul engines are special in a sense, they can be printed easily & clustered. Dragon crew capsule was developed after NASA gave funding for both Boeing & SpaceX with expectations Boeing would succeed. ISRO could save valuable time by relegating such developments, launches to private companies. Leap of faith & money is required of course.

ISRO should quit itself from launching SSLV, PSLV by giving designs completely to private or let the users use their upcoming medium class launch vehicles, including lntegrstion and launch activities. We could concentrate on things which reallly are important

 

[FalconSlayers]

 

[FalconSlayers]

 

[karn]

While this is a remarkable achievement let us not forget that their semicryogenic engine uses electric motors to drive their fuel and oxidiser pumps . The kerlox engines that we are thinking about use staged or full flow combustion . These have much higher specific impulse than a battery /motor combo.
That said this is a smart business decision that will allow them to get to orbit much faster . And an electric pump driven engine is a lot easier to throttle which can help with reusability.

 

[FalconSlayers]