Oneweb might get preferential treatment (relaxed licensing) owing Airtel's stake in the company.Did oneweb, hughes comm private ltd get license to operate in India frm GOI?
Earlier gov asked starlink to not operate without license.
Govt has to put policy frame work for this emerging tech.Oneweb might get preferential treatment (relaxed licensing) owing Airtel's stake in the company.
NovemberAny news at all about PSLV C-54 with Oceansat-3? Seems to have been pushed to the background.
The Indian Space agency has 4 variants of rockets in its fleet and all of them will be heading for space over the next 5 months. Indicating that a busy mission schedule lay ahead for the Indian Space Research Organization, Chairman, Dr. S. Somanath outlined the launch line-up and the role of private industries in building ISRO's rockets, while speaking to WION.
"We follow the financial year - We are now getting ready for a launch of PSLV(Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) rocket, possibly November-end, where PSLV will be carrying 'OceanSat', 'BhutanSat' and four customer satellites on board. We also have to do the SSLV (Small Satellite Launch Vehicle) mission, after making the corrections for the failure we encountered last time" he told WION.
Further, he said that there was another launch of the heaviest rocket LVM3, that will be performed to loft 36 OneWeb satellites in Low Earth orbit, sometime around January or February 2023. In addition to this, there would be a launch of the GSLV Mk2 rocket (now known as GSLV), to orbit Next-gen 'NavIC' satellites that are meant for Navigation purposes for India. He also said that the agency would be attempting to perform India's maiden mission to study the sun - Aditya-L1, before the end of March 2023.
Effectively, this means that there would be 2 flights of PSLV rockets, and one flight each of the SSLV, GSLV, and LVM3, would take place by March 2023. It must also be noted that each satellite that ISRO builds for India is also counted as a mission in itself.
Queried about the possibility of the GSLV rockets being manufactured by the Indian private industry, Somanath said that a manufacturing contract for five PSLV rockets had been given to the Indian industry (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited-Larsen & Toubro), on an experimental basis.
"The PSLV is an experiment to see if the manufacturing base in the country can bring out a PSLV on their own, operate on their own, and ramp up production demand beyond the five units. This five is only a test case in which ISRO will hand-hold industry to understand the technology and take the whole activity forward", he said.
Beyond the five PSLV rockets, the industry can fund itself, build more PSLVs, operate more, and offer them commercially, it depends on the industry's capability. However, in terms of the GSLV(GSLV Mk2) rocket, Somanath said that ISRO didn't consider it a commercial launcher and that the rocket could be retired after 10 more flights.
As expected, it is the LVM3 or GSLV Mk3 that ISRO pins most of its hope on. Somanath said that ISRO saw higher commercial potential in LVM3 and that talks are underway with industries. He said that ISRO's commercial arm NewSpace India Limited would industrialize it sooner.
Expect oceansat launch on 26 November.Got tricked by title, sorry LOL.
Vikram-S/?? - 18-19 November 2022 (Suborbital)Per news:
PSLV C54/Oceansat-3 - late November 2022
SSLV D2/EOSXX - November/December 2022
LVM3 M3/OneWeb SATs x 36 - January/February 2023
PSLV C56/Aditya L1 - February 2023
GSLV Mk II F12/NVS01 - No later than March 2023
Total 5 more launches planned for this fiscal apart from 2 abort tests for safety systems in human spaceflight project.
Vikram-1 in 3rd quarter of 2023Vikram-S/?? - 18-19 November 2022 (Suborbital)
PSLV C54/Oceansat-3 - 26 November 2022
SSLV D2/EOSXX - December 2022
Agnibaan/?? - December 2022 (Suborbital)
LVM3 M3/OneWeb SATs x 36 - February/Marçh 2023
PSLV C56/Aditya L1 - February 2023
GSLV Mk II F12/NVS01 - No later than March 2023
That is aart from 2 abort tests for safety systems in human spaceflight project.
@TopWatcher was asking about Aditya.
Talking about this working year only.Vikram-1 in 3rd quarter of 2023
only 1 abort test before March 2023, 2nd abort test will be after CY-3 launchVikram-S/?? - 18-19 November 2022 (Suborbital)
PSLV C54/Oceansat-3 - 26 November 2022
SSLV D2/EOSXX - December 2022
Agnibaan/?? - December 2022 (Suborbital)
LVM3 M3/OneWeb SATs x 36 - February/Marçh 2023
PSLV C56/Aditya L1 - February 2023
GSLV Mk II F12/NVS01 - No later than March 2023
That is aart from 2 abort tests for safety systems in human spaceflight project.
@TopWatcher was asking about Aditya.
Their is a fair reason for that(though i am not skeptic) isro tends to shift goal post in term of term "end of year". Sometimes it means calander year sometimes it means financial year. This is kind of funny game^
There are some sceptics on another forum , who strongly feel that this PSLV C-54 was the absolute last mission of calendar year 2022. Are they right? ISRO chairman S. Somanath did state that there will be another launch during this year itself, meaning before Dec 31/2022. What accounts for the discrepancy in views?
One PSLV flight i think align in December ?Suborbital flight for Agnibaan rocket of AgniKul Cosmos and second orbital launch of SSLV (D2), both have been slated for January 2023.
No further space launches from India this year.