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[Indx TechStyle]

Lots of chatter happening about inclusion of lander on Mars mission.
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It will be a miracle if India lands a rover on Mars even in 2030.
Mars is a far larger body with much higher gravity than Moon and thrusters required to slow down rover's descent will be much bigger (we just made retro-thrusters for Chandrayaan-2 for first time and we can see how successful we were). Such a large spacecraft assembly would require a hevay-class rocket; HLV no less than Delta-IV heavy or CZ-5.
Above all of it, Mars has an atmosphere. ISRO needs to have extensive knowledge of Martian gases and make a heat shield for descent (will be done by India for first time).

And finally, we already have Chandrayaan-3, Indo-Japanese lunar mission, Chandrayaan-4 Shukrayaan, 4-5 flights Gaganyaan, an Indian space telescope in orbit, a heavy launcher and a space station module planned for this decade. I'm wondering if how much of these goals can be accomplished in meantime. As far as official announcements are concerned, Mangalyaan-2 will just be a larger orbiter.

 

[Mantospace]

It will be a miracle if India lands a rover on Mars even in 2030.
Mars is a far larger body with much higher gravity than Moon and thrusters required to slow down rover's descent will be much bigger (we just made retro-thrusters for Chandrayaan-2 for first time and we can see how successful we were). Such a large spacecraft assembly would require a hevay-class rocket; HLV no less than Delta-IV heavy or CZ-5.
Above all of it, Mars has an atmosphere. ISRO needs to have extensive knowledge of Martian gases and make a heat shield for descent (will be done by India for first time).

And finally, we already have Chandrayaan-3, Indo-Japanese lunar mission, Chandrayaan-4 Shukrayaan, 4-5 flights Gaganyaan, an Indian space telescope in orbit, a heavy launcher and a space station module planned for this decade. I'm wondering if how much of these goals can be accomplished in meantime. As far as official announcements are concerned, Mangalyaan-2 will just be a larger orbiter.

May be its true, might be isro change course after seeing china.

 

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It will be a miracle if India lands a rover on Mars even in 2030.
Mars is a far larger body with much higher gravity t
announcements are concerned, Mangalyaan-2 will just be a larger orbiter.

Can we at least look forward to launches of RISAT-1A and Oceansat-3, and perhaps the first launch of the SSLV, before the end of the year?

 

[Indx TechStyle]

May be its true, might be isro change course after seeing china.

No, it anything in response to China doesn't mean anything. As I have explained, it is much easier said that done. It needs a lot of time. Otherwise ISRO would have been changing its course just by "seing" NASA also.

Can we at least look forward to launches of RISAT-1A and Oceansat-3, and perhaps the first launch of the SSLV, before the end of the year?

All the 3 are scheduled for this year, one of them might slip January-February of 2022 though.

 

[mandestiny]

No, it anything in response to China doesn't mean anything. As I have explained, it is much easier said that done. It needs a lot of time. Otherwise ISRO would have been changing its course just by "seing" NASA also.
All the 3 are scheduled for this year, one of them might slip January-February of 2022 though.

Well that's a old way of ISRO, planning and realization of ISRO projects are different thing.

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Well that's a old way of ISRO, planning and realization of ISRO projects are different thing.

Can't expect anything better either. Most of Indian suppliers have factories EU and Americas used to have around WW2.

 

[mandestiny]

Can't expect anything better either. Most of Indian suppliers have factories EU and Americas used to have around WW2.

Right said, but things moving.

 

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[Photon]

Big cargo for ISRO wind tunnel project from Mumbai to kerala. The cargo come from mubai port to kollam port by ship and now by moving road from kollam to Trivandrum VSSC.

 

[mandestiny]

Big cargo for ISRO wind tunnel project from Mumbai to kerala. The cargo come from mubai port to kollam port by ship and now by moving road from kollam to Trivandrum VSSC.

Shouldn't there be a airport strip in ISRO area , so that any cargo can move by air.

By road, wont be a security issue ?

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Shouldn't there be a airport strip in ISRO area , so that any cargo can move by air.

By road, wont be a security issue ?

It's not possible or economically unviable even if possible to airlift things with span exceeding 5 meters in most cases. Cost is too high that it doesn't justify any kind of security.

Not just ISRO, large modules are always transported through sea and road in every industry.

 

[Photon]

Shouldn't there be a airport strip in ISRO area , so that any cargo can move by air.

By road, wont be a security issue ?

Last time they bring a boiler completely by road and it took almost one year to reach kerala but this time they used recently inaugurated kollam port and this is the first heavy cargo handled by this tiny kerala port, probably in future ISRO and Brahmose will be the biggest user of this port, BARC also.navy also sometimes deployed small ships here

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Last time they bring a boiler completely by road and it took almost one year to reach kerala but this time they used recently inaugurated kollam port and this is the first heavy cargo handled by this tiny kerala port, probably in future ISRO and Brahmose will be the biggest user of this port, BARC also.navy also sometimes deployed small ships here

We once built a boiler and heat exchangers set in Gujarat and it took us bloody 8 months to reach Odisha. Throughout the entire route, we jammed routes, we had to remove electrical cables and poles in many areas.

At a place when a flyover bridge was not high enough for the heat exchangers loaded on our truck, we had to take permission of authorities to dig up road to cross that.

 

[mandestiny]

We once built a boiler and heat exchangers set in Gujarat and it took us bloody 8 months to reach Odisha. Throughout the entire route, we jammed routes, we had to remove electrical cables and poles in many areas.

At a place when a flyover bridge was not high enough for the heat exchangers loaded on our truck, we had to take permission of authorities to dig up road to cross that.

Better to have a dedicated road for this type of transportation.

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Better to have a dedicated road for this type of transportation.

Such kind of items are rare. You can't connect entire nation with such kind of roads. We are building freight capacity although.

 

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[mandestiny]

Such kind of items are rare. You can't connect entire nation with such kind of roads. We are building freight capacity although.

I means to say define a route.

 

[Indx TechStyle]

I means to say define a route.

Yes, defining dedicated routes too is costlier than the sector itself. We have a large network for highway for all to use.

 

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[sorcerer]

Isro tests Gaganyaan service module propulsion system | India News - Times of India

BENGALURU: As part of its preparations for the ambitious India’s first human spaceflight mission (Gaganyaan), the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Saturday said it successfully conducted a hot test of the system demonstration model (SDM) of the service module propulsion system.

Isro tests Gaganyaan service module propulsion system | India News - Times of India

India News: As part of its preparations for the ambitious India’s first human spaceflight mission (Gaganyaan), the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Sa

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