ISRO General News and Updates

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ISRO to test multiple burn fuel stage/engine on December 16

Chennai: The Indian space agency on Wednesday will be testing its ability to restart the fourth-stage engine of its rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on shutting it down after putting into orbit six Singaporean satellites.

Technically speaking, India will be testing its multiple burn fuel stage/rocket engine for the first time.

"The restart and shut off of the fourth stage engine is done as a first step towards launching multiple satellites but in different orbits," a senior official of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), speaking on the condition of anonymity, told IANS.

Launching of multiple satellites with a single rocket is nothing new for ISRO and it has been doing that for several years. The challenge is however to launch several satellites at different orbits with one rocket and this is what ISRO will be testing out after PSLV ejects out six Singaporean satellites on Wednesday.

The PSLV rocket is a four stage/engine rocket powered by solid and liquid fuel alternatively.

"Restarting a rocket engine soon after it is shut off is a critical technology that has to be mastered. Once a rocket engine is activated, then the heat generated is very high. The trick is to cool it down in the space and to restart it at a short gap," an industry expert told IANS.

"This is entirely different from switching on and off the communication satellite's engines in the space. The interval between two restarts of a communication satellite engine will be in days. But in the case of restarting a rocket engine, the time gap will be in hours," the expert added.

"By that time the rocket's engine has to be cooled down. This part of the experiment is very critical," he explained.

On Wednesday, ISRO's PSLV rocket will blast off from the first launch pad at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, around 80 km from here, with the six Singaporean satellites. All the satellites will be put into orbit around 21 minutes into the flight at an altitude of 550 km.

After that the rocket's fourth stage will be shut down.

"It will be coasting after that," an ISRO official told IANS.

Around 46 minutes after the launch of the sixth satellite, the fourth stage will be restarted when it is in a lower altitude of 523.9 km.

The engine will be in operational for four seconds and would go up to an altitude of 524 km before the stage is cut-off.

Meanwhile ISRO officials told the countdown for the December 16 evening launch of PSLV rocket is progressing smoothly.

On December 16, ISRO will be flying the 'core alone' variant of the PSLV rocket. The rocket will not have the strap on boosters, its standard feature

The successful launch of the six Singaporean satellites will take ISRO's total flights of foreign satellites to 57.

Out of the six satellites, the 400 kg earth observation satellite called TeLEOS-1 is the main passenger for the PSLV rocket and hence the mission is called TeLEOS mission by ISRO.

TeLEOS-1 is Singapore's first commercial earth observation satellite designed and developed by ST Electronics.

The other five co-passenger satellites are VELOX-C1 (123 kg), VELOX-II (13 kg), Kent Ridge-1 (78 kg), Galassia (3.4 kg) and Athenoxat-1.

The December 16 mission will be the last rocket launch mission for ISRO in 2015.

So far in 2015, ISRO has launched 14 satellites (three Indian and 11 foreign) from its rocket port in Sriharikota. Thirteen satellites were launched with PSLV rocket and one communication satellite - GSAT-6-with geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV).

Last month India also launched its communication satellite GSAT-15 using the Ariane rocket of the European space agency which takes the total number of satellite launches in 2015 to 21 (17 foreign, four Indian).

http://zeenews.india.com/news/space...fuel-stage/engine-on-december-16_1834926.html

 

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ISRO's PSLV-C29 rocket successfully launches six Singapore satellites into their orbits

Sriharikota: ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle ( PSLV-C29) blasted off from the first launch pad at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, around 80 km from here, with six Singaporean satellites at 6:00 pm.


All the satellites have been successfully put into orbit around at an altitude of 550 km. After that the rocket's fourth stage will be shut down. Around 46 minutes after the launch of the sixth satellite, the fourth stage will be restarted when it is in a lower altitude of 523.9 km. The engine will be in operational for four seconds and would go up to an altitude of 524 km before the stage is cut-off. The PSLV rocket is a four stage/ engine rocket powered by solid and liquid fuel alternatively. Out of the six satellites, the 400 kg earth observation satellite called TeLEOS-1 is the main passenger for the PSLV rocket and hence the mission is called TeLEOS mission by ISRO. TeLEOS-1 is Singapore's first commercial earth observation satellite designed and developed by ST Electronics. The other five co-passenger satellites are VELOX-C1 (123 kg), VELOX-II (13 kg), Kent Ridge-1 (78 kg), Galassia (3.4 kg) and Athenoxat-1. These satellites would help the city-state gather information on disaster monitoring and urban planning. Today's mission is last rocket launch mission for ISRO in 2015.

ISRO's PSLV-C29 rocket successfully launches six Singapore satellites into their orbits

 

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What happened to multiple burn?

 

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What happened to multiple burn?

Isro Successfully Tests Multiple Burn PSLV Engine on Wednesday

 

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Nearly 30 satellite launch orders at hand for ISRO's Antrix

 

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ISRO, NASA to Engage in Chilika Lake for India's First Hyperspectral Study

 

[Kshatriya87]

I have a doubt here. Is the spacex program cheaper than ISRO? They charge $60 million per satellite & claim to be the cheapest in the world. I do not know the price of ISRO.

 

[archie]

I have a doubt here. Is the spacex program cheaper than ISRO? They charge $60 million per satellite & claim to be the cheapest in the world. I do not know the price of ISRO.

I am guessing the cost will be something like this

LEO orbit per kg cost @ a particular payload mass
Polar orbit per kg cost @ a particular payload mass
and geo stationary per kg cost @ a particular payload mass

Space X have a much bigger launcher 4850Kg to GTO.. ISRO does not have a launcher in that size yet..

GSLV Mk3 would be an equivalent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_orbital_launch_systems

 

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2016 Set to Lift ISRO Towards Heavy Missions

GSAT 11 and GSLV-Mark III are among heavy missions
The year 2016 is set to see the national space
programme slowly shift gears towards large satellites, a heavy-lift launcher and improved Earth observation capabilities.
The ten-odd planned missions will be mostly
bread-and-butter types with no major explorations before Chandrayaan-2, now slated for 2017.
The Space agency will complete on priority the seven-satellite regional navigation loop, IRNSS, in the first three months, according to Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar.
On the target later in the year is GSAT-11, which would be the heaviest Indian satellite at four to five tonnes and packing many more transponders than normal; the biggest so far was about 3.1 tonnes. Also planned to be tested is a matching launcher to lift spacecraft like it to space: the GSLV-Mark III heavy-lifter with a limited version satellite, Mr. Kumar told The Hindu .

Earth Observation

After a gap of about three years, a host of functional Earth observation (EO or remote-sensing) satellites is lined up. They include new ones with improved views of Earth as well as those to replace older ones that are in orbit.

Of these Cartosat-2C would sharpen the present
imagery resolution from 0.8 metres to 0.6 metres and is aimed for the first half.

A new EO version called Scatsat is planned, besides continuity missions Resourcesat-2A, Oceansat-3 series; and Insat-3DR (on a GSLV), a replacement Met sat.
The old Cartosat-1 series satellites would be
replaced. The ISRO was working on the approved ones and taken up the new ones at
various forums for clearances.
About the navigation constellation IRNSS, Mr. Kumar said, “Immediately over the next three months we will launch the three navigational
satellites IRNSS-1E, 1F and 1G. They come up consecutively in January, February and March.
[The older four, A to D, are in orbit.].”

“IRNSS is already being used to some extent. It
will take about three months to fully demonstrate its working. At the same time we are working on the development of receivers. A
large number of them have been already realised, some with the ISRO design and some with industry design and both to be made by industry.”

The year 2015, he said, was “a reasonably good year in all domains” with marginally more launches than the previous year. Over the next two years, the ISRO planned to do eight to nine missions a year with six PSLV and two GSLV launches. Additionally there could be at least one fully commercial PSLV launch meant only for foreign satellites; this year, it did two fully commercial launches - in July and December.
Heavier the communication satellites, GSAT-17 and 18 were planned to be flown separately on procured Arianespace launchers.

Source>>

 

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ISRO's RLV-TD mission likely to be delayed to April
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Technical snags have forced the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to put off the first test on a scaled-down prototype of India’s futuristic space shuttle.

Sources said on Sunday that the Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD), under development at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) here at Thumba, developed a minor leak during a test, forcing the ISRO to postpone the mission. The ambitious RLV-TD, the first small step to building a ‘space shuttle’ which can return to earth after accomplishing space missions, is likely to be delayed up to April 2016.

ISRO had originally planned a mid-2015 launch for the RLV-TD. It had later been postponed to January 2016.

VSSC Director Dr K Sivan said that some of the components had to be re-assembled. ‘’If things go as planned, we can launch the mission in the first week of February. Otherwise, the test will be conducted in the first week of April,’’ he said.

ISRO has three missions lined up for January and March, which is another reason why the RLV-TD could be delayed up to April. ISRO plans to launch the three remaining IRNSS satellites - which will complete the seven-satellite Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System - by March 31. The first of the three is to be launched on January 20, and the remaining two in March using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).

“The missions will be launched from the first launch pad, which is also to be used for the RLV-TD,’’ Sivan said.

The RLV-TD consists of a winged space plane-like part rigged atop a booster rocket. The rocket will go up to a height of 70 km and release the space plane portion which will glide down to earth.

In the first test, the space plane will glide into a landing in the Bay of Bengal. RLV-TD will be the first of a series of tests planned by ISRO before venturing to build the actual vehicle. A reusable launch vehicle will cut mission costs considerably for ISRO.

 

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ISRO to have one launch
mission per month on
average

Madurai : Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre scientist Ingersoll has said that the organisation will be having one launch mission every month on an average.

Speaking at the seminar in the Madurai Yadava College on Sunday, he said that the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System when fully operationalised, will revolutionise the GPS services apart from giving accurate information for navigation purposes.

 

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Reusable launch vehicle trial in 2016, says ISRO chairman

The ISRO uses multi-stage rockets for satellite launch, but the reusable vehicle will be a single-stage rocket to start with.

India’s reusable launch vehicle being developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is slated for trials in 2016 and will help reduce the cost of access to space in the long run, said ISRO Chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar.

He said here on Monday that the project was still in the experimental stage and the demonstration vehicle will have a range of 100 km, though eventually it will be like a space shuttle. The ISRO uses multi-stage rockets for satellite launch, but the reusable vehicle will be a single-stage rocket to start with. The single-stage rocket will have a solid propellant stored in casing. For a reusable vehicle, the casings have to be re-used or rebuilt and its evolution will hinge on cost benefits, said the ISRO chairman.

“We still have a long way to go and have taken baby steps in this direction,” said Mr. Kumar.

He was delivering the golden jubilee endowment lecture of the JSS Mahavidyapeetha on ‘Space technology and societal applications’.

Elaborating on the use of space technology for civilian applications, Mr. Kumar said that ISRO, with civil aviation authorities, had developed a Geo Augmented Navigation System under the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), which will help civilian aircraft to make en-route planning and enhance safety.

The IRNSS will comprise a constellation of seven satellites for providing positioning, navigation and timing services over India region, with coverage of 1,500 km beyond Indian territory. Other countries too have embarked on such a mission and at present, four satellites are in orbit and the full constellation will be in place in 2016, said Mr. Kumar.

The geo-tagging of 1.5 lakh post offices in the country will be completed by 2016 under the post office inventory project. Under the project, data of the post offices will be available on a mobile app showing the nearest facility and distance to it.

 

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Mount Abu Infrared Observatory(MIRO):
Unveiling the Universe

The 1.2 m InfraRed Telescope at Mount Abu is the first major facility in India specifically designed for ground based infrared observations of celestial objects. This Infrared Observatory is situated at an altitude of 1680 meters above mean sea level on top of the Gurushikhar peak of Aravali range, in Mount Abu, a hill resort in Rajasthan, India. The 1.2m telescope was installed in the early '90s by the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad and funded by the Department of Space, Government of India. Apart from 1.2m Cassegrain f/13 telescope, optimised for infrared and optical observations it houses 0.5m CDK telescope for variability studies. The telescope has a host of back-end instruments, such as 1kx1k & 2kx2k CCDs, Near Infrared Spectrographs (NICMOS-III and NICS), optical polarimeter, PARAS- spectrograph for radial velocity measurements (for exo-planet hunting program) and Fabry-Perot spectrograph. MIRO has its own aluminisation plant for mirror coating, liquid Nitrogen plant to supply liquefied nitrogen to cool astronomical detectors and a small mechanical workshop. The observatory campus also houses an atmospheric and space science laboratory to perform studies related to aerosols and other atmospheric physics experiments.

Brief History

The idea of setting up an optical and IR observatory and initiating the infrared and optical astronomy programme was put forth by PRL during the 1970s. After a suitable astronomical site survey of several locations, Gurushikhar, the highest peak of Aravali range in Mt Abu, Rajasthan, was found most appropriate due to its low water vapour, more than 220 observable nights with reasonably good seeing and the site's vicinity to PRL (240 kms). The responsibility of developing the site, including the construction of the access road, telescope building and other facilities, telescope mount and dome, etc., was given to ISRO. The whole observatory was designed and developed indigenously. The design of telescope drives, mount and other support systems, including telescope control, was taken up by the SHAR Centre which also supervised the fabrication work at Chennai. The mirror fabrication, polishing and other optics was the responsibility of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. All the back-end instruments, one of the most important components of the astronomical observations, were developed in parallel with the setting up of the observatory. It may be worth noting that some of those initial instruments are still functioning and competing with new generation instruments.

The “first Light” image of star alpha Arietis was acquired with the 1.2 m telescope on November 19, 1994 establishing excellent quality of its optics. The observatory started regular operation immediately with the lunar occultation study of IRC-10557 (v Aquarii) on December 7, 1994. Over the years, it has catered to the observational requirements of the scientific programs of the Astronomy and Astrophysics faculty. The research programs cover a wide range of objects and events, such as star formation, stellar structure and evolution, comets, Novae and binary systems, supernovae, lunar occultation studies and starburst and active galactic nuclei. The techniques used are imaging photometry, spectroscopy and polarimetry.

Astronomical data obtained from the observations made from the MIRO have resulted in more than 150 peer reviewed research publications as of now. This is a significant achievement considering rather modest astronomical facilities at the MIRO. The Observatory is in the process of acquiring a larger, 2.5 m telescope which is supposed to give a big boost to its scientific programmes.

Recent results from the observations made at MIRO

Study of nearest and brightest supernova in M 82: Supernova 2014Jwas the brightest and closest Type 1a in the last four decades. Supernova is an explosive event, the brightness of which surpasses the whole galaxy. It can happen when either a massive star runs out of fuel or when a compact object accretesa a large amount of mass from surroundings leading to thermonuclear explosion. SN2014J was studied extensively from Mount Abu both spectroscopically and photometrically. Given its proximity, it offered the best opportunity to date to study a thermonuclear supernova (SN) over a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Optical/IR observations of the rising light curve show that SN 2014J was a spectroscopically normal Type Ia supernova (SN Ia), albeit exhibiting high-velocity features in its spectrum and heavily reddened by the dust in the host galaxy. Seventeen optical and 23 NIR spectra were obtained from 10 days before (-10 d) to 10 days after (+10 d) the time of maximum B-band brightness. Carbon is not detected in the optical spectra, but C I 1.0693 micron in the NIR spectra is identified. The spectra of SN 2014J show that it is a normal SN Ia, but many parameters are near the boundaries between normal and high-velocity subclasses.

Identification and classification of an astronomical source as LBL blazar: Blazars, a sub-class of active galactic nuclei, are one of the brightest sources in the universe. These are highly variable and have variable optical polarisation. One such source, CGRaBS J0211+1050 was detected by space borne observatory Fermi in Gamma-ray. Polarimetric observations carried out at Mt. Abu Observatory detected high and variable optical polarisation in this source and classified it as a possible low energy peaked blazar (LBL). It was later confirmed as an LBL using multi-wavelength data from Mt. Abu and other facilities. The study led to the estimation of the size of the optical emission region, mass of the black hole and underlying magnetic field in the source.

Several other interesting and important results have been obtained on a large number of astronomical sources using the observations from MIRO. A new programme of detecting and characterising planets in the stellar systems beyond our solar system is going on using radial velocity measurement technique. The 1.2 m telescope is in very good health to serve the community for many more years to come. In addition to 1.2 m telescope, 0.5 m CDK telescope also has started functioning in automated mode which is an essential requirement for the continuous monitoring of variable sources, such a blazars. The upcoming new 2.5 m telescope will further strengthen the capability of the MIRO. With the successful commissioning of all the payloads onboard ASTROSAT, Indian community can now boast of a wonderful multi-wavelength platform, right from radio (GMRT and ORT of TIFR) to high energy gamma-rays (HAGAR of TIFR and TACTIC of BARC) to explore the enigmatic universe.

MIRO at Guru Shikhar

Open the link given for watching a video documentary on MIRO

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Mount Abu Infrared Observatory(MIRO):
Unveiling the Universe

The 1.2 m InfraRed Telescope at Mount Abu is the first major facility in India specifically designed for ground based infrared observations of celestial objects. This Infrared Observatory is situated at an altitude of 1680 meters above mean sea level on top of the Gurushikhar peak of Aravali range, in Mount Abu, a hill resort in Rajasthan, India. The 1.2m telescope was installed in the early '90s by the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad and funded by the Department of Space, Government of India. Apart from 1.2m Cassegrain f/13 telescope, optimised for infrared and optical observations it houses 0.5m CDK telescope for variability studies. The telescope has a host of back-end instruments, such as 1kx1k & 2kx2k CCDs, Near Infrared Spectrographs (NICMOS-III and NICS), optical polarimeter, PARAS- spectrograph for radial velocity measurements (for exo-planet hunting program) and Fabry-Perot spectrograph. MIRO has its own aluminisation plant for mirror coating, liquid Nitrogen plant to supply liquefied nitrogen to cool astronomical detectors and a small mechanical workshop. The observatory campus also houses an atmospheric and space science laboratory to perform studies related to aerosols and other atmospheric physics experiments.

Brief History

The idea of setting up an optical and IR observatory and initiating the infrared and optical astronomy programme was put forth by PRL during the 1970s. After a suitable astronomical site survey of several locations, Gurushikhar, the highest peak of Aravali range in Mt Abu, Rajasthan, was found most appropriate due to its low water vapour, more than 220 observable nights with reasonably good seeing and the site's vicinity to PRL (240 kms). The responsibility of developing the site, including the construction of the access road, telescope building and other facilities, telescope mount and dome, etc., was given to ISRO. The whole observatory was designed and developed indigenously. The design of telescope drives, mount and other support systems, including telescope control, was taken up by the SHAR Centre which also supervised the fabrication work at Chennai. The mirror fabrication, polishing and other optics was the responsibility of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. All the back-end instruments, one of the most important components of the astronomical observations, were developed in parallel with the setting up of the observatory. It may be worth noting that some of those initial instruments are still functioning and competing with new generation instruments.

The “first Light” image of star alpha Arietis was acquired with the 1.2 m telescope on November 19, 1994 establishing excellent quality of its optics. The observatory started regular operation immediately with the lunar occultation study of IRC-10557 (v Aquarii) on December 7, 1994. Over the years, it has catered to the observational requirements of the scientific programs of the Astronomy and Astrophysics faculty. The research programs cover a wide range of objects and events, such as star formation, stellar structure and evolution, comets, Novae and binary systems, supernovae, lunar occultation studies and starburst and active galactic nuclei. The techniques used are imaging photometry, spectroscopy and polarimetry.

Astronomical data obtained from the observations made from the MIRO have resulted in more than 150 peer reviewed research publications as of now. This is a significant achievement considering rather modest astronomical facilities at the MIRO. The Observatory is in the process of acquiring a larger, 2.5 m telescope which is supposed to give a big boost to its scientific programmes.

Recent results from the observations made at MIRO

Study of nearest and brightest supernova in M 82: Supernova 2014Jwas the brightest and closest Type 1a in the last four decades. Supernova is an explosive event, the brightness of which surpasses the whole galaxy. It can happen when either a massive star runs out of fuel or when a compact object accretesa a large amount of mass from surroundings leading to thermonuclear explosion. SN2014J was studied extensively from Mount Abu both spectroscopically and photometrically. Given its proximity, it offered the best opportunity to date to study a thermonuclear supernova (SN) over a wide range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Optical/IR observations of the rising light curve show that SN 2014J was a spectroscopically normal Type Ia supernova (SN Ia), albeit exhibiting high-velocity features in its spectrum and heavily reddened by the dust in the host galaxy. Seventeen optical and 23 NIR spectra were obtained from 10 days before (-10 d) to 10 days after (+10 d) the time of maximum B-band brightness. Carbon is not detected in the optical spectra, but C I 1.0693 micron in the NIR spectra is identified. The spectra of SN 2014J show that it is a normal SN Ia, but many parameters are near the boundaries between normal and high-velocity subclasses.

Identification and classification of an astronomical source as LBL blazar: Blazars, a sub-class of active galactic nuclei, are one of the brightest sources in the universe. These are highly variable and have variable optical polarisation. One such source, CGRaBS J0211+1050 was detected by space borne observatory Fermi in Gamma-ray. Polarimetric observations carried out at Mt. Abu Observatory detected high and variable optical polarisation in this source and classified it as a possible low energy peaked blazar (LBL). It was later confirmed as an LBL using multi-wavelength data from Mt. Abu and other facilities. The study led to the estimation of the size of the optical emission region, mass of the black hole and underlying magnetic field in the source.

Several other interesting and important results have been obtained on a large number of astronomical sources using the observations from MIRO. A new programme of detecting and characterising planets in the stellar systems beyond our solar system is going on using radial velocity measurement technique. The 1.2 m telescope is in very good health to serve the community for many more years to come. In addition to 1.2 m telescope, 0.5 m CDK telescope also has started functioning in automated mode which is an essential requirement for the continuous monitoring of variable sources, such a blazars. The upcoming new 2.5 m telescope will further strengthen the capability of the MIRO. With the successful commissioning of all the payloads onboard ASTROSAT, Indian community can now boast of a wonderful multi-wavelength platform, right from radio (GMRT and ORT of TIFR) to high energy gamma-rays (HAGAR of TIFR and TACTIC of BARC) to explore the enigmatic universe.

MIRO at Guru Shikhar

Open the link given for watching a video documentary on MIRO

 

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@pmaitra please delete my a second reply which I've accidentally reposted and my this request too.

 

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..........the ambitious RLV-TD .....originally planned a mid-2015 launch for the RLV-TD. ...... postponed to January 2016. ..... first week of February. Otherwise, ....first week of April,’’
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i sure hope they wont delay it further ( congi style ) to the laaaaassst day of 2016 ???

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i sure hope they wont delay it further ( congi style ) to the laaaaassst day of 2016 ???

@angeldude13@Abhijat@Ancient Indian@anupamsurey@aliyah @Alien@angeldude13@Abhijat@Ancient Indian@anupamsurey @aliyah @Alien @Aravind Sanjeev @A chauhan @asingh10 @asianobserve @BATTLE FIELD@bose @Bornubus @brational@blueblood@Blackwater@Blood+ @bhai-117
@Bangalorean @bengalraider @cobra commando @Chirag @Chris Jude @Chinmoy@Cadian @DingDong@ersakthivel @FRYCRY @guru-dutt@Hari Sud@hit&run @indiandefencefan @I_PLAY_BAD @Indian Devil @Indibomber @Jangaruda @jackprince@Kunal @Kshatriya87 Biswas@LETHALFORCE@laughingbuddha @mhk99 @maomao @Neil @Nicky G @OneGrimPilgrim@pmaitra @PaliwalWarrior @Pulkit @Rowdy@Razor@Rashna @[email protected] @Sakal Gharelu Ustad @Srinivas_K @sunnyv @sgarg@sabari @Sameet2 @saik @sorcerer @sydsnyper @Sridevi @SREEKAR @TejasMK3@The enlightened
@tejas warrior@tharun@thethinker@tsunami@Screambowl @Sylex21 @VIP @Vishwarupa @Vishal Guts @Yusuf@Yumdoot @Zebra

Even, this year, it was delayed due to commercial launches. Otherwise, IRNSS and RLV-TD both may have completed.
Just after completing IRNSS constellation in February-March ISRO will conduct a scaled down test on a sounding rocket.
Only one small test could be done in next year because there are commercial launches of GSLV and Heavy Launch of LVM3 is in deadline of next year.

 

[Kshatriya87]

ISRO to have one launch
mission per month on
average

Madurai : Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre scientist Ingersoll has said that the organisation will be having one launch mission every month on an average.

Speaking at the seminar in the Madurai Yadava College on Sunday, he said that the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System when fully operationalised, will revolutionise the GPS services apart from giving accurate information for navigation purposes.

Starting when?
...................

 

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Starting when?
...................

Partially in 2016,
ISRO will launch Rockets in both January and February(probably in March also), will launch space shuttle in April, first commercial mission of GSLV MkII in June/July and many commercial launches of PSLV.
ISRO will be launching GSAT 19E with improved version of GSLV Mark3 and if it suceeds, they want to launch much awaited satellite GSAT 11.
Means it could become two launches in one year of India's newly developed mid-heavy rocket.
Launch of SAARC satellite will also be done by any rocket (dependent on weight) by end of 2016 or start of 2017.
Further, there will executions of many commercial PSLV missions in 2017 and new orders of GSLV MkII.
Probably GSLV MkIII will get commercial orders from many countries like Sri Lanka for communication satellites.
Chandrayaan 2 will also be launched in start or mid of 2017.
Mangalyaan 2 and Venus Orbiter Mission (if finalized) will be launched between 2018 and 2020.
Further more re-entry tests will be done on GSLV MkIII for human spaceflight.
Aditya L-1 will launched in 2019(official) in orbit of sun. So, it may consume 5-6 months of ISRO easily.
Further in 2020, we will see model of ISRO's Asteroid flyby.
As Astrosat would be defunct by then, there may be a new telescope.
In 2020/2021, Vyomanauts will be launched in space.
ULV( and probablyHLV) will also be tested in next decade.
There are nonplans for further but I think it must be a space station and sample return mission to moon and missions to far away planets like Jupiter if we can possess HLV.
Totally, next 15 years gonna be exciting for Indian Space Program.
:biggrin2::biggrin2::biggrin2::biggrin2:

 

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PSLV-C29 - Message from thePresident