ISRO General News and Updates

[angryIndian]

End-to-End Launch Vehicle building through Indian Industry *
NSIL has been mandated for the End-to-End building of ISRO’s launch vehicles through the Indian Industry. *
As part of this mandate, NSIL has signed a contract with M/s HAL [Lead Partner of M/s HAL and L&T consortia] for manufacturing five nos of PSLV. The 1st fully Indian Industry manufactured PSLV will be realised by 2024, and subsequent vehicles every six months.

This is a bit confusing....The industries were already building each and every component of the rocket. So what's the new thing being done here?

 

[Swesh]

Already posted

ISRO General News and Updates

I'm not aware that, that manifold assembly is for water pumps or something else like propellant/gas/air or any other couplant? The red colour is a dead give away that it's a water deluge system. You cannot randomly paint pipelines as per your wish.We have to follow a common standard.In India...

defenceforumindia.com

 

[Swesh]

This is a bit confusing....The industries were already building each and every component of the rocket. So what's the new thing being done here?

A launch agency that is completely being governed by industry aka construm from building components to assembly to launch opration and all launch facilities will be provided by this consortium another example of consortium is ULA United launch alliance in USA

 

[TopWatcher]

This eagerness for space in our children and public surely become no 1 in space one day

 

[Vamsi]

This eagerness for space in our children and public surely become no 1 in space one day

imagine how it will be when manned Gaganyaan (H1) takes off....ISRO should do the best PR in the entire history of our country ...

 

[DumbPilot]

imagine how it will be when manned Gaganyaan (H1) takes off....ISRO should do the best PR in the entire history of our country ...

Gaganyaan would be the chance to inspire an entire generation and maybe even more to STEM. This what happened in the 1960s-70s in both the US and the USSR

 

[Tactical Doge]

Gaganyaan would be the chance to inspire an entire generation and maybe even more to STEM. This what happened in the 1960s-70s in both the US and the USSR

We have more people going into STEM than US and Russia combined

 

[Vamsi]

We have more people going into STEM than US and Russia combined

but we have more babus & less funding to do R&D

 

[TopWatcher]

 

[angryIndian]

We have more people going into STEM than US and Russia combined

Quality matters, Good quality STEM education in India is largely limited to handful of IIT's,NIT's and a few private colleges.

 

[Varoon2]

Here is the official ISRO write up on the RLV mission

Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission (RLV LEX)

April 02, 2023

ISRO successfully conducted the Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission (RLV LEX). The test was conducted at the Aeronautical Test Range (ATR), Chitradurga, Karnataka in the early hours on April 2, 2023.
The RLV took off at 7:10 am IST by a Chinook Helicopter of the Indian Air Force as an underslung load and flew to a height of 4.5 km (above MSL). Once the prede...

The autonomous landing was carried out under the exact conditions of a Space Re-entry vehicle's landing —high speed, unmanned, precise landing from the same return path— as if the vehicle arrives from space. Landing parameters such as Ground relative velocity, the sink rate of Landing Gears, and precise body rates, as might be experienced by an orbital re-entry space vehicle in its return path, were achieved. The RLV LEX demanded several state-of-the-art technologies including accurate Navigation hardware and software, Pseudolite system, Ka-band Radar Altimeter, NavIC receiver, indigenous Landing Gear, Aerofoil honey-comb fins and brake parachute system.

In a first in the world, a winged body has been carried to an altitude of 4.5 km by a helicopter and released for carrying out an autonomous landing on a runway. RLV is essentially a space plane with a low lift to drag ratio requiring an approach at high glide angles that necessitated a landing at high velocities of 350 kmph. LEX utilized several indigenous systems. Lo

 

[Varoon2]

What would be definitely Indian made/indigenous, and what is imported. Would the radar altimeter be imported.

 

[Vamsi]

Here is the official ISRO write up on the RLV mission

Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission (RLV LEX)

April 02, 2023

ISRO successfully conducted the Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission (RLV LEX). The test was conducted at the Aeronautical Test Range (ATR), Chitradurga, Karnataka in the early hours on April 2, 2023.
The RLV took off at 7:10 am IST by a Chinook Helicopter of the Indian Air Force as an underslung load and flew to a height of 4.5 km (above MSL). Once the prede...

The autonomous landing was carried out under the exact conditions of a Space Re-entry vehicle's landing —high speed, unmanned, precise landing from the same return path— as if the vehicle arrives from space. Landing parameters such as Ground relative velocity, the sink rate of Landing Gears, and precise body rates, as might be experienced by an orbital re-entry space vehicle in its return path, were achieved. The RLV LEX demanded several state-of-the-art technologies including accurate Navigation hardware and software, Pseudolite system, Ka-band Radar Altimeter, NavIC receiver, indigenous Landing Gear, Aerofoil honey-comb fins and brake parachute system.

In a first in the world, a winged body has been carried to an altitude of 4.5 km by a helicopter and released for carrying out an autonomous landing on a runway. RLV is essentially a space plane with a low lift to drag ratio requiring an approach at high glide angles that necessitated a landing at high velocities of 350 kmph. LEX utilized several indigenous systems. Lo

next step is ORV

 

[TopWatcher]

Here is the official ISRO write up on the RLV mission

Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission (RLV LEX)

April 02, 2023

ISRO successfully conducted the Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission (RLV LEX). The test was conducted at the Aeronautical Test Range (ATR), Chitradurga, Karnataka in the early hours on April 2, 2023.
The RLV took off at 7:10 am IST by a Chinook Helicopter of the Indian Air Force as an underslung load and flew to a height of 4.5 km (above MSL). Once the prede...

The autonomous landing was carried out under the exact conditions of a Space Re-entry vehicle's landing —high speed, unmanned, precise landing from the same return path— as if the vehicle arrives from space. Landing parameters such as Ground relative velocity, the sink rate of Landing Gears, and precise body rates, as might be experienced by an orbital re-entry space vehicle in its return path, were achieved. The RLV LEX demanded several state-of-the-art technologies including accurate Navigation hardware and software, Pseudolite system, Ka-band Radar Altimeter, NavIC receiver, indigenous Landing Gear, Aerofoil honey-comb fins and brake parachute system.

In a first in the world, a winged body has been carried to an altitude of 4.5 km by a helicopter and released for carrying out an autonomous landing on a runway. RLV is essentially a space plane with a low lift to drag ratio requiring an approach at high glide angles that necessitated a landing at high velocities of 350 kmph. LEX utilized several indigenous systems. Lo

Is it kind of star ship that many startup developing?? How it will go to space??

 

[SavageKing456]

Gaganyaan would be the chance to inspire an entire generation and maybe even more to STEM. This what happened in the 1960s-70s in both the US and the USSR

Indeed also an excellent PR will make sure that it stays as a memory for a long time in the Indian minds

 

[Swesh]

Is it kind of star ship that many startup developing?? How it will go to space??

On the top of GSLV mk2 or lmv 3

 

[TopWatcher]

next step is ORV

What is ORV??

 

[SavageKing456]

 

[TopWatcher]

On the top of GSLV mk2 or lmv 3

Then how it is reusable? Sattelite also sit on top. Reusablty means recover rocket stages. Am I wrong

 

[Vamsi]

Then how it is reusable? Sattelite also sit on top. Reusablty means recover rocket stages. Am I wrong

ORV is similar to X-37B, for strategic applications