I think Crysis was first .Three cheers to @kurup. He was the first person to post real pictures of our GSLV Mark III.
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I think Crysis was first .Three cheers to @kurup. He was the first person to post real pictures of our GSLV Mark III.
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1.A stark example of how not funding science causes harm .
2.I know but 2025 is still 11 years away there can be a way of increasing its performance by switching around its stages (with existing stages of course ). The more I think about it the more I think that we will see Some modifications like changing out the core solid stage . By the end of it we will probably see a GSLV2XL or something . I am also baffled as to how ISRO never got around to clustering engines if it was so concerned with cost . The GSLV3 is the 1st example of such an effort . Clustering was instrumental in helping the Soviet , China and now spaceX make heavy lift rockets using relatively small engines .
Just look at that.... using 700-800 KN hypergolic engines and clustering together 2 78KN LOX H2 engines China has rockets that meets all her needs .
Guess who else has 800KN hypergolic and 75 KN cryo engines .... Meh never mind Im just disappointed at all the missed opportunities .
I just wish that ISRO had looked into building a core stage with 4 clustered vikas engines at say 1996 .
Ok . I guess at this point it is all academic .As i said there was hardly any money for even small tweaking or innovation,the government only sanctioned money for launching once every few years.In those days India's economic situation was very bad and therefore the government was struggling to fund the organization.
You must thank our stars that many of the scientists stayed with ISRO despite the fund crunch,otherwise ISRO would have become another DRDO/HAL.
ISRO should have gone for gas generator cycle cryogenic and semi cryogenic engines right from the beginning,because of it's insistence on staged combustion,we lost over 20 years.Anyways we have now mastered this very complicated staged combustion based engines,So we can literally build anything.Now what ISRO needs to do is to develop the SCE 200 quickly and replace the weak L110 stage of the GSLV MK3 with a clustered SCE 200 which would double the payload capacity to 8 tonnes.
With that kind of capacity GSLV 3 would become a real game changer in international launching market.And now that India is economically doing reasonably well,expect more fundings from the government.
For engines it ended with Vikas,they might have helped us with electronics and other components.any french influence
A0920/14 - IN VIEW OF DNG ZONE DECLARED BY INDIAN AUTHORITIES DUE TO LAUNCH OF FLIGHT VEHICLE MARK III (REF A2212/14 VOMMYNYX) FLW AREA WI COLOMBO FIR DECLARED AS DNG ZONE. 0615N 09055E 0624N 09101E 0600N 09200E 0532N 09200E THE LAUNCH WILL BE ON ANY ONE OF THE DAY DURING THE PERIOD. ACTUAL DATE OF LAUNCH WILL BE INTIMATED 24HRS IN ADVANCE THROUGH A SEPARATE NOTAM WHEN DECLARED BY INDIA. MSL - UNL, DLY BTN 0330-0730, 18 DEC 03:30 2014 UNTIL 31 DEC 07:30 2014. CREATED: 05 DEC 09:32 2014
Dec 17, 2014
UH25 propellant filling operation of Second Stage - L110 is under progress
24 and a half hour countdown for the mission has commenced at 09:00 hrs (IST) on Dec 17, 2014
according to the ISRO official LVM3 mission brochure, the annotation about the second and third Drop Zone should be corrected...
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