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ЦитироватьStating that the launch of GSLV Mark III next month would provide a greater thrust to the country's deep-space programme, he said "We are pragmatically pushing forward the development of semi-cryogenic technology." Demonstration of larger launch vehicles that could carry around 4 ton satellites is being planned in the next couple of months. 'Human in Space' programme was also gaining momentum and GSLV Mark III would accommodate a special module on experimental basis.

He said, the next focus after the Mars mission was towards exploration of the solar system and deep space astronomy. As new applications are being developed, the size of satellites had to be increased and ISRO was planning to develop 10 tons satellites soon.

ЦитироватьOn its own part, Isro has bigger plans. Its human space flights through the experimental flight of GSLV Mark-III scheduled for "launch in the next 2-3 months".
 
 While Isro's workhorse launching vehicle PSLV has carved a niche by scoring 26 wins out of the total 27 missions till date, the existing GSLV and the upcoming Mark-III would give it the strategic edge for introducing higher capacity communication satellites into space.
 
 "The first experimental flight of GSLV Mark-III with passive cryogenic stage and that too in a crew module would be a precursor to the possible human space flight," said Radhakrishnan during his chief guest address here today at the convocation of BITS Hyderabad 2014 batch.
 
 He said Mark III launching vehicle was capable of placing "4-4.5 tonne capacity communication satellite in the geostationary orbit".
 
 The existing PSLV is compatible for launching 1.8 tonne communication satellites and it is 2.2 tonne for the GSLV.

Цитироватьinput~2 пишет:

According to Shar Director:
- By the 2nd week of October 2014: PSLV-C26 launch with IRNSS-1C
- In the 1st week of November 2014: launch of GSLV-MkIII (experimental)
- By the last week of December: launch of PSLV-C27 with IRNSS-1D

(source: http://www.prajasakti.com/index.php?srv=10301&id=1163333 (in Telugu))

Цитироватьantriksh пишет:
Crew Module structural assembly ready for LVM3 X1 mission

 (https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/49110)

ЦитироватьGSLV MK III will make India self-reliant in space: Scientist
Sep 27, 2014 at 06:27pm IST

Thiruvananthapuram: India does not need to rely on foreign countries for launching heavier communication satellites once its experimental mission of GSLV Mark III tasted success, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) Director M Chandra Dathan on Saturday said.
"The GSLV Mark III, scheduled to be launched in November first week, will carry four tonne class of communication satellites and it will help India achieve self-reliance in this," he said.

ЦитироватьCrew Module Prototype to be Tested Aboard GSLV MK-III
By Tiki Rajwi
Published: 01st October 2014 06:03 AM

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Work on the prototype of the Crew Module that is to be used in future manned space missions is nearing completion at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) here at Thumba.
The four-tonne module is to be tested aboard the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk-III (GSLV Mk-III), which is slated for a test flight in late October, officials of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.
"We hope to move the prototype to Sriharikota spaceport in ten days' time,'' GSLV Mk-III project director S Somnath said. An important component of ISRO's Human Spaceflight Programme, such capsules, fitted aboard rockets, are intended to carry astronauts to orbit and return them safely to earth. Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) was responsible for the basic structure of the dummy module, but VSSC has been handling all the critical aspects including integration, heat shields and control and guidance systems.
Since the safety of astronauts is of paramount importance, ISRO has been subjecting the prototype to gruelling tests. Among other things, the module must be able to withstand the intense heat during re-entry into the earth's atmosphere.
The prototype will 'drop' to earth from an altitude of 125 kilometres, officials of Indian Space Research Organisation said.
The main parachute on the module, which is employed to break the fall, will open at a height of 15 kilometres. ISRO plans to recover the capsule from the Bay of Bengal.
In January 2007, ISRO had successfully tested re-entry technologies with the 550 kg Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1). The testing of the dummy crew module will be a far more complicated exercise.
Some aspects that will be closely studied will be the thermal protection system required for re-entry and the control systems.
The assembly of the GSLV Mk-III, India's biggest rocket to date, is progressing at Sriharikota for the October launch. The upper stage of the rocket will be rigged with a more powerful version of the home-made cryogenic engine used in the GSLV D-5 mission last January, but it will not be ignited during the experimental flight.

ЦитироватьAfter Mangalyaan to Mars, Isro plans to send an Indian into space
By Hari Pulakkat, ET Bureau | 15 Oct, 2014, 04.00AM IST

BANGALORE: Within a few weeks, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) will team up with the Indian Air Force to conduct a simple experiment: it will drop a 3.7-tonne capsule fr om a height of 3.5 km and try to land it softly with parachutes. If successful, Isro will take this capsule in November-end to a height of 120 km on a rocket and eject it fr om there, to be recovered from the sea after a soft landing. Success in this experiment would be the first step in Isro's next frontier: human space flight.
Isro has made this capsule, called the crew module, in record time with very little money. The total budget sanctioned was just Rs 145 crore to make the crew module, space suits and other technologies necessary for a human flight into space. Isro still has money left for some more work. The development lasted just over a year and a half, once again emphasising the frugal nature of Isro's engineering. "We wanted to show that we can do this if there is a need," says Isro Chairman K Radhakrishnan.
An actual human flight requires political clearance and heavy investments , a study seven years ago put the cost at Rs 12,400 crore. But Isro is readying itself by developing all necessary technologies. The crew module that is set to fly in November is built to be just like in a final human mission, with only the internal layouts being different. While the helicopter experiment will test the parachutes, an experimental GSLV Mark III flight in November-end will test the re-entry capabilities of of the module.
Isro had done a study seven years ago about the requirements of a human flight, but never really pursued it seriously because a good human-rated vehicle was not ready. The reliable Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) could carry only one person, and so was not a candidate for human flight. The Geostationary Launch Vehicle (GSLV) had a few failures, leaving Isro with no tested vehicle for launching humans into space yet. The current contender is the GSLV Mark III, the completely new heavy heavy lifter that Isro is developing. It is still a few years away from first launch, but technology development is proceeding at full pace.
One can get a taste of the eventual flight from within a model capsule that is kept at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Thiruvananthapuram. Two crew members lie looking up into the roof of the module, watching all the flight data as they move up. The rocket with the passengers would lift off from Sriharikota, move in a nearstraight line towards Australia, wh ere the crew module is pushed into orbit at a height of about 270 km by the cryogenic engine. The module completes seven days in orbit and then descend into the atmosphere to land softly in the sea. This landing and recovery will be tested in end November, but from a height of 120 km. A crew module needs highly sophisticated engineering, as the conditions of descent into the atmosphere are very harsh. The temperatures cross 1,500 degrees centigrade and the forces on the module as it slows down can be 13 times that of gravity; with crew inside feeling a force of four times gravity. The crew module has to withstand these forces and also keep the crew safe. The thermal protection system of the current module is made to be good enough for actual re-entry. The deceleration system of the module is as in the final mission. "With this flight data we would be confident about our aero-thermal predictions," says S Unnikrishnan Nair, Project Director, Human Space Programme.
A number of companies worked on the development of this project along with Isro. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) developed the metallic internal structure, apart from other things. Valeth High Tech Composites in Chennai worked on the thermal protection system. SIDCO near Thiruvananthapuram worked on the vibration fixer and other things. Suresafety India in Baroda developed the space suit. Many of them are regular partners of Isro. None of them make any money on the development, and some have even invested some resources of their own. "It is not business alone," says Peter Valeth, founder of Valeth High Tech Composites. "We are happy to see some unique products becoming successful." Valeth now routinely develops special materials for Isro and the defence forces. All of Isro's rockets use its ablative lining for their nozzles, wh ere temperatures can be very high. It has adapted this work to make silica tiles for the crew module base, which would take the full brunt of the heating while descent through the atmosphere. This is one of the most critical technologies in the module: one space shuttle once lost its crew because of a problem in these tiles. This technology is very useful for the company in the long run, as it is eying exports and planning a manufacturing plant in Thailand.
Suresafety designed a space suit from scratch for this programme. It is this space suit that protects the crew in case of an environmental emergency inside the capsule. The development lasted a year and used a material specially designed for this project. The company claims to have put in Rs 50-60 lakh apart from the money given by Isro, with the hope of making the suit in larger quantities one day. "We are waiting for the moon project and to produce it ourselves," says managing director Nishith Dand.
After the technologies are developed, the actual human flight can be very expensive, and hinges on a political decision. The expense is to create a third launch pad and astronaut training facilities, and to humanrate the launch vehicle. Production assemblies need to be created too. Human rating the launch vehicle is difficult, as it requires at least six continuous flawless flights of the GSLV Mark III. In any case, barring serious failures on the way, Isro could be ready to put humans into space in four to five years.

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/103151.jpg)
The total budget sanctioned was just  Rs 145 crore to make the crew module and other technologies necessary for a human flight into space.

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ЦитироватьWhile the helicopter experiment will test the parachutes, an experimental GSLV Mark III flight in November-end will test the re-entry capabilities of of the module.

Цитироватьantriksh пишет:
Without Thermal protection system (silica tiles)
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/49129)

With Thermal Protection system
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/49128)

ЦитироватьIsro to test GSLV Mark-III, its prelude to manned mission                     
Oct 17, 2014, 04.58 AM IST
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The unmanned crew module that will be carried on board the GSLV will be separated from the carrier in the upper-stage separation and it will come down on a ballistic path. 

 CHENNAI: India will test-fly its indigenous 'big one', the GSLV Mark-III, with an unmanned crew module. This is seen as a prelude to the planned manned mission to space.

 In his address to colleagues and mission leaders at the Mission Control Room after the successful launch of IRNSS-1C in the early hours of Thursday, Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan said the test flight of the GSLV Mark-III would be done in December, probably within the next 45 days.

 The unmanned crew module that will be carried on board the GSLV will be separated from the carrier in the upper-stage separation and it will come down on a ballistic path. This will test some of the primary safety aspects of a future manned mission. Isro has been working on a two-crew module for this.

 M Chandradathan, director, Liquid Propulsions System Centre, said the test flight would be carried out from the second launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. The GSLV Mark-III, which is 42.4 metres tall, has a lift-off weight of 630 tonnes. It will be able to carry payloads of four tonnes into a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) as opposed to the 2 tonne to 2.5 tonne capacity of the original GSLV.

 With its ability to carry heavier satellites into orbit, the Mark III is expected to be one of the most significant launch vehicles of Isro. Once proven successful, GSLV-Mark III and its more advanced versions will be vital for future programmes, including interplanetary missions.

ЦитироватьPress Trust of India (http://www.ndtv.com/topic/press-trust-of-india) | Updated: May 13, 2014 01:37 IST


Stating that many more missions were under different stages, Mr  Radhakrishnan said another major project in the coming months would be the experimental mission of GSLV-MARK 3 with the crew module for country's human space flight mission.

ЦитироватьLiss пишет:
Возможно, первое упоминание этого пуска:

 http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/mangalyaan-doing-well-will-reach-martian-orbit-on-september-24-isro-chairman-523085

ЦитироватьPress Trust of India (http://www.ndtv.com/topic/press-trust-of-india) | Updated: May 13, 2014 01:37 IST


Stating that many more missions were under different stages, Mr Radhakrishnan said another major project in the coming months would be the experimental mission of GSLV-MARK 3 with the crew module for country's human space flight mission.

ЦитироватьSalo пишет:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=15187.msg1159804#msg1159804

Цитироватьantriksh пишет:
Crew Module structural assembly ready for LVM3 X1 mission

 

ЦитироватьRifkat пишет:
Рост в 2,5 до 3м для индийцев совсем не маленький

ЦитироватьGSLV-Mk III is being prepared for launch in first half of December 2014
by Rohit Panshikar - Oct 30, 2014

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is working towards kicking off its first experimental mission of the Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III) by early December this year. The news comes directly from ISRO Chairman, K Radhakrishnan, who was present at the Engineers' Conclave 2014.

Apart from noting that the launch of the GSLV-Mk III is expected to take place during the first half of December, Radhakrishnan cautioned about the plan being a tentative one. Much will depend on data analysis, fine-tuning the new vehicle according to requirements and the weather, of course.

Delays in releasing satellites into orbit are not unheard of, after all. Most recently, ISRO had to put off its PSLV C26/IRNSS-1C mission for a week owing to an unfavorable observation in the telecommand system. Tipping the scales at 630 tonnes, the GSLV-MkIII is destined to be burdened by a crew module weighing 3.65 tonnes.

India is not actually deploying astronauts into space this time either, even though ISRO plans to send a crew into space eventually. Radhakrishnan informed The Economic Times that the integration work of the GSLV-Mk III has been finished and it is at a vehicle assembly building in Sriharikota.

The vehicle is currently being put through electrical tests. Its configuration is different from that of the PSLV or the GSLV, and hence scientists need to be absolutely certain of how it could hold up in space. They have to get an idea of how it acts in the atmospheric phase, its performance and more.

The GSLV-Mk III is crafted to make sure ISRO personnel are prepped for handling launch of heavier (4500 to 5000 kilograms) communication satellites of INSAT-4 class, all by themselves.

ЦитироватьIsro to Test Crew Module in December for India's First Human Space Flight
Indo-Asian News Service, October 31, 2014
 
India will launch an unmanned crew module in December onboard a heavy rocket to test its re-entry into the atmosphere for the country's maiden human space flight, the space agency chief said Thursday.
"We will send an unmanned crew module on the experimental GSLV-Mark III rocket in December and test its re-entry into the earth's atmosphere for a human space flight plan in future," Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro (http://gadgets.ndtv.com/tags/isro)) Chairman K. Radhakrishnan told reporters in Bangalore on the margins of an engineers conclave.
Weighing 3.6 tonnes, the crew module will be put into orbit 100-120km up in a satellite and brought back to Earth for checking its re-entry characteristics when carrying two Indian astronauts in the proposed human space flight.
"Though the actual human space flight will be in an orbit around earth at a height of 270km for a week, the experimental flight with the crew module in a spacecraft will go up to 100-120km above earth to test its heat shield survive very high temperatures (about 1,500 degrees Celsius) during the re-entry into the atmosphere," Radhakrishnan noted.
The crew module will have a parachute that will open up after re-entry into the atmosphere and fall into sea for retrieval.
"The parachute will open up for soft landing of the spacecraft carrying the crew module in the Bay of Bengal, about 450 km away from Andamans (islands), and will be retrieved by a boat," Radhakrishnan said.
The previous UPA government had sanctioned Rs. 145 crores to Isro for developing a crew module that will fly two Indian astronauts into space, space suits, life support systems and related technologies for the human space flight programme.
The heavy rocket (GSLV) will, however, have a passive cryogenic stage - liquid nitrogen at super cooled temperature and gaseous nitrogen instead of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.
The space agency is integrating the rocket with the crew module at its Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh, about 90 km northeast of Chennai.
 

ЦитироватьQuoondо пишет:
Я думаю что какую-нибудь птичку или крокодильчика они все-таки потом запустят..

Цитироватьpkl пишет:

ЦитироватьQuoondо пишет:
Я думаю что какую-нибудь птичку или крокодильчика они все-таки потом запустят..

Павлина, ага.

Цитироватьamadeys пишет:
Предлагаю на голосование. Я за индийскую кобру. При посадке во внештатном районе никто из местных любопытных не полезет внутрь.

Цитироватьpkl пишет:
Павлина, ага.

Цитироватьpkl пишет:

ЦитироватьQuoondо   пишет:
Я думаю что какую-нибудь птичку или крокодильчика они все-таки потом запустят..

Павлина, ага.

ЦитироватьAlex_II пишет:

Цитироватьpkl пишет:
Павлина, ага.

Лучше сразу слона - он хотя бы не орет так противно... Ну и перспективнее это...

Цитироватьpkl пишет:
Слон туда не поместится.

Цитироватьpkl пишет:
 Слон туда не поместится. Сейчас погуглил: национальный символ Индии - корова. Но она тоже не влезет, да и местные попы не разрешат. Так что из вариантов: павлин, которому придется обрезать хвост, змея, крысы, ну и обезьяна.

ЦитироватьВ декабре Индия запустит беспилотный вариант космического корабля
 
1 ноября 2014 г.
09:45
« Военный Паритет ». В декабре Индия запустит беспилотный вариант будущего пилотируемого космического корабля, сообщает DefenceNews.in 31 октября.
Аппарат массой 3,6 т будет выведен на высоту 100-120 км с помощью ракеты-носителя GSLV-Mark III, Целью запуска является проверка теплозащиты корабля при входе в атмосферу (температура нагрева достигает 1500 градусов по Цельсию), затем аппарат совершит посадку при помощи парашюта. Аппарат будет посажен в Бенгальском заливе в 450 км от Андаманских островов. Работы по запуску ведутся на космодроме Шрихарикоте (шт. Андхра-Прадеш) примерно в 90 км к северо-востоку от Ченнаи.

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ЦитироватьSalo пишет:
http://www.militaryparitet.com/ttp/data/ic_ttp/6964/

ЦитироватьВ декабре Индия запустит беспилотный вариант космического корабля 
 

ЦитироватьBANGALORE,  November 2, 2014  
GSLV Mark-III set for partial test flight
Madhumathi D. S.  
(http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/02182/gslv_2182598f.jpg)
  R. S.Kannu, Senior Scientist of Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre of Indian Space Research Organisation near Tirunelveli, explaining the features and functioning of the GSLV Mark-III to school students, at an outreach programme organised by ISRO in Tirupur. File photo: R. Vimal Kumar  
 
Future workhorse will test unmanned crew module: ISRO chief
 
GSLV Mark-III, the bigger and better space vehicle that will enable larger national communication satellites to be launched from India, is set for its first partial test flight in the first half of December.
The landmark test flight will lead to a "future workhorse vehicle that will stay with us for many years," ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan said.
It also tests features of an unmanned crew module that will be flown down from space and recovered from sea.
The second study is part of an ambitious future Human Space Flight proposal that is yet to be approved. The space agency has not attempted a partial test flight before in its rocket development course but Mark-III's new gas generator cycle technology allows this.
In the crew module test, "the main objective is to look at heating during re-entry and how a vehicle of that size and shape performs in the crucial space phase. The thermal protection systems around the crew module must withstand the [high] temperature." A failsafe, parachute-aided descent of the crew module is crucial for flying future Indian astronauts into space and getting them back to Earth safely.
Pre-launch activities have begun for Mark-III, Dr. Radhakrishnan said on the sidelines of an engineers' conclave here. A parachute test was conducted on Thursday and another one would be done in the coming days.
The vehicle stages are being put together and electrical checks are being done at launch site Sriharikota; propulsion systems are being readied at Mahendragiri.
"We should be able to integrate the vehicle [with] the crew module by the end of this month and test the entire system [on ground]," he said.
Mark-III is a totally new vehicle different from the smaller indigenous GSLV Mark-II [II] that is of half its capacity. Its three stages are respectively fuelled by solid, liquid and the upper cryogenic propellants.
For the December flight, "the [solid-fuelled] strap-ons and the liquid core are active but the cryogenic engines will not be ignited. The propellants will be simulated."

Two years away
Mark-III can have its first full developmental flight — carrying a full satellite of about 3,500 kg – only when the cryogenic stage is qualified; that could take two to three years. ISRO now depends on costly foreign launchers to put its 3-tonne communication satellites into space.
"If a couple of developmental flights succeed, then we should be able to launch from India communication satellites weighing 3.5 tonnes to 4 tonnes and which can carry more transponders and more power... We now have confidence [of realising] the cryogenic engine and stage in that timeframe," said Dr. Radhakrishnan.

ЦитироватьExperimental flight of GSLV Mark 3 in December: ISRO chief  
IANS  |  New Delhi 
November 11, 2014 Last Updated at 19:52 IST

India  (http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=India)will conduct an experimental test of its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark 3 in mid-December, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chief K. Radhakrishnan said Tuesday.
 The satellite launch vehicle will have a capacity of carrying approximately four tonnes of load, and will be able to launch heavier satellites in space, Radhakrishnan said, delivering the 50th Foundation Day Address at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA).
 He also said India now stands 5th or 6th in the list of nations with space programmes.
 "In mid-December, we will have the experimental flight of the GSLV Mark 3. It will not launch a satellite in this flight, and will be passive in the upper stage," said the ISRO chief.
 "It will be ready for developmental flight in two years," he added.
 The vehicle is 42.4 metres tall compared to the other GSLV which is 49 metres. It will be a three-stage vehicle.
 Development for the GSLV Mark 3 began in the early 2000s, with the first launch planned for 2009-2010. Several factors, including the April 15, 2010 failure of the ISRO-developed cryogenic upper stage on the GSLV Mk II, have delayed the programme.
 Pointing out that the cryogenic engine used in the launch vehicle, developed totally indigenously, makes India one of the few countries with the technology, Radhakrishnan said India still lagged behind several other countries in the capacity of its launch vehicles.
 "China has launch vehicles with 5.5 tonnes capacity, Europe has 11 tonnes capacity launch vehicle, US has 13 tonnes capacity launch vehicles and Russia has nearly 10 tonnes capacity vehicles," he said.
 The ISRO chief said the long-term target is to make a launch vehicle with 12 tonnes capacity.
 Talking about the success of the Mars Orbiter mission, the ISRO chief said the success of the mission is gratifying, especially because it has changed the perception of the global space community towards India.
 "India took only four years to launch the mission from its conception and used its ingenuity by moving to right location, using the propulsion of the satellite and also by designing a unique mission in which minimum energy transfer from the Earth orbit to Mars orbit was made possible. The mission was also more significant as the previous international missions undertaken before India had very low success rate," he said.

ЦитироватьExperimental flight of GSLV Mark 3 in December: ISRO chief  
IANS  |  New Delhi
November 11, 2014 Last Updated at 19:52 IST

India  (http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=India)will conduct an experimental test of its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark 3 in mid-December, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chief K. Radhakrishnan said Tuesday.
 The satellite launch vehicle will have a capacity of carrying approximately four tonnes of load, and will be able to launch heavier satellites in space, Radhakrishnan said, delivering the 50th Foundation Day Address at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA).
 He also said India now stands 5th or 6th in the list of nations with space programmes.
 "In mid-December, we will have the experimental flight of the GSLV Mark 3. It will not launch a satellite in this flight, and will be passive in the upper stage," said the ISRO chief.
 "It will be ready for developmental flight in two years," he added.
 The vehicle is 42.4 metres tall compared to the other GSLV which is 49 metres. It will be a three-stage vehicle.
 Development for the GSLV Mark 3 began in the early 2000s, with the first launch planned for 2009-2010. Several factors, including the April 15, 2010 failure of the ISRO-developed cryogenic upper stage on the GSLV Mk II, have delayed the programme.
 Pointing out that the cryogenic engine used in the launch vehicle, developed totally indigenously, makes India one of the few countries with the technology, Radhakrishnan said India still lagged behind several other countries in the capacity of its launch vehicles.
 "China has launch vehicles with 5.5 tonnes capacity, Europe has 11 tonnes capacity launch vehicle, US has 13 tonnes capacity launch vehicles and Russia has nearly 10 tonnes capacity vehicles," he said.
 The ISRO chief said the long-term target is to make a launch vehicle with 12 tonnes capacity.
 Talking about the success of the Mars Orbiter mission, the ISRO chief said the success of the mission is gratifying, especially because it has changed the perception of the global space community towards India.
 "India took only four years to launch the mission from its conception and used its ingenuity by moving to right location, using the propulsion of the satellite and also by designing a unique mission in which minimum energy transfer from the Earth orbit to Mars orbit was made possible. The mission was also more significant as the previous international missions undertaken before India had very low success rate," he said.

ЦитироватьДмитрий Инфан пишет:
ИМХО, куда интересней узнать, когда полетит индийский космонавт. И иранский.  8)  

ЦитироватьИндия до 2021 года рассчитывает осуществить свой первый   пилотируемый космический полет. Об этом сегодня в интервью   телеканалу NDTV заявил глава Индийской организации   космических исследований  Кумарасвами Радхакришнан.
 
 "Мы думаем, что сможем осуществить полет в течение   шести-семи лет", - добавил он.
 
 По его словам, в ближайшие дни состоится пуск ракеты-  носителя с макетом капсулы экипажа собственного индийского   производства, "что станет главным шагом на пути к полету".   Она рассчитана на трех человек, передает ТАСС.

ЦитироватьBizonich пишет:
1. Орион.
2. Ангара 5.
3. Индийская капсула.
ИМХО.

ЦитироватьДимитър пишет:
Но индийцы свой полет уже много раз отлагали. Другим это только предстоит, ИМХО.

ЦитироватьUpd ated: November 25, 2014 02:12 IST
All se t to put unmanned crew module into orbit T. S. Subramanian
 
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 VSSC/ISRO ISRO's unmanned crew module undergoing tests at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram. The maiden flight of GSLVMark III in December 2014 will put the unmanned crew module in the orbit.
 
 There is frenetic activity at Sriharikota for the maiden lift-off of India's newest and the biggest launch vehicle in December, which will put an unmanned crew module into orbit.
 The mission is a stepping stone to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) ultimately sending astronauts into space in the module.
 The 3.65-tonne module will get de-mated from the topmost cryogenic stage at an altitude of 125 km and return to the earth. At an altitude of 15 km, there will be an "aerial ballet," featuring three huge parachutes which will open up one after the other to slow down the module's descent. The module is expected to splash down in the sea near the Andaman archipelago and will be recovered by the Indian Coast Guard and ISRO personnel. The entire flight from the lift-off to the splash-down will last about 20 minutes. It is a passive, experimental and sub-orbital mission.
 ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan said, "Everything is progressing well" for the GSLV-MkIII launch in December. The rocket weighs 630 tonnes and is 42.4 metres tall.
 "We are ready. Everything is pucca," said M.C. Dathan, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, which has built both the GSLV-MKIII and the unmanned crew module. Two gigantic strap-on motors, each of which will use 200 tonnes of solid propellants, have been strapped around the core stage in the second launch pad. The core stage will use 110 tonnes of liquid propellants. Above the core stage is the cryogenic stage. The module will be "encapsulated" with the cryogenic stage on November 26, said Mr. Dathan.
 S. Somanath, Project Director, GSLV-MKIII, called it India's "biggest, heaviest and the next generation" launch vehicle.

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ЦитироватьIndia to Push Next Space Frontier, With Launch of Crew Module in mid-December
All India | Edited by Shyam Balasubramanian (with inputs from agencies) | Upd ated: November 29, 2014 22:17 IST
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ISRO's crew module, named CARE, which will be launched on board the GSLV-Mark III in mid-December.

Sriharikota:  Just months after achieving the milestone of a successful mission to Mars, India is set to push another frontier in space, by launching a human crew module and then retrieving it from the sea upon re-entry. The crew module will blast off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, on board the GSLV-Mark III, which will be India's heaviest rocket till date.

The crew module will not carry any astronauts on its first test flight, which is scheduled between December 15 and 20. After rising more than a hundred kilometres into space, the crew module would be brought back to Earth, and its reentry trajectory will be studied. The capsule will then be recovered using Indian coast Guard ships from close to the Andaman Nicobar islands. A simulated recovery was carried out recently in the region.

The crew module will be launched as a payload on the GSLV-Mark III, which will blast off for the first time. The flight would be a sub-orbital test flight, and will see the first two stages being fired. The third stage, which is cryogenic, is still under development and would not be tested. However, the launch vehicle would carry a dummy cryogenic stage.

Till date, only Russia, America and China have the capability of flying astronauts into space. Once the government gives a final go-ahead for this ambitious rupees 12500 crores human space flight endeavor by ISRO, India will be able to notch another significant achievement in space exploration.

ISRO says it can fly an astronaut within seven to eight years of the govt giving its final go-ahead. The only Indian to have gone into space is astronaut Rakesh Sharma, who flew aboard the Soyuz space capsule in 1984.

The flight of the GSLV-Mark III will also be monitored by ISRO scientists, for its flight parameters, its behaviour as it moves through the atmosphere and its stability.

While the rocket would cost Rs. 140 crore, the crew module would cost Rs. 15 crore, said MYS Prasad, Director of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.

"The rocket can carry up to four tonne payload. This is the heaviest rocket India has ever launched. It is 630 tonne at lift off. We would test only the first two stages and not the cryogenic stage," explained S Somanath, Project Director, GSLV Mark III.

The cup cake-shaped crew module is 2.5 metre tall and 3.5 metre in diameter."The three tonne weighing crew module would use four se t of parachutes to safely land on the surface of the sea at 7 metre per second. It will land some 180 km from Indira Point of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. From the lift off to the crew module splashing into the sea, it will take around 20 minutes," said S Unnikrishnan Nair, Project Director of the Crew Module programme.

The capsule, tentatively designed to carry three astronauts, would be recovered by Indian Coast Guard ships. A practice of the recovery was done on October 31 with Coast Guard ship ICGS Samudra Paheredar, he added.

Цитироватьabhishek пишет:

So in brief

CREW MODULE

1) Name  - CARE

2) Dimention - 2.5m tall,3.5m dia

3) Mass - 3.6 tonnes

4) Capacity - 3 crew

Mission profile :-

1) Launch Date - Dec 15-20

2) Expenditure - Crew module - 2.4 million $
                         GSLV 3         - 22.5 million $

3) Orbit - Suborbital(126 km)

4)  Splashdown - 180 kms from Indira point in Andaman island

5) Total duration - 20 mins

ЦитироватьTo put man in space, Isro to test crew module in December
Binoy Valsan,TNN   | Nov 30, 2014, 12.46 AM IST

SRIHARIKOTA: Scientists at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota are busy integrating a brown bucket-like structure with a black lid mounted on a pedestal. Some day soon, they believe, an improved version of this would carry human beings to space.
 
 Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is taking baby steps towards sending man to space, with an experimental flight of a GSLV-Mark III all set to carry this 'crew module' as the payload in the second week of December. While the manned mission is at least 10 years away, a full-fledged flight of GSLV-MIII is still a couple of years away. The biggest rocket ever to be made by Isro, it can carry payloads up to four tones—a necessity in the coming days of heavy communication satellites.
 
 For this, scientists are testing the indigenously developed cryogenic engine at Isro's Mahendragiri facility in Tirunelveli district. In the experimental flight called the LVM3-X/CARE mission, the cryogenic engine C25 will not be used.
 
 "We will be having a morning launch for the experimental test flight on any day between December 15 and 20. The date will be finalized in another week," said SHAR director M Y S Prasad. The unmanned module to be used in Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment (CARE) is to test the ability of the module to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere with thermal resistance, parachute deployment in cluster formation, aero braking system and apex cover separation procedures.
 
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Isro's crew module or CARE, which would be launched by LVM 3 in an experimental mission from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota between December15 and 20. (PTI Photo)
 
 The crew module will be separated from the GSLV rocket at an altitude of 126km and will re-enter the atmosphere at about 80km. It will 'soft-crash' into the Bay of Bengal about 600km from Port Blair, and be retrieved by the Indian Coast Guard tracking its beacon signal. This will be the first time the module weighing more than 3,000kg will be tested for its atmospheric reentry and parachute deployment patterns from such high altitudes. Isro's first space recovery experiment (SRE-1) module launched by a PSLV in January 2007 weighed just 555kg, and it was not a crew module. It re-entered atmosphere and was successfully collected from the Bay of Bengal.
 
 "We will not be injecting any object into the orbit during this test flight. The crew module costs around Rs 15 crore and Rs 140 crore was spent on the GSLV Mark III components to be used for the test flight," said project director S Somanath.
 
 CARE mission director Unnikrishnan Nair said so far the crew module has been tested by airdropping it from IAF choppers and the test flight will provide them a chance to actually map its trajectory, thermo resistance capacity of the exterior. The module will be packed with three separate sets of parachutes to be deployed in pairs, including a 31-metre diameter parachute which will be the biggest made in the country. Experts pointed out that manned missions in the future will involve similar crew modules, but with special chambers for life support.

ЦитироватьUpdated: December 4, 2014 09:48 IST
GSLV Mark III faces its first experimental flight N. Gopal Raj
   
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GSLV Mark III during a trial assembly using dummy stages carried out in 2012.  
 
 Later this month, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark III is expected to lift off for the first time from India's spaceport at Sriharikota on an experimental flight that will assess the rocket's performance as it hurtles through the atmosphere to reach speeds many times that of sound.
 When operational, the GSLV Mark III will be the Indian Space Research Organisation's most powerful rocket, capable of putting four-tonne communication satellites into orbit, almost double the capacity of the current GSLV. The Mark III will weigh about 640 tonnes at launch, about 50 per cent heavier than the GSLV.
 Should India decide to send astronauts into space, this will be the rocket that carries them. So it is perhaps appropriate that the forthcoming launch will also provide an early test of a crew module that is being developed.
 During the 1990s, it became clear that a new launcher was needed to meet the country's requirements for communication satellites heavier than what the existing GSLV could carry, according to K. Kasturirangan, who was the ISRO chairman when the Rs. 2,498-crore project for developing the GSLV Mark III was approved by the Government in May 2002. Over four years of studies, simulations, debates on technical issues and several reviews went into finalising the Mark III's configuration, he said.
 Reducing the total number of propulsion modules that make up the GSLV Mark III was seen as crucial to increasing the rocket's reliability and reducing launch costs, according to ISRO experts this correspondent spoke to. The GSLV Mark III has just four propulsion modules while its predecessor, the GSLV, has seven.
 The GSLV Mark III has two huge solid propellants boosters, which are among the largest in the world, flanking a big liquid propellant core stage. Atop the core stage, sits a cryogenic upper stage that will provide half the velocity needed to put communication satellites into the proper orbit.
 While the solid booster and the liquid propellant core stage completed ground tests and were qualified for flight about three years back, development of the cryogenic engine, running on liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, for the Mark III's upper stage is still in progress.
 For the experimental launch, the Mark III will be equipped with a dummy cryogenic engine and stage that will simulate the weight and other characteristics of the flight version. Consequently, the rocket will not be able to put the crew module it carries into orbit.
 The rocket will, however, give the crew module a velocity of 5.3. km/second when the latter separates at a height of about 125 km. The capsule will then descend and splashdown in the Bay of Bengal, about 600 km from Port Blair in the Andaman Islands.
 The GSLV Mark III is "a totally new configuration," observed K. Radhakrishnan, the current ISRO chairman, explaining the rationale for the experimental mission. "So if there are issues with respect to the configuration and we need to take care of that, it is better to take care of [them] early." It was not necessary to wait till the cryogenic stage was qualified.
 The GSLV Mark III is more sensitive than the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and the current GSLV to disturbances that might occur as it accelerates through the dense atmosphere, noted S. Ramakrishnan, who was the first project director for its development and retired earlier this year as director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Thiruvananthapuram. The ability of the rocket's control systems to effectively handle such perturbations without violating the vehicle's structural capabilities will be tested during the experimental flight.
 Building on experience with the big solid propellant first stage of the PSLV and GSLV, which carries 139 tonnes of propellant, the Mark III's two giant 'S200' boosters each holds 207 tonnes of solid propellant. Only the solid boosters for America's Space Shuttle and Titan IV-B as well as Europe's Ariane 5 have more propellant than the S200. Of these, only the Ariane 5 is still operational.
 A separate facility has been established at Sriharikota to make the S200 boosters. The closely matched thrust levels required from the two boosters was achieved by carefully controlling both the quality of the raw materials used and their subsequent processing, said M.C. Dathan, who oversaw the development of the S200 and is currently director of VSSC.
 Another major achievement is that the S200's large nozzle has been equipped with a 'flex seal.' The nozzle can therefore be swivelled when the rocket's orientation needs correction.
 The GSLV Mark III's two S200 boosters fire at lift off, together generating a thrust of over 800 tonnes. The sheer volume of sound produced at lift off could potentially damage the rocket and the spacecraft. A sound suppression system has therefore been installed on the launch pad that will be spray about 20 tonnes of water per second to reduce noise levels during lift off.
 In flight, as the thrust from the S200 boosters begins to tail off, the decline in acceleration is sensed by the rocket's onboard sensors and the twin Vikas engines on the 'L110' liquid propellant core stage are then ignited.
 Before the S200s separate and fall away from the rocket, the solid boosters as well as the Vikas engines operate together for a short period of time. The thermal environment at the base of the L110 stage will be monitored during the experimental mission. The transition of control over the vehicle's orientation from the S200s to the L110 will also be closely watched.
 The L110 stage, with a diameter of four metres, carries 115 tonnes of liquid propellant. Although the Vikas engine has already flown on the PSLV and the GSLV, those on the Mark III have to operate for a longer duration.
 The first developmental flight of the GSLV Mark-III, with a functional cryogenic engine and stage, could take place in two years' time, according to Dr. Radhakrishnan.

ЦитироватьISRO Gears Up for GSLV Mark III Launch Between Dec. 20-25

in Editor's Pick, SCIENCE December 2, 2014   

ISRO has celebrated "Mangal Mahotsav" on the occasion of its successful Mars Orbit Mission 'Maangalyaan' recently at its Bangalore headquarters and reiterated its resolve to send the next big mission — the launch of Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III) anytime between Dec. 20 and 25, dependin on weather conditions, said officials.

gslv mark_3M Pitchaimani, Deputy Director, ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bangalore, said through the launch of GSLV-Mk III, Indian national space agency intends to send crew module or capsule into the deep space to study the ascent phase of the rocket as well as the recovery of a human capsule, after it re-enters the earth's atmosphere withstanding the heat and wind force.

China has successfully conducted the re-entry mission in October, setting its target on sending manned mission to Mars and other planets soon. The re-entry capability also enables development of a possible space shuttle by these two nations, in addition to NASA and Russian space agency.

GSLV Mk III is intended to carry heavy payloads, satellites of INSAT-4 class weighing 4500 to 5000 kg and also enhance the capability to take up the multimillion dollar commercial launch missions. The vehicle will also carry multi-mission launch capability for GTO, LEO, Polar and intermediate circular orbits.

GSLV-Mk III is a three stage vehicle, with 42.4 m tall with a lift off weight of 630 tonnes. Its first stage comprises two identical S200 Large Solid Booster (LSB) with 200 tonne solid propellant, that are strapped on to the second stage, the L110 re-startable liquid stage and the third stage is the C25 LOX/LH2 cryo stage. ISRO is banking on new advanced parachutes to manage the entire mission of recovery phase.

Цитироватьpkl пишет:
Йог поместится.

ЦитироватьПрол пишет:
Однако, размер-то побольше, чем у спускаемого аппарата "Союз"  ;)  .

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Цитироватьisro-watch пишет:
Expected Launch Date: 18-Dec-2014

input~2 пишет:
Seems to be confirmed by NOTAM announcing closure of airways East of Chennai (MMV VOR) from December 18, 0330UTC

ЦитироватьA2212/14 - CLOSURE/ALTN ROUTINGS: I) P574 NOT AVBL BTN MMV VOR AND DUBTA ALTN RTE: MMV VOR-DCT-ADKIT-POINT Z 0854N08626E-DCT-DUBTA-P574 (BIDIRECTIONAL) II) P761 NOT AVBL BTN MMV VOR AND IDASO ALTN RTE: MMV VOR - TR319/139DEG-53NM-TTP VOR-DCT- POINT A 142225N0800303E-DCT- GURAS-DCT-IDASO(BIDIRECTIONAL) III) P762 NOT AVBL BTN BIKEN AND DUGOS ALTN RTE: BIKEN-DCT-POINT Z 0854N08626E-DCT -DUGOS-P762 (BIRECTIONAL) IV) W20 NOT AVBL BTN MMV VOR AND BODEL ALTN RTE: MMV VOR- TR319/139DEG-53NM-TTP VOR- TR357/177DEG-81NM- BODEL (BIDIRECTIONAL) V) A465 NOT AVBL BTN MMV VOR AND DOKET ALTN RTE: MMV VOR-TR319/139DEG-53NM-TTP VOR- DCT- POINT A 142225N0800303E-DCT-DOKET (BIDIRECTIONAL) VI) ATS RTE N563,B466,Q10,Q11,V003,V004,V006,V008,V009 AND V011 NOT AVBL. GND - UNL) END PART 1 OF 2, 0330-0730, 18 DEC 03:30 2014 UNTIL 31 DEC 07:30 2014. CREATED: 03 DEC 16:49 2014

Цитировать(http://www.isro.org/gslv-mkiii-x/Imagegallery/launchvehicle_images/gslv-mkiii-x-1.jpg) (http://www.isro.org/gslv-mkiii-x/Imagegallery/launchvehicle_images/gslv-mkiii-x-1.jpg)
The two S200 Strap-ons during the integration of the vehicle
 
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L110 Liquid Core Stage being prepared at Stage Preparation Facility
 
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The partially integrated vehicle with S200 Strap-ons and L110 Core Stage outside the Vehicle Assembly Building
 
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The passive C25 Cryogenic Upper Stage being hoisted at Vehicle Assembly Building
 
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Integration of the passive C25 Cryogenic Upper Stage with L110 liquid Core Stage in Progress at Vehicle Assembly Building
 
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CARE at clean room before its launch
 
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GSLV Mk-III mock-up at Second Launch Pad

ЦитироватьAlex_II пишет:

ЦитироватьПрол пишет:
Однако, размер-то побольше, чем у спускаемого аппарата "Союз"  ;)  .

Ну значит три йога поместится... В скафандрах...

ЦитироватьVK пишет:
Зачем йогам скафандры? :o   :D

ЦитироватьUnmanned crew module to be tested
N. GOPAL RAJ
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 THE AIM: The flight will test the module's re-entry characteristics.  
 
Thirty years after Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to venture into space, flying aboard a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft, an Indian crew capsule and rocket that could one day carry astronauts will get their first trial next week.
The experimental flight of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark III, scheduled for next Thursday (Dec. 18), will send the unmanned crew module on a suborbital trajectory, with the latter splashing down in the Bay of Bengal about 21 minutes after the rocket lifts off from Sriharikota.
This flight would test the crew module's re-entry characteristics, said K. Radhakrishnan, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Recovery of the spacecraft from the ocean, carried out with the help of the Indian Coast Guard, would also be "an involved task." Back in January 2007, ISRO had orbited a small 550-kg spacecraft, the Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1), that carried out remote-controlled experiments in the microgravity conditions of space. After 12 days in orbit, the spacecraft was successfully brought back, landing in the Bay of Bengal with remarkable precision. This provided experience with re-entry, a prerequisite for manned spaceflight.
A project report prepared by ISRO envisaged carrying out a manned mission in about seven years at a cost of around Rs. 12,400 crore. Thus far, the Government has not cleared such a project.
However, since 2007, the Government had given Rs. 145 crore for the development of critical technologies needed for a manned mission, according to Dr. Radhakrishnan.
The 3.7-tonne crew module being tested next week will be the same size, shape and weight as the capsule that is being developed to accommodate up to three astronauts. It will be equipped with the heat-protecting tiles and parachute system of the manned version.
While a capsule in orbit around Earth will re-enter with a velocity of over 28,000 km per hour, next week's test will see the GSLV Mark III leave the crew module at a height of about 125 km with a velocity of around 19,000 km per hour. The crew module carries sensors that will make measurements of over 200 parameters during the flight, including the temperature, pressure and stress experienced at various points in the structure. "This flight will give us tremendous confidence in our design and provide important inputs for proceeding with development of the manned capsule," observed S. Unnikrishnan Nair, project director for the Human Spaceflight Programme.
After separation from the GSLV Mark III, six liquid-propellant thrusters on the crew module will be used to correct any perturbations that occur during separation and bring the capsule down at the correct angle for re-entry into the atmosphere.
Once re-entry starts at a height of about 80 km, the thrusters will cease to operate. As the crew module streaks through the atmosphere, the air around it heats up and the spacecraft slows down. The heat shield at its base will be exposed to temperatures of around 1,000 degrees Celsius, according to Mr. Nair. (In re-entry from orbit, the temperature could touch 1,600 degrees Celsius.)
At a height of about 15 km, with the capsule travelling at 839 km per hour, the complex process of deploying the parachutes begins.
The crew module carries two independent sets of parachutes, both of which are simultaneously deployed. First, the 2.5-metre diameter pilot parachutes come out, followed by the 6.5-metre drogue parachutes, which cut the capsule's velocity down to 180 km per hour.
Then the main parachutes are deployed at a height of about 5 km. These parachutes, each 31 metres in diameter, are the largest ever made in the country and were developed by the Aerial Delivery Research & Development Establishment, an Agra-based national defence laboratory.
On splashdown, the main parachutes will be immediately detached from the crew module and a beacon giving its position activated. A fluorescent green dye will also be emitted to aid in locating the spacecraft.
In the coming test, the crew module could experience decelerations of up to 13 g, said Mr. Nair. But, in a mission with humans onboard, the capsule's thrusters would continue to operate till parachute deployment began, adjusting the spacecraft's orientation and trajectory, and keeping deceleration levels to less than 4 g. (One g being equivalent to the tug of Earth's gravity.)

ЦитироватьISRO ‏@isro  (https://twitter.com/isro) 1 hour ago (https://twitter.com/isro/status/542922589262184448)

GSLV Mk-III rolls out to the launch pad for its Experimental Flight, slated later in this month.

ЦитироватьВиктор Левашов пишет:
судя по картинкам, на мой дилетантский взгляд, индийцы идут более по американскому пути, нежели по нашему, как китайцы.

Цитироватьpkl пишет:
Ерунда, йоги могут самомумифицироваться. Так что лучше четыре голых йога - будет рекорд, который ещё долго никто не побьёт!

Цитироватьpkl пишет:
Рекорд - число йогов в одном запуске.

ЦитироватьAlex_II пишет:
Шатл возил семерых - вот этот рекорд долго не побьют... А если четверых впихнут - так в следующий раз Боинг или Маск шестерых выведут - и алга рекорду...

ЦитироватьAlex_II пишет:
Шатл возил семерых

ЦитироватьТеплотехник пишет:
Шаттл возил восьмерых!

ЦитироватьБлудный пишет:
Да пусть хоть трое. Но куда они собираются летать?

ЦитироватьБлудный пишет:
Да пусть хоть трое. Но куда они собираются летать?

ЦитироватьSalo пишет:
Окно пуска 06:30-0930 ДМВ. Дата 18 декабря.

ЦитироватьA2287/14 - REF CHENNAI NOTAM A2212/14. LVM3 (LAUNCH VEHICLE MARK III) ROCKET LAUNCH FM SHAR RANGE, SRIHARIKOTA, INDIA IS SCHEDULED ON 18 DECEMBER 2014 BTN 0330-0730UTC. ATC MAY RE-ROUTE TRAFFIC DURING THIS PERIOD AS PER ROUTINGS GIVEN IN THE ABOVE NOTAM. LAUNCH WINDOW FOR THE REMAINING PERIOD FM 19 DECEMBER 2014 TO 31 DECEMBER 2014 SHALL BE KEPT ALIVE FOR RESCHEDULING OF LAUNCH IF REQUIRED. GND - UNL, 18 DEC 03:30 2014 UNTIL 18 DEC 07:30 2014. CREATED: 16 DEC 07:11 2014

A2212/14 - CLOSURE/ALTN ROUTINGS: I) P574 NOT AVBL BTN MMV VOR AND DUBTA ALTN RTE: MMV VOR-DCT-ADKIT-POINT Z 0854N08626E-DCT-DUBTA-P574 (BIDIRECTIONAL) II) P761 NOT AVBL BTN MMV VOR AND IDASO ALTN RTE: MMV VOR - TR319/139DEG-53NM-TTP VOR-DCT- POINT A 142225N0800303E-DCT- GURAS-DCT-IDASO(BIDIRECTIONAL) III) P762 NOT AVBL BTN BIKEN AND DUGOS ALTN RTE: BIKEN-DCT-POINT Z 0854N08626E-DCT -DUGOS-P762 (BIRECTIONAL) IV) W20 NOT AVBL BTN MMV VOR AND BODEL ALTN RTE: MMV VOR- TR319/139DEG-53NM-TTP VOR- TR357/177DEG-81NM- BODEL (BIDIRECTIONAL) V) A465 NOT AVBL BTN MMV VOR AND DOKET ALTN RTE: MMV VOR-TR319/139DEG-53NM-TTP VOR- DCT- POINT A 142225N0800303E-DCT-DOKET (BIDIRECTIONAL) VI) ATS RTE N563,B466,Q10,Q11,V003,V004,V006,V008,V009 AND V011 NOT AVBL. GND - UNL) END PART 1 OF 2, 0330-0730, 18 DEC 03:30 2014 UNTIL 31 DEC 07:30 2014. CREATED: 03 DEC 16:49 2014

Цитироватьus2-star пишет:
Я очень-очень сильно удивлюсь если Индия сделает пилотируемый КК до 2024 года.  8)

Цитироватьus2-star пишет: 
Я очень-очень сильно удивлюсь если Индия сделает пилотируемый КК до 2024 года.  8)

Цитироватьhlynin пишет:
Я очень-очень сильно удивлюсь если Индия не сделает пилотируемый КК до 2020 года

ЦитироватьPaleopulo пишет:
Ну, это вряд ли. Они и сами про семь лет говорят. К 2022 - вполне реально. А к 20-му....

ЦитироватьLaunch Updates

Dec 17, 2014                                                          

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• 24 and a half hour countdown for the mission has commenced at 09:00 hrs (IST) on Dec 17, 2014
  

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• 24 and a half hour countdown for the mission will commence at 09:00 hrs (IST) on Dec 17, 2014
• Mission Readiness Review (MRR) and Launch Authorisation Board (LAB) met on Dec 16, 2014 to review progress of prelaunch activities and cleared launch for Dec 18, 2014 at 09:30 hrs (IST)
  

ЦитироватьДимитър пишет:
Bizonich пишет:
1. Орион.
2. Ангара 5.
3. Индийская капсула.
ИМХО.
Согласно последним заявленным датам:
1. Орион.
2. Индийская капсула.
3. Ангара 5.
Но индийцы свой полет уже много раз отлагали. Другим это только предстоит, ИМХО.

ЦитироватьWebcast will be available on Dec 18, 2014 from 09:00 hrs (IST)

Цитировать0357 GMT (10:57 p.m. EST on Wed.)
T-minus 3 minutes and counting. Pyrotechnic batteries have been activated, and on-board computers are in flight mode.

0355 GMT (10:55 p.m. EST on Wed.)
T-minus 5 minutes and counting. The final flight program has been loaded into the GSLV Mk. 3 rocket, and systems have been transitioned to internal battery power.

0352 GMT (10:52 p.m. EST on Wed.)
 T-minus 8 minutes and counting. Data recorders are being activated now.    
 
0351 GMT (10:51 p.m. EST on Wed.)
 T-minus 9 minutes and counting. The dummy cryogenic stage is configured for liftoff, and the automated countdown sequence is underway.
 
0350 GMT (10:50 p.m. EST on Wed.)
 T-minus 10 minutes and counting. The automated countdown sequence begins soon.
 
0349 GMT (10:49 p.m. EST on Wed.)
 "The launch operation sequence of the LVM-3X/CARE mission is authorized," says the mission director.
 
0348 GMT (10:48 p.m. EST on Wed.)
 T-minus 12 minutes and counting. The CARE module is reported ready for liftoff.
 
0347 GMT (10:47 p.m. EST on Wed.)
 T-minus 13 minutes and counting. The flight of the GSLV Mk. 3 and the CARE landing capsule will take about 19 minutes from liftoff from India's east coast to splashdown near the Andaman Islands. The vehicle will reach a top speed of nearly 12,000 mph and a peak altitude of 78 miles.
 
0346 GMT (10:46 p.m. EST on Wed.)
 T-minus 14 minutes and counting. Ground facilities are reported ready for liftoff.
 
0345 GMT (10:45 p.m. EST on Wed.)
 T-minus 15 minutes and counting. The GSLV Mk. 3 vehicle director confirms the launcher is ready for today's test flight.
 
0340 GMT (10:40 p.m. EST on Wed.)
 T-minus 20 minutes and counting. There are no problems reported in the countdown as the GSLV Mk. 3 launch team goes through their preflight checklist. The rocket is already full of propellant, with pre-packed solid fuel in the strap-on boosters, hypergolic propellant in the two-engine core, and gaseous nitrogen pumped aboard the dummy upper stage to simulate tanks full of cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to be used on future missions.
 
0330 GMT (10:30 p.m. EST on Wed.)
 T-minus 30 minutes and counting. The ISRO webcast is beginning now.
 
0300 GMT (10:00 p.m. EST on Wed.)
 One hour until launch. The official ISRO webcast of the countdown and liftoff begins in about 30 minutes.
 
0200 GMT (9:00 p.m. EST on Wed.)
 Two hours until launch.
The GSLV Mk. 3 rocket -- also called the LVM-3 -- is fueled for liftoff at 0400 GMT Thursday (11 p.m. EST Wednesday) from the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center on Sriharikota Island along India's east coast.
The launch vehicle is an all-new design with powerful solid rocket boosters and a core stage powered by two Vikas engines. The boosters are the second-most powerful solid rocket motors in operation after the strap-on rockets flying on Europe's Ariane 5 rocket.
The Vikas engines on the rocket's L110 core stage burn hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide propellants.
The rocket's twin strap-on S200 solid rocket boosters will fire at liftoff to propel the 630-metric ton (695-ton) launcher away from the space center. It will fly southeast from the launch site, passing the speed of sound in less than a minute as the boosters ramp up to more than 2 million pounds of total thrust.
The GSLV Mk. 3's liquid-fueled Vikas engines will ignite at T+plus 1 minute, 55 seconds at an altitude of nearly 27 miles (43 kilometers). The S200 solid rocket boosters will consume their pre-packed propellant a few seconds later before jettisoning from the launcher at T+plus 2 minutes, 29 seconds.
The rocket's 5-meter (16.4-foot) diameter payload fairing will separate at an altitude of 114 kilometers (71 miles) at T+plus 3 minutes, 52 seconds. The liquid-fueled core stage will switch off at T+plus 5 minutes, 17 seconds after reaching a top speed of nearly 12,000 mph (about 5.3 kilometers per second).
Three seconds later, the first stage will release from the GSLV Mk. 3's upper stage, which is flying in an inactive configuration on today's launch. On future missions, the stage will have an engine fueled by super-cold liquid hydrogen to send satellites into orbit.
The passenger on today's mission -- an 8,000-pound landing craft -- will separate from the launch vehicle at T+plus 5 minutes, 25 seconds.
The Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment, or CARE, will descend back to Earth from a peak altitude of 78 miles (126 kilometers). After its heat shield weathers temperatures near 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, the spacecraft will deploy a series of parachutes to slow it down before splashdown in the Bay of Bengal nearly 1,000 miles downrange from the launch site.
A 100-foot-diameter main parachute will unfurl to slow down the capsule before it hits the ocean about 19 minutes after liftoff. The Indian Coast Guard will recover the craft and return to land for inspections.

 
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2014
 Indian engineers are counting down to a test flight Thursday of a next-generation launcher to verify the performance of two powerful solid rocket motors, a twin-engine core booster and a prototype capsule designed for India's nascent human spaceflight program.
Read our full story (http://spaceflightnow.com/2014/12/17/powerful-new-indian-rocket-poised-for-suborbital-test-launch/).

Цитировать0402 GMT (11:02 p.m. EST on Wed.)
 T+plus 2 minutes, 40 seconds. Both solid rocket boosters have separated as planned, ISRO says.
 
0402 GMT (11:02 p.m. EST on Wed.)
 T+plus 2 minutes. The twin Vikas engines on the core stage have ignited.
 
0401 GMT (11:01 p.m. EST on Wed.)
 T+plus 60 seconds. With twin boosters producing 2 million pounds of thrust, the 14-story rocket has broken the speed of sound and is flying southeast from Sriharikota on a flight azimuth of 120 degrees.
 
0400 GMT (11:00 p.m. EST on Wed.)
 Liftoff of the GSLV Mk. 3, India's biggest-ever rocket!
 
0359 GMT (10:59 p.m. EST on Wed.)
 T-minus 60 seconds and counting. The rocket's self-destruct system, ignition systems and separation charges are being armed for liftoff. The launch pad's water system will be activated in the final seconds before launch to suppress acoustic energy from ignition of the rocket's two large solid rocket boosters.

Цитировать0405 GMT (11:05 p.m. EST on Wed.)
T+plus 5 minutes, 45 seconds. ISRO says the Vikas engines have shut down and the L110 first stage has separated. And the CARE prototype crew module has been released for its descent back to Earth.

0404 GMT (11:04 p.m. EST on Wed.)
T+plus 4 minutes. The L110 core stage is performing as expected.

Цитировать0410 GMT (11:10 p.m. EST on Wed.)
 The CARE module has started its parachute deployment sequence, ISRO says, indicating it has survived the period of peak heating.    
 
0408 GMT (11:08 p.m. EST on Wed.)
 T+plus 8 minutes. The CARE crew module, fitted with thrusters to control the first phase of its descent, has started its re-entry sequence. It carries a heat shield to protect it from temperatures of near 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Цитировать  ISRO  @isro    (https://twitter.com/isro)  ·     7 мин  7 минут назад  (https://twitter.com/isro/status/545431657415581698)  
 
LVM3 X / CARE Mission Update: Main parachutes of the CARE module deployed successfully.

Цитировать0413 GMT (11:13 p.m. EST on Wed.)
The capsule is now descending under its main parachute, according to ISRO. Splashdown is targeted about 900 miles downrange from the launch site near the Andaman Islands.

ЦитироватьSFN пишет:
Утопла? "высота -0,7км"  ;)

ЦитироватьДмитрий Инфан пишет:
надо поздравлять индийцев

Цитироватьazeast пишет:
Там и -12 км "высвечивалось", глубже чем Марианская впадина.  :)  

ЦитироватьПрол пишет:
Молодцы!
С телеметрией что-то напутали, но это не беда для первого раза  :)  .

ЦитироватьЧебурашка пишет:
А сколько у данной ракеты грузоподъёмность на низкую и геопереходные орбиты?

ЦитироватьЧебурашка пишет:

А сколько у данной ракеты грузоподъёмность на низкую и геопереходные орбиты?

Цитироватьoldleshy пишет:
ISRO выложили фото http://www.isro.org/gslv-mkiii-x/Imagegallery/launchvehicle.aspx

ЦитироватьLanista пишет:
Чойто он такой чистый?

ЦитироватьВиктор Левашов пишет:
судя по картинкам, на мой дилетантский взгляд, индийцы идут более по американскому пути, нежели по нашему, как китайцы.

ЦитироватьGrus пишет:
Ракета основана на европейских заделах Ariane 4. США им не хотят давать ракетные технологии и России мешают это делать. Корабль основан на проекте Boeing.

ЦитироватьLanista пишет:

ЦитироватьGrus пишет:
Ракета основана на европейских заделах Ariane 4. США им не хотят давать ракетные технологии и России мешают это делать. Корабль основан на проекте Boeing.

ВНИМАЕНИЕ! В посте эксперды!!

ЦитироватьBell пишет:

ЦитироватьLanista

пишет:

ЦитироватьGrus пишет:
Ракета основана на европейских заделах Ariane 4. США им не хотят давать ракетные технологии и России мешают это делать. Корабль основан на проекте Boeing.

ВНИМАЕНИЕ! В посте эксперды!!

Не любят Старого - пусть любят таких )))))))

Блин, тоже присоединяюсь к поздравлениям! Индусы молодцы.
Кстати, что там на счет КК?

Цитироватьm-s Gelezniak пишет:
- Скоро утонем от тaких.

ЦитироватьИндия успешно запустила новую ракету собственного производства
(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/114790.jpg)

GSLV Mark-III

Фото: ISRO





Индия запустила новую ракету-носитель собственного производства, аналогичную российским «Протону-М» и «Ангаре-А5». Об этом сообщает ресурс The Times Of India со ссылкой на Индийскую организацию космических исследований (ISRO).
Пуск состоялся в 09:31 по местному времени (07:01 по московскому) с космодрома на острове Шрихарикота. Новая ракета GSLV Mark-III оснащена криогенным двигателем индийского производства и способна выводить на геостационарную орбиту полезный груз весом до четырех тонн.
Ракета вывела на орбиту прототип спускаемого аппарата пилотируемого космического корабля. Аппарат массой около 3,5 тонны в штатном порядке отделился от носителя и после маневров на орбите на парашютах приводнился в Бенгальском заливе.
Криогенный двигатель, установленный на ракету, Индия испытала еще в 2007 году. Запуск ракеты с таким агрегатом в 2010 году не увенчался успехом. До этого страна шесть раз запускала ракеты с российскими криогенными двигателями.

ЦитироватьПолынь пишет:

Цитироватьhttp://lenta.ru/news/2014/12/18/ind/
Аппарат массой около 3,5 тонны в штатном порядке отделился от носителя и после маневров на орбите на парашютах приводнился в Бенгальском заливе.

ЦитироватьКриогенный двигатель, установленный на ракету, Индия испытала еще в 2007 году. Запуск ракеты с таким агрегатом в 2010 году не увенчался успехом. До этого страна шесть раз запускала ракеты с российскими криогенными двигателями..

ЦитироватьКриогенный двигатель, установленный на ракету, Индия испытала еще в 2007 году

Цитироватьpnetmon пишет:

ЦитироватьПолынь пишет:

Цитироватьhttp://lenta.ru/news/2014/12/18/ind/
Аппарат массой около 3,5 тонны в штатном порядке отделился от носителя и после маневров на орбите на парашютах приводнился в Бенгальском заливе.

А ISRO знает что аппарат выходил на орбиту и там маневрировал?
и что

ЦитироватьКриогенный двигатель, установленный на ракету, Индия испытала еще в 2007 году. Запуск ракеты с таким агрегатом в 2010 году не увенчался успехом. До этого страна шесть раз запускала ракеты с российскими криогенными двигателями..

со своей третьей ступенью в январе 2014 года успешно запустили версию 2

ЦитироватьКриогенный двигатель, установленный на ракету, Индия испытала еще в 2007 году

в 2007 году кажется был Российский двигатель?

ЦитироватьКриогенный двигатель, установленный на ракету, Индия испытала еще в 2007 году. Запуск ракеты с таким агрегатом в 2010 году не увенчался успехом. До этого страна шесть раз запускала ракеты с российскими криогенными двигателями.

ЦитироватьПервый успешный пуск ракеты с двигателями собственного производства состоялся в январе 2014 года. Тогда был запущен носитель GSLV Mark-II, рассчитанный на вывод на орбиту спутников массой до двух с половиной тонн.

Цитироватьно тогда 5 запусков с российским двигателем

ЦитироватьТеплотехник пишет:
pnetmon (http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/user/41036/) пишет

Цитироватьно тогда 5 запусков с российским двигателем

5. Шестой 12КРБ не летал. Кстати, у него срок хранения вышел, надо продлевать. А это денежки. Захотят ли их платить индусы или плюнут, имея ввиду свой РБ?