Индонезия рвется в космос

[Salo]

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/remote-indonesian-island-reaches-for-stars-by-playing-host-to-space-center/389916

Remote Indonesian Island Reaches for Stars by Playing Host to Space Center
Ismira Lutfia | August 06, 2010

Indonesia. The space agency this week moved a step forward in its plans to build an integrated space center on an island off the southwestern coast of Bengkulu province.

Adi Sadewo Salatun, the head of the Indonesian National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (Lapan), said the center would be built on Enggano Island in the Indian Ocean.

He was speaking at the signing of a memorandum of understanding at the Lapan-Bengkulu provincial administration office.

Adi said the island, in the outermost reaches of the archipelago, was the perfect spot for the country's launch pad because of its low population and remoteness.

"None of the neighboring provinces will be disturbed by our activities there," he said.

Adi said the site of the existing rocket launch site in Pameungpeuk, West Java, had become crowded and was no longer suitable for launching rockets bigger than the last one sent skyward, the RX-420.

Given the island's location, 110 nautical miles from the provincial capital of Bengkulu city, Adi said he was confident the project would not attract new settlers.

"This is a lesson that we learned from the Pameungpeuk site, which was sparsely populated when first set up but attracted settlers after it became established," he said.

M Nashsyah, the head of the Bengkulu Regional Planning Agency, said the administration welcomed Lapan's decision, adding the center would have a positive impact for the locals, especially in terms of technological development.

He said that in future, other countries might use Indonesian rockets to put their satellites into orbit. "It will make the island's and the province's names known to the world," Nashsyah said.

He claimed the noise generated from spaceport activities would not disrupt the island's 2,500 locals because the 200-hectare site was far from residential neighborhoods.

Adi added that the center would have quake-proof buildings and be built in an area of the island that was shielded from the danger of being swept by a tsunami. Enggano Island sits on one of the world's most active fault lines, where tremors and sometimes quakes are common. They are caused by the grinding of the Indo-Australia plate against the Eurasia plate.

Adi said the plan was also in line with Lapan's program to launch satellite-deploying rockets from 2012 to 2014.

Lapan launched the unmanned RX-420 in July last year from the Pameungpeuk site after it carried out a stationary test on the rocket in December 2008. The agency also launched two smaller RX-320 rockets in 2008.

The next rocket, the RX-550, is scheduled to be launched in 2012 and it will undergo static tests this year and in 2011.

Pos M Hutabarat, the head of research and development at the Ministry of Defense, said the space center, initially intended for civilian purposes, would be useful for the military in the future.

"We could use it for missile defense exercises and testing ballistic missiles with a distance of over 20 kilometers," he said.

Pos said such projectiles could be aimed toward the neighboring Mega Island, located further northwest from Enggano, to see the effects of the missiles' explosions.

He said the military had had trouble finding a remote area that was large enough to carry out ballistic missile tests over more than 20 km.

Adi said work on the site would start next year, with a start-up budget of about Rp 20 billion ($2.24 million) to build the launch pad and prepare it for the RX-550 suborbital test flight in 2012.

"But the construction will continue gradually to develop it into an integrated spaceport," he said. "But for the first launch pad we only need a space no bigger than the size of a football field."

By 2014, Lapan expects it will be able to launch the polar orbital flights of the RX-550 and RX-420 rockets from the new center.

Nashsyah said the regional administration would conduct a feasibility study, including an environmental impact analysis, before construction began.

"The Enggano Island spaceport will be one of the few satellite launch pads located along the equator," he said.

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Pos M Hutabarat, the head of research and development at the Ministry of Defense, said the space center, initially intended for civilian purposes, would be useful for the military in the future. "We could use it for missile defense exercises and testing ballistic missiles," he said.

:!:   :twisted:  Однако!

By 2014, Lapan expects it will be able to launch the polar orbital flights of the RX-550 and RX-420 rockets from the new center.

Вот это - да!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Aeronautics_and_Space

"At planning stage are the RX-420 with multiple customizable configuration boosters and the planned 520mm RX-520. The RX-520 is predicted to be able to launch 100 kg+ payload into orbit. This large rocket is intended to be fueled by high-pressure liquid. Hydrogen Peroxide and various hydrocarbons are under evaluation. Addition of RX-420 boosters to the RX-520 is calculated to increase lifting capacity to 500 kg+ payload, ...

Молодцы!

... although if too expensive, the proven Russian Soyuz and Energiya will likely be employed.
     

[SpaceR]

Димитър, Вы только обещалки и пиар с реальными делами не путайте - тут пока "молодцы!" кричать нечему.

[Димитър]

Молодцы, потому что ХОТЯТ.
И что-то все таки потихоньку делают.

Боюсь, что и ихняя ракета полетит раньше Ангары....

[Salo]

http://cybersecurity.ru/space/107756.html

Индонезия строит собственную космическую ракету[/size]

(19:50) 11.11.2010

Власти Индонезии сегодня анонсировали планы по строительству собственной космической ракеты, способной выводить в космос низкоорбитальные аппараты. Новая ракета должна будет выводить в космос аппараты на высоту до 200 километров. Индонезийское Национальное агентство по космосу и аэронавтике LAPAN сегодня объявило, что новая ракета RX-550 уже активно разрабатывается и первые статические тесты ее двигателей пройдут в декабре этого года, тогда как первый испытательный полет - в декабре 2012 года.

"Эта ракета будет состоять из четырех ступеней. Она будет похожа на ранее созданный прототип ракеты RPS-01, также предназначенной для вывода спутников", - говорит пресс-секретарь LAPAN Соэварто Хардхината.

LAPAN ранее протестировала ракеты RX-320 и RX-420, чьи компоненты также применяются для многоступенчатой ракеты RPS-01. "Кроме разработки собственных ракет, мы также ведем проекты по созданию спутников. Наша конечная цель - создать собственные ракеты и спутники", - говорит Соэварто.

Прежде в LAPAN был завершен проект по созданию спутника дистанционного зондирования Земли, в котором были впервые испробованы многие индонезийские технологии.

[Salo]

http://www.mcot.net/cfcustom/cache_page/128291.html

Lapan developing rockets to put satellites in orbit[/size]
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Jakarta, Nov 11 -- (ANTARA) - The National Aeronautics and Space Agency (LAPAN) is building a rocket named RX-550 with a cruising capacity of more than 200 kilometers in the initial phase of a project to make one capable of putting a satellite in orbit, a spokesman said.

LAPAN spokesman Soewarto Hardhienata said here on Thursday the RX-550 rocket would undergo a static test in December this year and a flight test in 2012.

"This one, which will consist of four stages, will be part of an RPS-01 rocket to put a satellite in orbit," Soewarto said.

He said LAPAN had earlier successfully tested the flights of RX-320 and RX-420 rockets whose components would be used to build a RPS-01 rocket to carry a satellite to an orbit around earth.

The rockets, he said, would be the prototypes of satellite carrying rockets to be launched in 2014.

"Besides developing home-made rockets, we are also doing a satellite making project. The aim is to have home-made rockets and satellites," Soewarto said.

He said LAPAN had in the past three years been implementing a project to make an earth surface monitoring satellite as part of its efforts to master satellite technology.

"The result was our Polar LAPAN-TUBSAT (LAPAN-A1) satellite created in cooperation with Germany," he said, adding that the satellite was successfully placed in orbit and until now still functioning well. (ANTARA)

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Надо им легкую Ангару впарить. Что ж это нам одним что ли мучаться?! Корейцы вон проглотили и ничего.

[ZOOR]

Неспешно они так в космос рвутся http://www.aprsaf.org/annual_meetings/aprsaf21/pdf/program/plenary/d3_1120_03_indonesia.pdf

 

 

 

А может и правильно. Небольшими, но выполняющимися задачами.

[pkl]

Димитър пишет:
Молодцы, потому что ХОТЯТ.
И что-то все таки потихоньку делают.

Боюсь, что и ихняя ракета полетит раньше Ангары....

Это надо в "Прогнозы".