Суборбитальный пуск СА – GSLV Mk III LVM3 – Шрихарикота SLP - 18.12.2014, 03:30 UTC

[Quoondо]

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

[Salo]

Уже первая половина декабря:
http://www.mobiletor.com/120089/gslv-mk-iii-may-ready-launch-first-half-december/

GSLV-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.

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/science/news/isro-to-test-crew-module-in-december-for-indias-first-human-space-flight-614360

Isro 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) 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.
 

[pkl]

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

Павлина, ага.

[Quoondо]

pkl пишет:

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

Павлина, ага.

ну не сразу же людям летать...?

[amadeys]

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

[Garixon]

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

местных любопытных это каких, обитателей Индийского океана?

[Alex_II]

pkl пишет:
Павлина, ага.

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

[ааа]

pkl пишет:

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

Павлина, ага.

Птичку жалко. GSLV с первого раза нормально не летают.

[pkl]

Alex_II пишет:

pkl пишет:
Павлина, ага.

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

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.

[Alex_II]

pkl пишет:
Слон туда не поместится.

Складывать надо уметь... А обезьяну в первый полет - жалко...

[pkl]

Слоника тоже жалко. Особенно складывать.

[sas]

pkl 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.

Вот мы его и вывели. За чем он понадобился нашим ракетчикам?

[Димитър]

Пуск уже на декабрь:

http://spaceflightnow.com/tracking/

December	[SIZE=-1] GSLV Mk.3  •  Atmospheric Test Flight[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-2]Launch time:[/SIZE][SIZE=-2] TBD[/SIZE]

[Salo]

О чём стало известно ещё два дня назад и на предыдущей странице:
http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/messages/forum10/topic14482/message1305128/#message1305128

[Salo]

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

В 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.

https://www.facebook.com/voennyparitet

[Quoondо]

Не могу не нарадоваться индусам

[Дмитрий Инфан]

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

В декабре Индия запустит беспилотный вариант космического корабля 
 

Ждём с нетерпением.

[Salo]

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/gslv-markiii-set-for-partial-test-flight/article6555732.ece

BANGALORE,  November 2, 2014  
GSLV Mark-III set for partial test flight
Madhumathi D. S.  

  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.

[Salo]

http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/experimental-flight-of-gslv-mark-3-in-december-isro-chief-114111100839_1.html

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

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.

[Salo]

http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/experimental-flight-of-gslv-mark-3-in-december-isro-chief-114111100839_1.html

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

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.