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

[Димитър]

Кто слетит первый? Индийский КК, пробный Орион, или Ангара-5?
Ставки будут? 

[Bizonich]

1. Орион.
2. Ангара 5.
3. Индийская капсула.
ИМХО.

[Дмитрий Инфан]

ИМХО, куда интересней узнать, когда полетит индийский космонавт. И иранский.  

[Garixon]

Дмитрий Инфан пишет:
ИМХО, куда интересней узнать, когда полетит индийский космонавт. И иранский.    

Индия 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.

правда ввиду отсутствия чёткой пилотируемой программы эти слова не стоит пока воспринимать всерьёз, что касаемо Ирана, то глядя на их столь нерегулярные пуски и грузоподъёмность носителей, и более частые суборбитальные пуски капсул с животными, разговор может пока идти всё таки именно об суборбитальном полёте, а ихние манифесты не более чем пропагандой

[Димитър]

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.  

[Bizonich]

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

То-то и оно, поэтому и поставил Ангару на второе место.

[Salo]

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=15187.msg1289110#msg1289110
 

[Bizonich]

Какая-то она мелкая. На одного чтоль? Или это уменьшенный прототип?

[che wi]

Картинки/фото разного срока давности с просторов интернета:


 

[Salo]

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/all-set-to-put-unmanned-crew-module-into-orbit/article6631187.ece

Upd ated: November 25, 2014 02:12 IST
All se t to put unmanned crew module into orbit T. S. Subramanian
 
    
 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.

[Bizonich]

che wi пишет:
Картинки/фото разного срока давности с просторов интернета:

Спасибо, теперь понятно. Все равно, тесновато как-то.

[Salo]

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/india-to-push-next-space-frontier-with-launch-of-crew-module-in-mid-december-627603

India 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

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.

[Salo]

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=28405.msg1293871;boardseen#new

abhishek 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

[Salo]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/To-put-man-in-space-Isro-to-test-crew-module-in-December/articleshow/45321894.cms

To 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.
 
 
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.

[Salo]

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=28405.msg1294574#msg1294574
 

[Salo]

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[Salo]

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=28405.msg1294927#msg1294927
 

[Луноход]

Не хотелось бы на таком на орбиту лететь.