Coast Guard ship recovers ISRO's crew module from sea

[RPK]

Coast Guard ship recovers ISRO's crew module from sea | Brahmand News


CHENNAI (PTI): Few hours after ISRO successfully launched the GSLV Mk III rocket from Sriharikota, which separated an unmanned crew module at an altitude of around 126 km, an Indian Coast Guard ship recovered the three-tonne weighing module, which had safely descended in the Bay of Bengal off Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

A Coast Guard ship, ICGS Samudra Paheredar, with ISRO officials on board, recovered the crew module along with its divers on board, after a Dornier aircraft from Campbell Bay of Great Nicobar Island signaled her about its location while carrying out a surveillance in the area around 9.45 am Thursday, an official release said.

The helicopter, on board the ship, earlier carried out a pollution test in the area, it said.

The ship equipped with advance telemetry system from ISRO for tracking the crew module had provided range clearance for safe landing of the module on December 16.

"The ship has tracked the crew module during its passage from launch to its re-entry and its subsequent landing at sea," the release said.

Inching towards realising India's ambition to send humans into space, ISRO on Thursday successfully tested an unmanned crew module recovery from space, even as it tested the two stages of its heaviest launch vehicle GSLV Mk III from Sriharikota.

The rocket lifted off at 9.30 am from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, separated the crew module at an altitude of 126 km, which descended safely on the waters of Bay of Bengal, some 180 km from Indira Point, the southern tip of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

 

[TejasMk3]

Here is a pic with the guys on a boat.

 

[TheFlyingPretzel]

If only SUPARCO were half of ISRO.

 

[Hyperion]

The only similarity between SUPARCO and ISRO are two letters, 'R' and 'O'........ which may stand in SUPARCO's case as 'R for Rona' and 'O for Oh-Ho'!

If only SUPARCO were half of ISRO.

 

[nair]

The only similarity between SUPARCO and ISRO are two letters, 'R' and 'O'........ which may stand in SUPARCO's case as 'R for Rona' and 'O for Oh-Ho'!

It always surprises me why SUPARCO has not moved further, especially when Pakistan is able to develop several capable missiles....... (but i guess if we discuss that here it can turn in to a measuring contest and usual tu tu mein mein )

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Here is a pic with the guys on a boat.

Pretty intact, except the paint is gone - which is expected. The interiors will matter. One step closer to a human space flight.

 

[Hyperion]

The problem is SUPARCO is no longer given any budget..... all other 'rocket' projects have been militarized... we had a lengthy discussion regarding R&D few days back with Oscar, trust you me, the research is in full swing, however, the model is different from yours open source one. Think of it this way, anything that can fly and has a rocket behind it comes under the purview of Military Labs. Think along the lines of Skunk Works, although the latter is part of a commercial organization, but secret nonetheless.

It always surprises me why SUPARCO has not moved further, especially when Pakistan is able to develop several capable missiles....... (but i guess if we discuss that here it can turn in to a measuring contest and usual tu tu mein mein )

 

[nair]

The problem is SUPARCO is no longer given any budget..... all other 'rocket' projects have been militarized... we had a lengthy discussion regarding R&D few days back with Oscar, trust you me, the research is in full swing, however, the model is different from yours open source one. Think of it this way, anything that can fly and has a rocket behind it comes under the purview of Military Labs. Think along the lines of Skunk Works, although the latter is part of a commercial organization, but secret nonetheless.

Probably our approach was, Make a rocket and use the technology to develop a missile...... But in your case, Make a Missile then lets see if we can make a rocket out of it......

 

[scrumpy]

Was the parachute jettissoned before splash down? Where is the door to this thing?

 

[Hyperion]

Exactly. All our civilian space progress is derived directly from our military applications. Think of it like this, you are working on U.S. model to a degree (though yours is even more open, as I've seen from your CARE module as most specs are online), and we on the former USSR model. That's a much better way of putting the difference between our two programs.

Another limiting factor that haunts our progress is, that our people will do NOTHING if India doesn't do it. Now that you have AGNI-5, this will get us something similar to that, plus as side benefit for the very first time we will have a SLV in chanda (a byproduct)!

Probably our approach was, Make a rocket and use the technology to develop a missile...... But in your case, Make a Missile then lets see if we can make a rocket out of it......

 

[TheFlyingPretzel]

Exactly. All our civilian space progress is derived directly from our military applications. Think of it like this, you are working on U.S. model to a degree (though yours is even more open, as I've seen from your CARE module as most specs are online), and we on the former USSR model. That's a much better way of putting the difference between our two programs.

Another limiting factor that haunts our progress is, that our people will do NOTHING if India doesn't do it. Now that you have AGNI-5, this will get us something similar to that, plus as side benefit for the very first time we will have a SLV in chanda (a byproduct)!

SUPARCO's still years away from an SLV. But I agree with your post, nonetheless. The moment India makes a particular accomplishment, Pakistan swings into full action trying to emulate their success.

 

[Hyperion]

SUPARCO isn't years away from SLV.... they'll get it as a gift from the military to test-drive the system.

SUPARCO's still years away from an SLV. But I agree with your post, nonetheless. The moment India makes a particular accomplishment, Pakistan swings into full action trying to emulate their success.

 

[ptltejas]

This is the official video of ISRO's Space Capsule Recovery Experiment, conducted in 2007. The CARE(Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment) of ISRO is similar to SCRE, and it will be conducted in December, 2014.

The video rights goes to ISRO, no copyright infringement intended

And photographs

 

[TejasMk3]

Pretty intact, except the paint is gone - which is expected. The interiors will matter. One step closer to a human space flight.

I was quite surprised about how clean it looked, but then some people have pointed out that the descent was at about 5 Km/s which would not cause that much "burn marks" plus...maybe the water splash down might have removed it

Anyway complete set of pics (I think!) are out now:

 

[proud_indian]

This is the official video of ISRO's Space Capsule Recovery Experiment, conducted in 2007. The CARE(Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment) of ISRO is similar to SCRE, and it will be conducted in December, 2014.

The video rights goes to ISRO, no copyright infringement intended

And photographs

why did it take isro 7 years to carry out another crew module test after the first successful mission?

Is the the absence of launch vehicle or something else?