Indian Space Capabilities

[karan21]

Ukraine is developing the engine for the Indian launch vehicle, the press service of the government of the country. "The implementation of the joint Ukrainian-Indian project" Jasmine ", which aims to develop a rocket engine for the Indian launch vehicle for space purposes," - said in a statement.

Prospects of cooperation in the space sector discussed the Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine Alexander Pinsky and chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

The Indian side expressed its support for the holding in Kyiv in 2016. International Astronautical Congress. Head ISRO has confirmed that in the near future to complete the formation of the Indian bilateral working group on space, and Indian experts will focus on Ukraine to concretization of bilateral cooperation programs.

From 19 to 22 March, the Ukrainian delegation headed by A.Pinskim was in India as part of the second meeting of the working group on trade and economic cooperation in the Intergovernmental Ukrainian-Indian Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technical, Industrial and Cultural Cooperation.

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Which engine and which launch vehicle?? Never heard of this before. India is alreay building cryogenic engiens and semi cryogenic for the big rockets in the future.

 

[S-DUCT]

Which engine and which launch vehicle?? Never heard of this before. India is alreay building cryogenic engiens and semi cryogenic for the big rockets in the future.

Ukraine is ahead of us in semi-cryogenic engines,as they have inherited these tech from Soviet union.
ISRO should develope SC engines with ukraine assitance as they the world's most powerful SC engine RD-170 for Booster stage of our RLV-TD

 

[BlueDot_in_Space]

Mate am I right about operation of Avatar SSTO?

1)It would take-off horizontally using conventional turbo-rocket.After it has reached cruise speed of mach 1-1.2, vehicle would use DMRJ dual mode ramjet-scramjet engine to accelerate to mach 3-10.

2)During this cruising phase, an on-board system would collect air from the atmosphere, from which liquid oxygen would be separated and stored. The liquid oxygen collected then would be used in the final flight phase when the rocket engine(turbo-rocket) burns the collected liquid oxygen and the carried hydrogen to attain orbit.

The first part would be very much the same, but I cannot say much about liquification. There is no indication of liquid oxygen separation system in ISRO literature. May be after a decade, ISRO might start such a program because APJ Sir has hinted such a system as a requirement for SSTO.

 

[karan21]

@BlueDot_in_Space Bro any updates about the space suit?? Bro when are you going to show the pics of the suit??

 

[S-DUCT]

Key Attributes

HTV(HYPERSONIC TEST VEHICLE)
1)Gross takeoff weight :3500kg.
2)Unmanned,fully reusable.
3)Horizontal takeoff & Horizontal landing.

@BlueDot_in_Space:
Here are some Preliminary designs of an In-flight Air-liquefaction and Oxygen seperation System for HTV (Hypersonic Test Vehicle).These papers were presented during "High Speed Transatmospheric Air and Space Transportation” organised by the Aeronautical & Astronautical Societies of India on June 29-30, 2007.

 

[S-DUCT]

Successful ignition of indigenous cryogenic engine - The Hindu

Successful ignition of an indigenous cryogenic engine on Wednesday at Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu’s Kanyakumari district, in conditions simulating the high altitude atmosphere, has boosted the confidence of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to go ahead with the launch of a Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D5) in July.

The hot-test took place in the newly-built high altitude test facility (HAT) at ISRO’s Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) at Mahendragiri.

“The test was held at 7.55 p.m. on Wednesday, simulating the high altitude conditions to see whether ignition of the indigenously developed cryogenic engine takes place smoothly, as per the expected temperature, pressure and flow parameters,” said Director of LPSC M.C. Dathan.

“The ignition was perfect and it gave all the parameters as per our predictions and it has given us an excellent confidence to go ahead with the GSLV-D5 launch from Sriharikota in July,” he noted. The engine, which uses liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen as propellants and develops a thrust of 7.5 tonnes, powers the GSLV’s upper stage.

With the successful test, the indigenous cryogenic engine would be fully assembled and the cryogenic stage itself delivered at Sriharikota in a month’s time. “Once it reaches Sriharikota, it may take more than two months to fully assemble the vehicle and conduct all tests. So we are planning to launch the GSLV-D5 in the second half of July,” said Mr. Dathan.

GSLV-D5, with the indigenous cryogenic engine, will put into orbit a communication satellite called GSAT-14.

Mr. Dathan said the HAT facility was realised in a record time of one year. “This facility is a unique one in the country for testing cryogenic engines, simulating the high altitude conditions.”

The launch of a GSLV-D3 with an indigenous cryogenic engine in April 2010 ended in failure. Although the engine ignited in vacuum in space, the ignition could not be sustained.

 

[sudhir007]

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Ukraine is developing the engine for the Indian launch vehicle, the press service of the government of the country. "The implementation of the joint Ukrainian-Indian project" Jasmine ", which aims to develop a rocket engine for the Indian launch vehicle for space purposes," - said in a statement.

Prospects of cooperation in the space sector discussed the Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine Alexander Pinsky and chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.

The Indian side expressed its support for the holding in Kyiv in 2016. International Astronautical Congress. Head ISRO has confirmed that in the near future to complete the formation of the Indian bilateral working group on space, and Indian experts will focus on Ukraine to concretization of bilateral cooperation programs.

From 19 to 22 March, the Ukrainian delegation headed by A.Pinskim was in India as part of the second meeting of the working group on trade and economic cooperation in the Intergovernmental Ukrainian-Indian Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technical, Industrial and Cultural Cooperation.

 

[S-DUCT]

I have compiled some info on HTV using http://www.aesi-hyd.com/hypersonic_conference/contents/Souvenir_June_2007.pdf

OBJECTIVE
It was seen that the minimum take-off weight of 25T with 4% Payload fraction required for SSTO hyperplanes(AVATAR).But before achieving this,many critical systems and design elements would require experimental ground and In-flight testings.

For this purpose,a small (3.5T take-off WT),unmanned,Non-orbital Hypersonic transportation technology demonstater vechicle has been designed.

OPERATION
1)HTV will use light weight,dual fuel (Kerosene-hydrogen) turbojet for takeoff and at altitude of 30Kms Altitude Hydrogen fuelled DMRJ would take over it for hypersonic cruise for more than half an hour.HTV will descend by Aerodynamic braking and finally would use Turbojet engine for landing.

2)In later flight tests,HTV will be equiped with In-flight air collection and oxygen liquefication system,i.e FLOX system (It's essential to maximize payload fractions to LEO by SSTO vehicles).This is also called "Aerobic" system.

@BlueDot_in_Space:Mate, It looks like AVATAR will have in-flight LOX separation system.

 

[BlueDot_in_Space]

I have compiled some info on HTV using http://www.aesi-hyd.com/hypersonic_conference/contents/Souvenir_June_2007.pdf

OBJECTIVE
It was seen that the minimum take-off weight of 25T with 4% Payload fraction required for SSTO hyperplanes(AVATAR).But before achieving this,many critical systems and design elements would require experimental ground and In-flight testings.

For this purpose,a small (3.5T take-off WT),unmanned,Non-orbital Hypersonic transportation technology demonstater vechicle has been designed.

OPERATION
1)HTV will use light weight,dual fuel (Kerosene-hydrogen) turbojet for takeoff and at altitude of 30Kms Altitude Hydrogen fuelled DMRJ would take over it for hypersonic cruise for more than half an hour.HTV will descend by Aerodynamic braking and finally would use Turbojet engine for landing.

2)In later flight tests,HTV will be equiped with In-flight air collection and oxygen liquefication system,i.e FLOX system (It's essential to maximize payload fractions to LEO by SSTO vehicles).This is also called "Aerobic" system.

@BlueDot_in_Space:Mate, It looks like AVATAR will have in-flight LOX separation system.

Gr8 Info, Thanks!!!. So it seems that second phase of AVATAR will be using in flight LOX separation system. It would take some time to develop these techs and that is why multiple efforts like RLV-TD, HSTDV and HTV are running in India for the purpose of developing technologies for hyperplanes. We can hope to see RLV-TD and HSDTV flights within 1-2 years.

 

[S-DUCT]

Gr8 Info, Thanks!!!. So it seems that second phase of AVATAR will be using in flight LOX separation system. It would take some time to develop these techs and that is why multiple efforts like RLV-TD, HSTDV and HTV are running in India for the purpose of developing technologies for hyperplanes. We can hope to see RLV-TD and HSDTV flights within 1-2 years.

If you don't mind,Why HS9 booster in your avatar has weird flame colour ,is it photoshopped?

 

[BlueDot_in_Space]

If you don't mind,Why HS9 booster in your avatar has weird flame colour ,is it photoshopped?

the pic in my avatar is a CG.

 

[kurup]

So they are testing two wind tunnel models for RLV. Did they selected the final congfig ??

Also , Isn't the size of the wing too small compared to the fuselage ??

 

[arp2041]

DOCUMENTARY ON DR. VIKRAM SARABHAI

 

[S-DUCT]

RLV-TD program Update:02

Wind Tunnel test of 1:1 model of FADS, Balloon Test of qualification
model of Radar Altimeter, Iron Bird Simulation test of Control actuators and Control electronics, Vibration test of avionics bay module in flight configuration and dynamic characterization testing of Avionic bay – Engineering model sub assembly were completed.

Iron Bird facility: This facility is second of its kind in the country
to simulate the actual flight profiles using the actuators, control electronics, the entire NGC hardware with built in NGC
software. The actual flight hydraulic lines will be truly represented and the control surface actuator movements also will
be simulated. This facility is used to carry out the Actuator in Loop Simulation runs for RLV-TD.

 

[BlueDot_in_Space]

So they are testing two wind tunnel models for RLV. Did they selected the final congfig ??

Also , Isn't the size of the wing too small compared to the fuselage ??

They have selected the yellow config. Wing size is sufficient for producing required lift to maneuver to a landing site.