Indian Space Capabilities

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ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) provides mission support to low-earth orbit satellites as well as launch vehicle missions. ISTRAC has its headquarters and a multi-mission Spacecraft Control Centre at Bangalore. It has a network of ground stations at Bangalore, Lucknow, Sriharikota, Port Blair and Thiruvananthapuram in India besides stations at Mauritius, Bearslake (Russia), Brunei and Biak (Indonesia).

ISTRAC activities are organised into network operations, network augmentation, mission operation and spacecraft health monitoring, communications and computers and control centre facilities and development projects. Programme planning and reliability groups support ISTRAC activities.

The Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN), commissioned during the year 2008, at Byalalu village near Bangalore forms the Ground segment for providing deep space support for India's prestigious and first Lunar mission, the Chandrayaan-1.The technical facilities in IDSN include a 32 metre Deep Space Antenna, an 18 metre Antenna Terminal, an 11 metre Antenna Terminal, Indian Space Science Data Centre (ISSDC) and a Technical Services complex.

The IDSN is the first of its kind project in the country that provides ISRO the capability to handle deep space missions of India and also provides cross support to other deep space missions of external space agencies because of its inter-operable features and state-of-the-art capabilities.

 

[TejasMk3]

All set to put unmanned crew module into orbit - The Hindu



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.

 

[sathya]

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.


Wow, entire flight + decent with parachute , all takes only 20 minutes?

That's going to be one hell of a show..

 

[karan21]

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.


Wow, entire flight + decent with parachute , all takes only 20 minutes?

That's going to be one hell of a show..

I hope they put cameras at strategic locations on the rocket for a better view.

 

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[TejasMk3]

Thanks, was too lazy to use this new img posting system

 

[kurup]

Thanks, was too lazy to use this new img posting system

I have used the old image tagging system ..... it is back ...

 

[karan21]

Looks good. I hope this achieves the desired perimeters.

 

[TejasMk3]

I have used the old image tagging system ..... it is back ...

Ahhh okay!

 

[Daedalus]

India to Push Next Space Frontier, With Launch of Crew Module in mid-December

 

[Water Car Engineer]

ISRO's crew module, named CARE, which will be launched on board the GSLV-Mark III in mid-December.

 

[Juggernautjatt]

GSAT-16 launch on Dec 5 aims at improving telecom services
Shubhadeep Choudhury
Tribune News Service
Bangalore, November 29

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Indian Space Research Oraganisation’s (ISRO) communication satellite GSAT-16 is all set for launch from Kourou in French Guiana on December 5. The satellite aims at increasing the number of transponders that in turn enhance the satellite-based telecommunication, television, VSAT services in India.

ISRO has hired the French company Arianespace for launching the satellite. The satellite will be launched into a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) by Ariane-5 VA-221 launch vehicle. After its injection into the orbit, ISRO’s Master Control Facility (MCF) at Hassan in Karnataka will take control of the satellite and perform the initial orbit raising manoeuvres using its Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM). Finally, it will be placed in the vicinity of circular geostationary orbit.
Following this, the deployment of appendages such as solar panels, antennas and three axis stabilisation of the satellite will be performed.

With 48 transponders, GSAT-16 has the potential of carrying to the space more transponders than what the other ISRO’s communication satellites have been able to achieve to date. The satellite will have 12 Ku band transponders each with 36 MHz usable bandwidth with a footprint covering the Indian mainland and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

About the satellite

• • GSAT-16 will be the 11th among GSAT series of Indian communication satellites and will have a lifespan of 12 years
  • It is similar to GSAT-15 with each satellite weighing 3,150 kg and having power generation capacity of 6.8 kW
  • GSAT-16 will offer 24 transponders in the C-band, 12 in the extended C-band and another 12 in the Ku band
  • The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation

 

[sathya]

that ll increase the total number of transponder to 248

 

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[sathya]

Why the payload looks inverted ?

So that it can face earth when released ?