More detailed information about India’s future Space Missions

Indian’s proud space agency has shown the world what it can do. Chandrayaan 1 is an overwhelming success, not only for ISRO, but for each and every Indians. Many years before, India was denied many advanced technologies by many other countries. Now, we are capable of developing over own technology.

After Chandrayaan 1, ISRO has many innovative plans. Chandrayaan 2 which is an India-Russian joint space mission is all set to kick off on 2012. Mr. Madhavan Nair said that the design for Chandrayaan 2 is ready. Mission is to send a rover to the surface of the moon. The rover will collect the samples from Moon’s surface and analyse it in Moon itself.

In 2013, ISRO is also planning to send spacecraft to Mars. Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is considered as the work horse of ISRO. But, Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle will be used to send space craft to Mars. On the same year, an Indian will be sent to space by Russia.Now, Mission to Mars is under planning only.

In 2015, ISRO is planning to develop an own spacecraft to put two Indian Astronauts into space for a seven  day mission.

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India’s Indigenous Cryogenic Engine tested successfully

Indian Space Research Organisation has successfully tested it’s indigenously designed Cryogenic Engine at Mehendragiri, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu. Cryogenic engines used before are Russian one. US and Russia only had self developed cryogenic engine. This new cryogenic engine will be used in GSLV D-3 mission next year.

Cryogenic engines are rocket motors designed for liquid fuels that have to be held at very low ‘cryogenic’ temperatures, as they would otherwise be gas at normal temperatures.

Normally used fuels are hydrogen and oxygen which are held at a low temperature of  20 Kelvin and 80 Kelvin respectively to remain in liquid form. The cryogenic engine develops a thrust of 73 kilo Newtons (kN) in vacuum with a specific impulse of 454 seconds (7.56 minutes) and can carry 2.2 tonnes.

Working on a staged combustion cycle with an integrated turbo-pump, the engine will have 42,000 rotations per minute (rpm). It also has two steering engines developing a thrust of 2 kN each to enable three-axis control of the launch vehicle during the flight mission.

The cryogenic engine will be integrated with propellant tanks, stage structures and associated feed lines of the launch vehicle for the flight mission in April next from the spaceport at Sriharikota, about 80 km north of Chennai.

The central government Friday approved the development of semi-cryogenic engines for space transportation at a cost of Rs.1,798 crore (approx Rs.18 billion) with a foreign exchange component of Rs.588 crore (Rs.5.88 billion).The semi-cryogenic engines will facilitate applications for future space missions like the reusable launch vehicle, the unified launch vehicle and the vehicle for inter-planetary missions.

(With IANS inputs)

Four New Nuclear Reactors in Kudankulam

Kudankulam is a small place in the southern part of Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, South India. Two nuclear reactors are under construction in the site. The project is joint venture of Nuclear Corporation of India and Russia. The first reactor is expected to start it’s production by the early months of 2009.

Additionally four new reactors are being planned for construction. The agreement for construction will be signed by the two countries in few days. Once, completed this plan will produce 40 % of India’s total Nuclear Power.

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Only two more instruments to be made operational, says Madhavan Nair

ISRO Chairman Mr. G. Madhavan Nair meet the press people yesterday at the Airport. He said that all the major operations related to Chandrayaan 1 Mission is completed. 9 of 11 payloads has been successfully turned on. The remaining two payloads will be activated this week.

The two science instruments of the U.S. aboard the spacecraft had become operational and they would start sending data within a week. He also said that everything is going as planned.

Mr. Nair said that with the terrain mapping camera of the Moon Impact Probe (MIP), stereoscopic pictures of the moon would be available, which, in turn, would help to have a better understanding of the height and shape of craters on the lunar surface.

“We are the only country to obtain pictures from such a closer distance. We have got pictures with a resolution of five metres followed by a Japanese probe which secured pictures only with a resolution of 10 metres,” he said.Mr. Nair said the ISRO was planning to launch Chandrayaan-2 in 2012, a mission in which a robot would be sent to collect samples from the lunar surface and conduct tests. In 2015, it would conduct a spacewalk and the man mission to the Moon would be launched only after it. After completing the Chandrayaan series, the ISRO would be going in for a mission to Mars and the steps for it had started. A blueprint of this project was expected to be out only after four or five years, he added.