India will launch a climate satellite tv for pc subsequent month with its heavy rocket,
the geosynchronous satellite tv for pc launch car (GSLV-Mk II), Indian area
company chief A.R. Kiran Kumar stated in Chennai on Friday.
The Indian Space
Research Organisation (Isro) will launch INSAT-3DR subsequent month with its
GSLV rocket, stated Kiran Kumar on the Madras Institute of Technology
Alumni Association assembly in Chennai.
He additionally stated Isro is concentrating on to
improve the variety of its satellite tv for pc and rocket launches from the
present six-eight per yr to 12-18 per yr.
Vikram Sarabhai
Space Centre (VSSC) director U. Sivan stated that Isro may also be
launching ScatSat – a climate monitoring and forecasting satellite tv for pc –
with polar satellite tv for pc launch car (PSLV).
Talking to reporters
on the sidelines of the occasion, he stated that the Indian satellite tv for pc shall be
a co-passenger to an Algerian satellite tv for pc.
“Both the satellites
shall be put into totally different orbits. So the fourth stage/engine of the
rocket might be switched off after ejecting ScatSat first. Then after a
hole of round half-hour, the engine shall be switched on and put the
Algerian satellite tv for pc into its meant orbit,” Sivan stated.
According
to him, the yr finish is predicted to see the launch of GSLV-Mk-III with
communication satellite tv for pc GSAT 19 weighing round A.P ton – the heaviest
satellite tv for pc to be lifted by an Indian rocket from the Sriharikota rocket
port in Andhra Pradesh.
Sivan additionally stated Isro will quickly be testing its scramjet or air respiration engine to be used future use to energy Indian rockets.
The
scramjet engine used solely through the atmospheric part of the rocket’s
flight will assist in bringing down the launch value by decreasing the quantity
of oxidiser to be carried together with the gasoline.
from Isro to Launch INSAT-3DR Weather Satellite in August – NDTV
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