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India's private sector rocket makes successful beginning with Skyroot's Vikram-S
Weighing 545 kg, the six-metre-long rocket on a sub-orbital mission carried three payloads from Space Kidz India, Bazoomq Armenia, and N-Space Tech India. The rocket was made with carbon fibre and four 3D printed engines and its single stage was powered by solid fuel. At about 11.30 a.m., Vikram-S flew away from ISRO's sounding rocket launch pad at ISRO's rocket port in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
Vikram-S rocket set to fly off on Friday, leaving some questions unanswered
"The countdown will begin three hours before the rocket's lift off. The rocket is expected to lift off at 11.30 a.m. on Friday. The countdown time is less as it is a small rocket," a senior official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) told IANS. Further, the single-stage rocket is powered with solid fuel which has also cut down the countdown time.
ISRO all set to launch first-ever private rocket
Jitendra Singh said that the non-government entity, startup Skyroot Aerospace Pvt Ltd (SAPL) has developed the Vikram-suborbital (VKS) rocket, which is a single stage spin stabilised solid propellant rocket with mass of approx 550 kg. He said, the rocket goes to the max altitude of 101 km and splashes into the sea and the overall duration of launch is 300 seconds only.
India's defunct surveillance satellite RISAT-2 hits Indian Ocean near Jakarta
The 300 kg RISAT-2, a surveillance satellite, was launched on April 20, 2009, using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The satellite with a design life of four years had initially carried 30 kg of fuel for operations in the space.
From Rohini to LVM3, ISRO's changing policy for rocket names
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) could have done better in naming the rocket that will compete with the likes of Ariane, and Falcon rockets in the global market with a better name than the unimaginative LVM3 is the general view gleaned by IANS.
ISRO plans Sun and Moon missions in 2023 as well as commercial ones
Speaking to the reporters here Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S. Somanath said integration tests are happening with regard to the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft. He said the space agency will look at June 2023 for the moon mission. The ISRO is also planning to have its mission to the sun with its satellite Aditya-L1, a coronagraphy spacecraft to study the solar atmosphere, an official told IANS.
In historic flight, Indian rocket puts 'OneWeb' satellites into orbit
With this, India has put one more rocket to compete in the global commercial satellite launch market. The 43.5 metre tall and weighing 644 ton LVM3 M2 rocket, carrying 36 satellites weighing totally 5,796 kg or about 5.7 ton, blasted off from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 12.07 a.m. With the thick orange flame at its tail, the rocket lit up the clear midnight sky, and growling it went up.
OneWeb pays about Rs 2,000 cr to India for launching 72 satellites
Speaking to reporters here, Sunil Mittal Bharti, Chairman, OneWeb said the company will be paying Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) about Rs 1,000 crore for launching 36 satellites with its LVM3 rocket on Sunday at 12.07 a.m. OneWeb will also use ISRO's another LVM3 rocket in January to launch 36 satellites.
Much more rides on India's Bahubali rocket than 36 OneWeb satellites
India's heavy lift rocket the about 640 ton Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle MkIII (GSLV MkIII) was nicknamed as 'Bahubali' when it flew with the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft. On Sunday, the rocket renamed as LVM3 M2 will on a historic mission of carrying 36 OneWeb satellites weighing about six ton to sling them in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
India can fill the slot in global commercial satellite launch market: ISRO Chairman
He also said India is planning to ramp up production of the LVM3 rocket. "There is a shortage of commercial satellite launch vehicles for putting into orbit multiple satellites to form a constellation. The Russian rockets are not in consideration now. Further the Ariane 6 rocket of Arianespace got delayed. The commercial potential of Chinese rockets is not accepted by the West. Hence India has a slot now," Somanath told IANS.
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