ISRO successfully launch Space Shuttle RLV-TD HEX-01 (Suborbital) on May 23, 2016

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May 13 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai)
Isro to test launch India's first spaceplane on May 23
Srinivas Laxman
Mumbai:


India's first reusable launch vehicle (RLV) or spaceplane will see it's first test launch from Sriharikota on May 23 at 9.30 am.
An Isro official told TOI that the mission readiness review gave the go ahead for the technology demonstration flight on Tuesday . He added that the final preparations for the much-awaited launch will kick off on Thursday night.
The 1.7-metric tonne, 6.5metre-long spaceplane will initially be carried by a special booster up to a certain point, where it will separate. After this, it will fly to a height of 70 km, zoom back to earth and splash down in the Bay of Bengal.
Emphasizing that the forthcoming mission was just a “baby step“ in the development of the reusable launch vehicle technology , the official said, “The total flight time from launch to splashdown is about 10 minutes.'' An official Isro document described the mission as “the first step towards a fully reusable launch vehicle for low cost access to space.“

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[Sarkar]

RLV-TD HEX-01 (Suborbital), May 23, 2016

If US, Russia can do that then we can also do it. [emoji106]

 

[rahul1117kumar]

ISRO all set to launch first ‘Made in India’ space shuttle

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to launch the first even ‘Made in India’ space shuttle, which seems to be a significant step towards developing a full-fledged reusable launch vehicle. The space shuttle will be launched on Monday from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.

The space shuttle develop with a delta wings and angled tail fins which will fly into space and can be reused. The idea of launching the vehicle with delta wings will also help cut cost of satellite launches upto 10 times. In manned missions the ISRO is likely to use an advanced version of the vehicle.

In the hypersonic test flight, the space shuttle is fitted with a solid strap-on thruster which will take of vertically like a rocket at five times the speed of sound to reach an altitude of 70 km. After ascent, the vehicle will take a 180 degree turn before re-entry.

But on its descent, the shuttle will have a controlled splashdown in the Bay of Bengal and will not land like an aircraft. The shuttle will also be tested subsequently and the entire test flight will take about 10 minutes.

K Sivan, director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, said it will take at least a decade to have a full-scale reusable launcher, which will land like an aircraft and can be recovered and reused.

The first test flight will be a flying test bed to evaluate three of the basic technologies involved in the development of the shuttle. The design include aero-thermo dynamic charaacterisation of the winged re-entry body, its autonomous mission management to land at a specified location and its hot structures or the heat shield that protects the vehicle during high temperature.

After 45 km of movement the boosters will seperate from the shuttle and will fall in Bay of Bengal, while the vehicle moves ahead to reach 70 km before it glides down.

It is after six years that a space organisation is testing India’s first flight for a reusable launch vehicle. Earlier it was NASA who grounded its reusbale launch shuttle in 2011.

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[ssjambla]

RE: ISRO all set to launch first ‘Made in India’ space shuttle

Way to go isro...jai hind

 

[Sai Jai]

RE: ISRO all set to launch first ‘Made in India’ space shuttle

yep Jai Ho ISRO :clapluv:win ..

 

[shawl_who]

RE: ISRO all set to launch first ‘Made in India’ space shuttle

yes.. India will soon be space leader of d entire world :nj :win

 

[Sai Jai]

RE: ISRO all set to launch first ‘Made in India’ space shuttle

yes.. India will soon be space leader of d entire world :nj :win

yep but still long way to go :nj ..

 

[Sarkar]

RE: ISRO all set to launch first ‘Made in India’ space shuttle

yep but still long way to go :nj ..

Not too long as we just need SCE 200 to be operational and it can be expected within a year or two

 

[rahul1117kumar]

India to demonstrate reusable launch vehicle technology

India will use a mini-rocket with a booster to fly a winged reusable launch vehicle into lower earth orbit on May 23 for demonstrating the technology its space agency developed, a senior official said on Friday.

“All going well, especially the weather, we will send on May 23 the nine-metre rocket, with a winged reusable launch vehicle demonstrator (RLV-TD) on its top into the atmosphere, about 70 km from the earth, and bring it back to test the technology we have developed indigenously,” Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) director K. Sivan told IANS.

The state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has designed and built the 1.7-tonne RLV-TD as a flying testbed to evaluate technologies developed to reduce the cost of launching rockets for carrying satellites into the earth’s polar and geo-stationary orbits.

The experimental launch will be from ISRO’s spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, about 80 km northeast of Chennai off the Bay of Bengal coast.

“The exercise will enable us collect data on hypersonic speed, autonomous landing ans cruise flight using air-breathing propulsion,” Sivan said ahead of the launch.

Rockets for launching satellites and space exploration are made at the space agency’s VSSC at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala.

The long-term objective of this mission is to reduce the launch cost to one-tenth of the present through a reusable vehicle.

Space agencies worldwide spend, on average, $20,000 to make and use medium-to-heavy weight rockets to launch satellites.

The first technology demonstrator will conduct the hypersonic flight experiment, followed by landing test, return flight experiment and scramjet propulsion test, using a 15-tonne rocket with nine tonne of propellants (solid fuel) as a booster.

“The 10-minute flight will demonstrate the hypersonic and aero-thermo dynamics of the winged re-entry vehicle, with autonomous mission management to land after passing through very high temperatures during re-entry,” Sivan noted.

As the cost of access to space is a prohibitive in space exploration and space utilization, a reusable launch vehicle will be low-cost for on-demand space access.

The space agency’s telemetary, tracking and command network (Istrac) in Bangalore will collect data from the vehicle spanning vertical take-off, its release in space by the rocket booster for manoeurves and its plunge into the sea in the Bay of Bengal.

The vehicle, however, will not be recovered, being a ‘dummy’.

“In subsequent test flights, we will attempt to land the reusable vehicle at a specific location on land like an aircraft does on a runway so that we can again use it for launching more satellites,” Sivan asserted.

The space agency is developing the RLV and its support systems from the budget earmarked annually for technology development and research and development.

The cost of developing the RLV technology is estimated to be about Rs.100 crore ($15 million).

“Developing the complex technology and using a reusable vehicle will take a decade as we have to build them with our own resources,” Sivan added.

Besides the US (NASA) and Russia (Roscomos), Japan (Jaxa) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have developed the RLV technology.
NASA, however, grounded its space shuttle programme in 2011 after using its reusable vehicles like Discovery, Endeavor, Columbia and Challenger as a space transportation system for over three decades since 1981 to launch various missions, including the International Space Station (ISS) and the Hubble telescope.

http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/science/isro-reusable-rocket-test-rlv-td-2813850/

 

[Sarkar]

RE: ISRO all set to launch Space Shuttle RLV-TD HEX-01 (Suborbital) on May 23, 2016

All threads merged. Rahul bro plz don't create any more threads on this mission. Just update this thread with information from time to time :k