Bangalore: India Saturday successfully tested the indigenous super cooled cryogenic engine which will be used to fireplace a heavier rocket to place a communication satellite within the geo-synchronous orbit later this year, the house agency said.The acceptance take a look at of the cryogenic stage of the serious rocket was conducted for two hundred seconds and therefore the performance of the engine was as predicted,' the state-run Indian house analysis Organisation (ISRO) said in an exceedingly statement here.
The flight engine take a look at was conducted within the house agency's Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) facility at Mahendragiri, concerning 670 km from Chennai in Tamil Nadu. the new take a look at included the cryo's endurance and functioning in vacuum.
A cryo-engine may be a rocket motor that's fired by a mix of liquid fuels (oxidiser) like hydrogen and oxygen at terribly low temperatures of twenty degree Kelvin or minus 423 degree Fahrenheit and ninety degree Kelvin or minus 297 degree Fahrenheit.
The house agency's arrange to use its initial cryogenic engine April fifteen, 2010 to launch a communication satellite on board a GSLV (geo-synchronous satellite launch vehicle) was aborted because the serious rocket plunged into the ocean inside minutes once blast-off from its Sriharikota spaceport, concerning eighty km north-east of Chennai.
The house agency plans to launch a series of house missions over successive 2 years employing a combination of lighter (PSLV) and heavier (GSLV) rockets, as well as an experimental flight of GSLV-Mark III.
'We arrange launch twenty four satellites over successive 2 years, starting with a GSAT in September carrying30 transponders on board the spacecraft, followed by a subsequent launch later this year to place another communication satellite within the geo-synchronous orbit with twelve transponders,' a senior house official told IANS.
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