SRIHARIKOTA:Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Thursday successfully conducted an experimental test-flight of GSLV MK III carrying a crew module, to be used in future manned space missions.
GSLV MK III,which is the heaviest commencement vehicle Isro has ever made, lifted off from the second start pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota at 9.30am.
"We have completed the first experimental exam-flight of GSLV Mark III. The do something of strong and liquid propulsion stages happened as customary. The crew module has plunged into the sea. The adjacent developmental flight of the trigger vehicle will be ended in the bearing in mind two years," Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan said.
The GSLV's integral cryogenic engine phase was in a passive own occurring and the suborbital test-flight was conducted mainly to test the flight validation of the foundation vehicle and its press before telemetric systems, apart from the atmospheric reentry pattern and thermal resistance of the module during the Crew Module Atmosphereic Re-entre Experiment (CARE).
The rocket soared from the foundation pad after a 24-hour countdown that commenced around Wednesday daylight. The crew module estranged from the rocket at an altitude of 126 km and subsequently occurring for-entered into the earth's heavens at 80 km. It moreover followed an uncontrolled trajectory into the Bay of Bengal nearly 180 km off the Andaman Nicobar Islands.
The crew module weighing 3.73 tonne not speaking from the rocket not quite 325 seconds (five minutes) after the lift-off from the foundation pad. The ill feeling of both sealed and liquid propulsion stages had been serene, said GSLV project director S Somnath.
The flight next tested the parachute deployment system of the crew module which has to suit in a cluster formation to slow all along the module and lie in wait atmospheric friction and thermal corrosion during its handy slip urge in the region of to the surface.
GSLV MK III,which is the heaviest commencement vehicle Isro has ever made, lifted off from the second start pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota at 9.30am.
"We have completed the first experimental exam-flight of GSLV Mark III. The do something of strong and liquid propulsion stages happened as customary. The crew module has plunged into the sea. The adjacent developmental flight of the trigger vehicle will be ended in the bearing in mind two years," Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan said.
The GSLV's integral cryogenic engine phase was in a passive own occurring and the suborbital test-flight was conducted mainly to test the flight validation of the foundation vehicle and its press before telemetric systems, apart from the atmospheric reentry pattern and thermal resistance of the module during the Crew Module Atmosphereic Re-entre Experiment (CARE).
The rocket soared from the foundation pad after a 24-hour countdown that commenced around Wednesday daylight. The crew module estranged from the rocket at an altitude of 126 km and subsequently occurring for-entered into the earth's heavens at 80 km. It moreover followed an uncontrolled trajectory into the Bay of Bengal nearly 180 km off the Andaman Nicobar Islands.
The crew module weighing 3.73 tonne not speaking from the rocket not quite 325 seconds (five minutes) after the lift-off from the foundation pad. The ill feeling of both sealed and liquid propulsion stages had been serene, said GSLV project director S Somnath.
The flight next tested the parachute deployment system of the crew module which has to suit in a cluster formation to slow all along the module and lie in wait atmospheric friction and thermal corrosion during its handy slip urge in the region of to the surface.
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