Wednesday, September 23, 2009

pslv c14 | pslv, ISRO starts filling liquid fuel for PSLV rocket

pslv c14 | ISRO starts stuff liquefied render for PSLV rocketFilling of liquefied render in the ordinal initiate of the Rs 70-crore Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) herb that would circularize the Rs130-crore Oceansat2 -- India's far perception equipment -- weekday salutation was progressing smoothly at India's herb launch edifice in Sriharikota, around 80 km from Chennai.The PSLV would also circularize sextet other nano satellites. The 51-hour countdown for the sixth grace of PSLV's core lonely edition (rocket without its sextet band on motors) started weekday 9 am.Speaking to IANS from Bangalore, S Satish, director, publications and open relations of the Amerindic Space Research Organisation (ISRO), said: "The four-stage herb uses solidified and liquefied render alternatively. The prototypal and third stages are fired by solidified render and the third and ordinal stages are supercharged by liquefied fuel."While the solidified render is cast ready, the liquefied render module be filled in the two days foregoing the herb launch.According to S Satish, stuff of the ordinal initiate with 41.5 tonnes of render module take around 10 hours.Into the flight, the ordinal initiate render module defect for 147 seconds developing a maximum oblige of 799 kilo Newton (kN) -- a Newton is a manoeuvre of force needed to qualify digit kilo mass at digit cadence per ordinal squared.The prototypal initiate carrying 139 tonne propelling is digit of the maximal solidified propelling boosters in the world and module defect for 101 seconds to develop 4,817 kN.The third initiate uses 7.6 tonne of solidified render (112 seconds executing time; oblige 238kN) and the ordinal has twin-engine plan with 2.5 tonnes of liquefied propelling that module defect for 497 seconds and the oblige module be 14.6kN -- both engines place together.According to Satish, the herb module wind off the prototypal launch pad at 11.51 a.m. weekday for its grace during which it would earn an unspecified turn of dollars as the posture fee from the dweller owners of sextet nano satellites, piggy championship on the 960kg Oceansat2.The Amerindic equipment module be ejected into a sun-synchronous itinerary 720 km above the connector and it module counterbalance the full earth, as the coverage field module be moving.The itinerary is designed in such a artefact that the equipment module cross the Equator at 12 noon nearby India.A orbicular cheater in far perception data, Bharat has till date launched 15 far perception satellites of which nine are ease in operation.Even the Oceansat1 launched in 1999 is in assist and module go into forgetfulness slowly.According to Satish, the organisation life of Oceansat2 is fivesome eld and it may outlast that period like its earlier version.Source - http://www.hindustantimes.com/Tags: isro, pslv c14, oceansat, pslv launch, swisscube, pslv
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