Know Some Facts about ISRO's heaviest Rocket GSLV Mark-III

India’s space agency successfully tested its most powerful satellite launch vehicle that can put heavier payloads into space – GSLV Mark-III

This experimental mission of GSLV Mark-III has helped ISRO with two primary lessons — to study the flight validation of the complex atmospheric flight regime of LVM3 vehicle and to study the re-entry characteristics of CARE crew module.

India announced two more successes in its space programme launching the country’s largest rocket GSLV Mark-III of an unmanned crew module, part of India’s quest to send humans into space. The Indian Space Research Organization said that the GSLV Mark-III with 630-tonne rocket blasted off from Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Cost of the mission was Rs. 155 crore including the crew module, which cost Rs. 15 crore.

The Rocket was carrying the crew module and releases its 125 kilometers above the Earth. The pod, meant for carrying two to three astronauts, splashed down in the Bay of Bengal, said K Radhakrishnan, ISRO chairman. He said it marked a “very significant day in India’s space history.” But experts say it will be several years before India can send astronauts into space.

In September, it joined an elite-club when it successfully guided its Mars Orbiter Mission into orbit around the Red Planet. Only the United States, former Soviet Union and European Space Agency have been able to do that before. India, which is striving to become a player in the multi-billion dollar space market, has successfully launched lighter satellites in recent years, but has faced problems sending up heavier payloads. Pallava Bagla, a space expert, said the newly developed rocket would double the capacity to 4 tonnes of what India can carry into space.

The flight also tested the parachute deployment system of the crew module, which has to work in a cluster formation to slow down the module and reduce atmospheric friction and thermal corrosion during its free fall back to the surface.

Did You Know?

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  This is the first time ISRO was carrying a payload weighing over three tonne.
  


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  The national space agency’s first space recovery experiment (SRE-1) module, launched by a PSLV rocket in January 2007, weighed only 555 kg and that was not a crew module.
  


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  It would take at least 10 years for India to send humans into space. This experiment has helped the space agency to test the module for safe return of humans from space, according to ISRO.
  

Well, I think this is the actual offo moment for India and I would say well job India and I know you also shout on this moment and say … “offoIndia”. Share your feelings and thoughts on this moment of achievement. 

Know Some Facts about ISRO's heaviest Rocket GSLV Mark-III