Re: Tandoorispace!
- From: "Rusty" <reuben_barton@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 16 Nov 2006 22:26:20 -0800
Cruithne3753 wrote:
With India hoping to develop their own manned spacecraft, are there any
early designs of what it might look like?
Somehow, I'm expecting they'll probably go the China route for a
Soyuz-derived craft.
India is developing a small unmanned recovery capsule, maybe they
will scale it up for manned missions.
http://www.space.com/news/061110_india_mannedspace.html
"It has redesigned an existing satellite launcher - the GSLV -
to carry a crew of two and has already built a space recovery
capsule, said B.N. Suresh, director of the ISRO centre in
Trivandrum......"
"ISRO will attempt to validate its re-entry technology in January 2007,
when a new space recovery capsule will be launched into Earth orbit.
It will then be de-orbited and recovered in the sea."
A successful (space capsule) recovery
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2119/stories/20040924002409600.htm
Airdrop Test for Space Capsule Recovery Experiment Successfully
Conducted
http://asia.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=14891
Picture of GSLV launch vehicle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gslv1.jpg
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1833877,00040005.htm
"According to the plan, a GSLV Mark II rocket will take off from the
Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, with a three-tonne space
capsule and two people on board. About 16 minutes after liftoff,
the rocket will eject the capsule into an orbit 400 km from the earth.
The capsule will orbit the earth - for a day to start with, and for a
week in subsequent flights - before its splash down. The voyage to
the
moon will mean a mission of longer duration."
Rusty
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