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Re: GSLV Mk-3
« Reply #40 on: 06/07/2011 03:42 pm »
The GSLV-MarkIII will be flight tested in 2 years:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/isro-to-begin-flight-testing-of-gslv-mkiii-in-next-two-years/articleshow/8761258.cms


This will impact the Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission, which will now have to be launched on the GSLV F-Series:

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/sci-tech/space/isro-likely-scale-down-chandrayaan-2-886

F-Series? I've never even heard of it before. Does anybody have any info on it?

The serial numbers… D1, D2 demonstration then followed by F01, F02…

PSLV also started with D for demonstration then C for continuation

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Re: GSLV Mk-3
« Reply #41 on: 09/13/2011 04:34 am »
Here is video of the latest test of the S200 solid rocket booster, which took place on Sep 4, 2011 at SHAR:


http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2011/09/s200-booster-tested-at-sdsc.html

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Re: GSLV Mk-3
« Reply #43 on: 10/05/2011 05:13 pm »
Another little blurb about GSLV Mk-III (video clip)

http://www.timesnow.tv/India-in-a-new-space-league/videoshow/4385667.cms

I'm just mentioning it, because @1:18 ISRO Chief Radhakrishnan says that they might attempt a developmental flight without the Cryogenic Upper Stage engine. He says they'd like to be in a position to do that by end of 2012. They don't want the CUS failures to delay the development of GSLV-Mk3 by too much.

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Re: GSLV Mk-3
« Reply #45 on: 10/10/2011 12:03 pm »
S200 static test video:
http://www.isro.org/video.aspx

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Re: GSLV Mk-3
« Reply #46 on: 03/14/2012 11:00 am »
Acoustic/vibrational tests have been completed on the payload faring for the GSLV Mark-III:

http://tarmak007.blogspot.in/2012/03/gslv-mk-iii-payload-fairing-completes.html

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Re: GSLV Mk-3 first launch end 2012
« Reply #47 on: 04/20/2012 07:57 am »
From ISRO's 2011 report, it reports that the first flight of GSLV-III will use a "passive upper stage"(pp.61), which presumably is a structural mock-up of the hydrogen upper stage.

Does it mean that it will be a sub-orbital flight?
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Re: GSLV Mk-3 first launch end 2012
« Reply #48 on: 04/20/2012 09:30 am »
From ISRO's 2011 report, it reports that the first flight of GSLV-III will use a "passive upper stage"(pp.61), which presumably is a structural mock-up of the hydrogen upper stage.

Does it mean that it will be a sub-orbital flight?

Yes, it will be suborbital

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Re: GSLV Mk-3 first launch end 2012
« Reply #49 on: 04/27/2012 04:09 am »
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/245056/much-awaited-gslv-sept-oct.html

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An atmospheric test for the GSLV-Mark-III upgraded version, sans the cryogenic stage, will also take place this year, said Radhakrishnan. “In fact during Jan-Feb 2012 we fully assembled a GSLV-Mark-III in Sriharikota and integrated it on our second launch pad and a series of tests were done followed by a detailed review by experts,” he disclosed.

The Isro had also changed its plans for the human spaceflight, he said. Instead of the human spaceflight happening on a GSLV flight, “we now want to do it on a GSLV-Mark-III,” he added.

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Re: GSLV Mk-3 first launch end 2012
« Reply #50 on: 05/02/2012 05:47 pm »


http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1205/01gslv/



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A test flight of India's third-generation GSLV, called the GSLV Mk.3, has been set for early 2013, Radhakrishnan said.

"GSLV Mk.3 has crossed several major milestones," Radhakrishnan said. "The lower stages have been qualified, and we will be undertaking an experimental flight of GSLV Mk.3 in a year from Sriharikota essentially to understand the behavior of the vehicle in the atmospheric stage of flight."

Propelled by two solid rocket boosters and a liquid-fueled two-engine core stage, the suborbital test flight will lift off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on India's east coast.

Each booster will generate 1.1 million pounds of thrust, making it the third most powerful solid rocket motor in the world after the boosters used on the space shuttle and Ariane 5 launcher.

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Re: GSLV Mk-3 first launch end 2012
« Reply #52 on: 05/09/2012 06:20 am »
I like the description that it weighs more than 125 elephants.
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Re: GSLV Mk-3 first launch end 2012/ early 2013
« Reply #53 on: 05/09/2012 10:40 am »
     <sigh> Sure would love a hi-res of that baby on the launchpad...pity it's ISRO.  Even the Chinese are releasing good photos lately :/

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Re: GSLV Mk-3 first launch end 2012/ early 2013
« Reply #54 on: 05/09/2012 03:48 pm »
Nasadiya Sukta:
Srishti se pehle sat nahin thaa, asat bhi nahin | Antariksh bhi nahin, aakaash bhi nahin thaa | chhipaa thaa kyaa, kahaan, kisne dhakaa thaa | us pal to agam, atal jal bhi kahaan thaa ||

From: 1st verse of 129th Hymn of the 10th Book of Rig Veda

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Re: GSLV Mk-3 first launch end 2012/ early 2013
« Reply #55 on: 05/11/2012 07:57 pm »
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Indigenous-space-engine-test-Saturday/articleshow/13100716.cms

The advanced rocket will have a multi-mission launch capability for geo-synchronous transfer orbit (GTO), low earth orbit (lEO), polar and intermediate circular orbits.
Nasadiya Sukta:
Srishti se pehle sat nahin thaa, asat bhi nahin | Antariksh bhi nahin, aakaash bhi nahin thaa | chhipaa thaa kyaa, kahaan, kisne dhakaa thaa | us pal to agam, atal jal bhi kahaan thaa ||

From: 1st verse of 129th Hymn of the 10th Book of Rig Veda

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Re: GSLV Mk-3 first launch mid 2013
« Reply #56 on: 12/08/2012 08:40 pm »
Nasadiya Sukta:
Srishti se pehle sat nahin thaa, asat bhi nahin | Antariksh bhi nahin, aakaash bhi nahin thaa | chhipaa thaa kyaa, kahaan, kisne dhakaa thaa | us pal to agam, atal jal bhi kahaan thaa ||

From: 1st verse of 129th Hymn of the 10th Book of Rig Veda

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Re: GSLV Mk-3 first launch mid 2013
« Reply #57 on: 01/07/2013 09:55 pm »
Nasadiya Sukta:
Srishti se pehle sat nahin thaa, asat bhi nahin | Antariksh bhi nahin, aakaash bhi nahin thaa | chhipaa thaa kyaa, kahaan, kisne dhakaa thaa | us pal to agam, atal jal bhi kahaan thaa ||

From: 1st verse of 129th Hymn of the 10th Book of Rig Veda

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Re: GSLV Mk-3 first launch mid 2013
« Reply #58 on: 01/07/2013 11:17 pm »
Artist concept of manned LVM3
Nasadiya Sukta:
Srishti se pehle sat nahin thaa, asat bhi nahin | Antariksh bhi nahin, aakaash bhi nahin thaa | chhipaa thaa kyaa, kahaan, kisne dhakaa thaa | us pal to agam, atal jal bhi kahaan thaa ||

From: 1st verse of 129th Hymn of the 10th Book of Rig Veda

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Re: GSLV Mk-3 first launch mid 2013
« Reply #59 on: 01/08/2013 05:39 pm »
What sort of planetary mission capabilities does it have?

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