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#600
by
antriksh
on 18 Dec, 2014 08:38
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Congrats ISRO and Thanks for giving us such an exciting year!!
Next year would be so boring
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#601
by
vyoma
on 18 Dec, 2014 08:45
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Next year would be so boring
We'll have Astrosat and GSLV Mk2 D6 next year. Also, we might start to get data from MOM.
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#602
by
antriksh
on 18 Dec, 2014 09:08
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#603
by
ss1_3
on 18 Dec, 2014 09:19
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Nice amateur video there, antriksh! This guy did a better job than the ISRO cameraman. Has to be one of the worst ever launch coverage. Congrats to ISRO, anyway, for the successful launch!
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#604
by
antriksh
on 18 Dec, 2014 09:29
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Nice amateur video there, antriksh! This guy did a better job than the ISRO cameraman. Has to be one of the worst ever launch coverage. Congrats to ISRO, anyway, for the successful launch!
Yeah, disappointing coverage by DD guys. Anyways, launch pics from ISRO
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#605
by
gwiz
on 18 Dec, 2014 11:10
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2. It looks like the the main load bearing for the SRBs is at the top, connected to the interstage. So since the core stage is not lot at launch, the interstage is pulling along the entire filled core stage?
Probably gives a lighter core structure with the SRB load on the core in tension rather than compression. Also reduces max load in the period when both core and SRBs are burning.
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#606
by
robertross
on 18 Dec, 2014 11:15
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My congrats to ISRO on the launch.
And thanks for the coverage guys; I just couldn't stay up...
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#607
by
Prober
on 18 Dec, 2014 12:01
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Launch replay in correct aspect ratio.
First rate cleanup mate
Made an enjoyable launch that much better.
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#608
by
antriksh
on 18 Dec, 2014 12:18
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ISRO scores a double in one shotThe re-entry successfully tested the crew module's heat shield which was found to withstand the intense heat generated due to friction caused by the Earth's dense atmosphere during descent.
It then deployed a triple parachute to break its free fall with an uncontrolled trajectory. The module touched down in the Bay of Bengal about 180 km off the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, and was retrieved by the Coast Guard.
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#609
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 18 Dec, 2014 12:31
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This one has tracking all the way till SRB separation:
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#610
by
vyoma
on 18 Dec, 2014 13:00
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#611
by
Ohsin
on 18 Dec, 2014 13:12
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#612
by
AJA
on 18 Dec, 2014 13:24
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No charring at all !? 
Might've been washed off? Or even blown off? It didn't face the kind of heating that an orbital re-entry would, so maybe the chemistry's different too.
Also, no flotation collar! Unless it's submerged.. but there doesn't seem to be anything under the capsule.
What are those two white things in the water, next to the capsule? Beacons? Dye containers which haven't released the dye yet? EDIT: There's a spool like thing on the near-side cord, and you can see the slack (assuming parachute's been jettisoned) risers (a lot more meaty than those cords) in the alternate bays, so they're not risers..
PS: Additionally, I think this is our first look at the top of the CARE module, and the "hatch" configuration (aside from a couple of pictures of an unfinished module's skeleton posted earlier in this thread). It seems like there are a lot of equipment bays that weren't packed to the brim with instrumentation. That's a bit surprising. Especially given that they jettisoned the apex covers (which presumably covered all that we're now seeing)... I'd have thought they'd have outfitted it with sensors to monitor atmospheric and wake parameters etc...
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#613
by
edkyle99
on 18 Dec, 2014 13:39
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#614
by
seshagirib
on 18 Dec, 2014 13:47
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No charring at all !?
Might've been washed off? Or even blown off? It didn't face the kind of heating that an orbital re-entry would, so maybe the chemistry's different too.
Also, no flotation collar! Unless it's submerged.. but there doesn't seem to be anything under the capsule.
What are those two white things in the water, next to the capsule? Beacons? Dye containers which haven't released the dye yet? EDIT: There's a spool like thing on the near-side cord, and you can see the slack (assuming parachute's been jettisoned) risers (a lot more meaty than those cords) in the alternate bays, so they're not risers..
PS: Additionally, I think this is our first look at the top of the CARE module, and the "hatch" configuration (aside from a couple of pictures of an unfinished module's skeleton posted earlier in this thread). It seems like there are a lot of equipment bays that weren't packed to the brim with instrumentation. That's a bit surprising. Especially given that they jettisoned the apex covers (which presumably covered all that we're now seeing)... I'd have thought they'd have outfitted it with sensors to monitor atmospheric and wake parameters etc...
I am guessing, atleast some of them may be chute compartments.
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#615
by
Chris Bergin
on 18 Dec, 2014 13:50
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That's a huge win for India.
Even Mr. Hale's praising them!
Wayne Hale @waynehale 7m7 minutes ago
Triumph for Indian space program-good test for upcoming manned flight. they may beat the US in building indigenous new human spacecraft!
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#616
by
abhishek
on 18 Dec, 2014 14:18
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I am hoping for the launch of SRE-2 or ATV d2
What about RLV TD ?
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#617
by
hektor
on 18 Dec, 2014 14:22
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The capsule seems immaculate. Is it from the real thing or from a rehearsal ?
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#618
by
baldusi
on 18 Dec, 2014 14:50
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The capsule seems immaculate. Is it from the real thing or from a rehearsal ?
It only had 5.3km/s, or about 45% of the heat flux of a LEO entry.
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#619
by
hektor
on 18 Dec, 2014 15:20
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Yeah but I had first hand view of ARD which was pretty much with the same heat flux and it was not that pristine.
Congrats ISRO and Thanks for giving us such an exciting year!!
