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Indian Space - News Folder - September 2004
India Building a New Solid Propellant Plant
[Aviation Week & Space Technology, 13 Sept 2004]
Indian Expansion
The Indian Space Research Organization plans a $66.7-million plant at its spaceport at Sriharikota in South India to produce 2,500 tons of solid propellants annually. The new plant should be ready within three years, according to ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair. A second launch pad at Sriharikota, 80 km. (50 mi.) north of Chennai, built at a cost of $88.9 million, is ready for its first launch in the first quarter of 2005, Nair says.
[Aviation Week & Space Technology, 13 Sept 2004]
Indian Expansion
The Indian Space Research Organization plans a $66.7-million plant at its spaceport at Sriharikota in South India to produce 2,500 tons of solid propellants annually. The new plant should be ready within three years, according to ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair. A second launch pad at Sriharikota, 80 km. (50 mi.) north of Chennai, built at a cost of $88.9 million, is ready for its first launch in the first quarter of 2005, Nair says.
India to launch Indonesian satellite
[Xinhua via COMTEX, 17 Sept 2004]
New Delhi: India will send an Indonesian micro-satellite into space on an indigenous launch rocket by early 2006, the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) reported Friday. Under a contract signed by Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of India's department of space, and Indonesia's National Institute of Aeronautics and Space, the 50-kg Lapan-Tubsat satellite will be launched on the polar satellite launch vehicle. The Indonesian satellite will ride piggyback with an Indian satellite on the rocket during the last quarter of 2005 or early 2006, the IANS quoted an official statement as saying here Friday.
The launch has been provided by Antrix "at a price which compares well with what the Indian Space Research Organization's competitors offer for launches of micro-satellites," the statement said. Four satellites of Germany, South Korea and Belgium have so far been launched by the ISRO and contracts were earlier signed for sending two more -- one each from Singapore and Europe -- into space. Indonesia's space agency, popularly known as Lapan, has in the past provided a location for establishing the Indian Space Research Organization's ground station at Biak in that country. The station, for which Indonesia also provided manpower, was used to support the tracking of Indian satellite launches, the statement said.
[Xinhua via COMTEX, 17 Sept 2004]
New Delhi: India will send an Indonesian micro-satellite into space on an indigenous launch rocket by early 2006, the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) reported Friday. Under a contract signed by Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of India's department of space, and Indonesia's National Institute of Aeronautics and Space, the 50-kg Lapan-Tubsat satellite will be launched on the polar satellite launch vehicle. The Indonesian satellite will ride piggyback with an Indian satellite on the rocket during the last quarter of 2005 or early 2006, the IANS quoted an official statement as saying here Friday.
The launch has been provided by Antrix "at a price which compares well with what the Indian Space Research Organization's competitors offer for launches of micro-satellites," the statement said. Four satellites of Germany, South Korea and Belgium have so far been launched by the ISRO and contracts were earlier signed for sending two more -- one each from Singapore and Europe -- into space. Indonesia's space agency, popularly known as Lapan, has in the past provided a location for establishing the Indian Space Research Organization's ground station at Biak in that country. The station, for which Indonesia also provided manpower, was used to support the tracking of Indian satellite launches, the statement said.
