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If Twitterati are to be believed the new northern faction has already folded. No news on where Amrullah Saleh is but hopefully him and his commanders will find a way to Tajakistan and live to fight for another day. Some kind of anti-Taliban resistance is building up. Saleh is currently in Panjshehr...

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Prof Vasant Shinde, Former Vice-Chancellor, Deccan College, presents the latest findings from Rakhigarhi

krishGo · Re: Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft: News & Discussion - 30 August 2019

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. " Chandrayaan-3 will have a lander, rover and a propulsion module. The government has approved the project and we have formed the project team. Work is going on smoothly," Sivan said. "...We are targeting the launch for this year, but it may spillover to the next year," Sivan ...

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If I'm not mistaken this class of satellite can be launched by GSLV MKIII, correct? ISRO has done well. It can be launched on Mk III. But the launch agreements for these satellites were probably made 8-10 years ago. Also, more importantly the rate of launch for GSLV and the Mk III are limited by th...

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Congratulations to the team!! Respect for Mao Sir has quadrupled! The man has given his all for this program!

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I am glad by point# 8 above. I was also surprised that ISRO considered Kulasekharapattan in TN as the second space center. Of course, taking over the Manapad beach area for Indic causes is a good thing, however for polar launches and to distribute launch sites, it is better to put it in northwest. ...

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SaiK wrote:wouldn't we be landing on the dark side?

No! The planned landing site is on the visible side of the moon to south. Check the image posted by SSSalvi sir above.

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Prof B B Lal on OIT & archeological findings on the itihasas

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GSLV Mk3 with SC120 will be 2.89 mtrs shorter than GSLV Mk3 with L110 core. It is also very likely that the SC120 will be ground lit.Interesting times ahead! Any idea as to the burn time for the SC120. Because it has to burn for some time after the S200 boosters separate. If so, that will definitel...

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Cross Posting OK, is there a dhaga for Balwaristan like there is for Balochistan? I think attention needs to focus on these two now. Jammu-Kashmir is ***(Yaaaawn)**** soo July 2019 news. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/video/pok-activist-senge-sering-exposes-how-pakistan-has-been-changing-gilgit-bal...

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The most efficient way to get to the moon, is the 2 burn Hohmann transfer. This is what the Apollo, LRO, Change etc have done. Us using the mutli burn, orbit raising transfer, is due to combination of constraints like limited launcher capability, experience etc. (more of the former). An efficient u...

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Well, TERLS can theoretically still launch payload to Polar orbits. But the problem is the small sounding rocket launchpad cannot scale up. The launchpad is surrounded by thick human habitation (there is an SBI 500 m away from the launcher :lol: ). Expansion would cost a lot of money as it is valua...

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This is why I wanted to discuss the use of the new 800N engine that ISRO has developed for the lander as a future LAM engine. And electric propulsion for future interplanetary missions. In the latter case, the thrust and TWR is actually very low. EPS wins because its ISP is 10 times better than eng...

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looks like those NGOs have woken up in TN :-? .. wont thiruvananthapuram be a better bet, it already has the TERLS Well, TERLS can theoretically still launch payload to Polar orbits. But the problem is the small sounding rocket launchpad cannot scale up. The launchpad is surrounded by thick human h...

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It seems the Second Launch center will be coming up at Kulasekarapattinam The committe looking into possible locations for the new location for a luch complex seems to have zeroed in on Kulasekarapattinam. Gujarat, Kanyakumari seems like the other options they looked into. The main criteria for the...

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1. Is ISRO focusing on larger LAM engines? 2. I thought GiSAT was going to be PAM-G based. But it has been dropped for LAM. Any thoughts on LAM versus PAM-G? 1. More thrust isn't that big of a concern for onboard engines. Efficiency is much more important factor. ISRO has been working on ion propul...

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Chandrayaan 2 Raising Schedule: 24 JUL 19: 14:00-15:30 241.5 x 45,162 Km 26 JUL 19: 01:00-02:00 262.9 x 54,848 29 JUL 19: 14:30-15:30 281.6 x 71,341 02 AUG 19: 14:00-15:00 262.1 x 89,743 06 AUG 19: 14:30-15:30 233.2 x 143,953 Translunar Insertion 14 AUG 19: 03:00-04:00 278.4 x 412,505 Km Lunar orbi...

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The existing L110 2nd stage of the GSLV MkIII could be scaled up and use 4 S200 SRBs to lift a payload of over 12 tons. Of course the HLV is in development for 2024 to take up over 10 tons GTO. Perhaps sights should be set to lift 100 tons GTO? Maybe budgets aren’t there to do that. And look what w...

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A question for the gurus - does the apogee matter more than the perigee in this scheme of things? Seems like the apogee is bang on after the 1st raising while the perigee has a shortfall of 10 km achieved - 230 X 45163 km planned 241.5 x 45162 km. Did the orbit raising validate the new LAMs? True f...

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A question on today's launch: In previous launches I have seen ignition before t-0 and actual liftoff at t-0. In today's launch ignition was at t-0 and liftoff about 2 seconds later. Any reason behind that or just some adjustment of the clock!! A rocket "lifts off" when its Thrust to Weig...

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Thanks Amber G. Even today's giants like the Falcon Heavy and Delta IV Heavy pale in comparison to the absolute monster that was the Saturn V. It was built for only one mission - taking the Apollo missions to the moon as fast as possible. Complete overkill for any other kind of mission like satelli...

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There is no such thing as 'over performed' in engineering. Either it is to design parameters or it is not. The burn was "burn to depletion" allowing a higher apogee. The commentators did a great job explaining this during the launch. Usually the close loop monitoring system will cut off t...

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Correction. Not SITVC but flex nozzles with mechanical actuators. Right, thanks for correction. GSLV MkIII does have SITVCs attached on the SRB. Since the flex nozzles with mechanical actuators is to control in pitch and yaw plane, I am assuming that the SITVCs are for roll control on GSLV Mk III. ...

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^^^I don’t see the rush. Why not wait until end of August or October when moon perigee is the best and the launch pad isn’t being used for other launches? Either that or the leak was so small they know exactly where it is as opposed to actually being in the C25 3rd stage. Does anyone know if the 2n...

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https://twitter.com/isro/status/1150512237045379072 A technical snag was observed in launch vehicle system at T-56 minute. As a measure of abundant precaution, #Chandrayaan2 launch has been called off for today. Revised launch date will be announced later. The next attempt would only be in the next...

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Not a big deal just curious what is so important that usually SRDE Isro has chosen to a tfta night launch. Curiosity comes from the fact that I don’t remember ISRO ever launching a rocket at the night time before? There have been several launches by ISRO in the night. I believe one of the recent PS...

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ISRO set a launch window of 9-16 July. If for a minor reason like weather, a delay, then they can still launch in the next day or so. If there is a technical problem, then another date will have to selected. It’s more important to get this right rather than rushing. It is also interesting as to wha...

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Why is the payload removed and reassembled? Is it to drain out the (hydrazine?) propellent in the payload? Something else? Re-charge batteries? Well, we should remember that staellites are made to operate in vacuum. If the next launch date is too far away, then to preserve some of the sensitive equ...

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Gagan wrote:"Technical Hold"
Cryo fuel filling must have been completed by now...
7000 people in the launch gallery

News channels reporting scrub.

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ISRO set a launch window of 9-16 July. If for a minor reason like weather, a delay, then they can still launch in the next day or so. If there is a technical problem, then another date will have to selected. It’s more important to get this right rather than rushing. It is also interesting as to wha...

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At 3AM IST in Chennai, there is significant 94% cloud cover and a 36% chance of precipitation with 83% humidity. INSAT images from 14 July at 19:00 IST are showing significant cloud build up to the west and there could be a thunderstorm at the time of launch. I do not wish for the GSLV MkIII-M1 to ...

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There are a lot of variables in such a complex mission. Disha and others have already go over some of the aspects of could go wrong. IMO these are the critical milestones in the mission 1. Ignition of C-25 & successful operation While the ignition, successful operation of solid boosters & L1...

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gaurav.p wrote:found this while lurking around twitter.

Cool! I believe this was issued to the IAM personnel who will be involved in selecting the vyomonaut candidates from the IAF.

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Not at all an expert. The Mk3 should theoretically be able to put around 2 tons on a direct transfer (2 burn Hohmann orbit) to moon. I am not entirely sure if it can actually do that. This transfer requires the rocket to make a long upper stage burn at apogee to be the most efficient. This requires ...

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"Examples are them not planning to do an unmanned orbital test flight before the actual manned flight..." There are two or three unmanned flights of the space capsule before the manned one. From WIKI: Following two uncrewed flight demonstrations of the spacecraft, a crewed Gaganyaan is sl...

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Docking technology should be developed prior to human space flight lest the astronauts be marooned. Is there a common standard for docking mechanisms and interlocks? Note this is not essential for rescue but would make things easier. Well, usually docking isn't seen as an critical technology for hu...

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Perhaps since the temp can go to approx 100 K which could impair the operations of the rover equipment? Any details from Gurus? IMO Temperature gradient is the bigger problem than power generation. There was some talk of ISRO using Russian RHU / RTG, which would keep the critical components warm an...

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From Aero India 19 - Check from 6:20 in the video

BEML is developing a new 1500 hp engine to power "the main battle tank"

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JTull wrote:So LCA Navy Mk2 will come before MWF.

Looks like that if we take into account that metal cutting for MWF is about to start whereas Navy Mk2 is already in (early stages of?) fabrication. Atleast the first flight of Navy Mk2 should be before that of MWF.

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