I shouldn't know this, but I do
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Read this somewhere in the early 90's, think it was the "Hindu" newspaper. Perhaps a Google search of "DRDO-Valiant" might give details.
symontk wrote:HSF is Human Space flight
M. Nageswara Rao, Project Director, GSAT-14, said on Saturday: “The satellite has reached its final orbit today at a height of 36,000 km and 74 degrees east longitude. The in-orbit testing committee will meet on Monday to decide when to switch on the satellite’s payloads. It will take 10 to 15 days after January 20 to make the satellite operational. It will be ready for use by February 5.”
The satellite carries 12 transponders and it will be useful for telecommunication, broadcasting television programmes, telemedicine and beaming tele-education programmes for college students.
Aksahs,no image shows upakash_k wrote:
here's the rejoinder :Manish Jain wrote:An odd bit in reddit AMA -
"[–]ISROredditors[S] 2 points 13 hours ago*
Our cryo is based on a Russian engine built in the 60s. Our real breakthrough will be the Cryo engine of MKIII"
Basically, they were saying that present cryo is outdated and MKIII cryo will be up to date. Hard to reconcile it with what we've been reading here.
ISROredditors wrote: [S] 5 points 26 days ago
Its largely an indigenous effort but we have learnt from the Russian experience where ever possible.
PS: One of us who has not worked in launch vehicles area answered some other cryo question here (about the Mk III engine being the next gen one and mkII cryo based on russian engine) and his answer was wrong. Just wanted to clarify it. I can't find that answer, so can't edit now. Just saw that the wrong answer being discussed on bharatrakshak![]()