Chandrayaan Series To Be Continued-Until A Bhartiya Steps On The Moon According To ISRO Chief S.Somnath
- Ananya Sharma
- Apr 18, 2024
- 3 min read
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On 23rd of August 2023, Bharat witnessed a historic moment with a successful soft-landing of the Vikram lander near the south pole of the moon thereby triumphing in the Chandrayaan -3 mission in a vision to explore the moon and henceforth making our Bharat the first country to accomplish this triumph.
Now our country is on the brink of sending more moon missions unless a Bhartiya lands on the moon as stated by Isro Chief S.Somnath during a program arranged by the Astronautical Society of India in Ahmedabad.
According to a statement by the ISRO chief, the Chandrayaan -3 mission has been a great success and the accumulation of data has been done and its printing has been initiated. However, the ISRO space agency is interested in carrying out a series of Chandrayaan missions envisioned to eventually make a Bhartiya step on the moon. Till then these lunar missions will be carried out as there is a lot more to achieve perfection in technological terms for instance going to the moon and coming back to Earth safely which will be accomplished in the next mission.
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ISRO Chief S.Somnath Take On Gaganyaan Mission:-
He also detailed that ISRO is poised to carry out an unmanned Gaganyaan mission, a test vehicle flight mission, and lastly an airdrop test this year. The Gaganyaan Mission is ISRO’s first manned mission and it envisages launching a crew of 3 members to an orbit of 400km for about 3 days mission and also to bring them back to Earth with extreme caution, by landing in Indian Sea Waters. Numerous tests have been conducted by the Indian space agency ISRO to prepare for the flight.
According to S. Somnath the airdrop test will be commenced on April 24. Apart from this two unmanned missions will be carried out next year and eventually a manned mission will be commenced after the successful accomplishments of the unmanned missions.
Let us understand about the airdrop test. The airdrop test is done to ensure the design as well as the proper functioning of vital systems such as a parachute, a landing gear, and various deceleration mechanisms vital for a safe landing. In an airdrop test a replica of the actual spacecraft or a payload from an aircraft to imitate the descent and landing phase of a real space mission.
ISRO Chief ISRO Chief S.Somnath Take On Carbon-Carbon (C-C) Nozzle Engineered By ISRO:-
He stated that the indigenous nascent C-C Nozzle recently engineered by ISRO will enhance the payload capacity owing to its lightweight property and it will be incorporated in the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
But what is C-C Nozzle Technology? It is an enabler of the rocket propulsion systems i.e. it will tremendously transcend the rocket propulsion systems due to the properties of a composite material known as Carbon-Carbon. Carbon-carbon has the property to withstand heat at extremely high temperatures and it is extremely lightweight when compared to other metallic components such as steel and aluminum. Thus leveraging Carbon -Carbon in rocket nozzles renders many advantages such as reduced weight, high-temperature operability, and better thermal efficiency of the propulsion system.
March 19, 2024, witnessed an enthralling triumph for ISRO when it successfully tested the C-C nozzle divergent, a 60 hot test second was commenced at the High-Altitude Test(HAT) provision in the ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC) situated in Mahendragiri testifying the successful performance of the system and significant integrity of the hardware.
According to a publication on April 16, ISRO ensured the feat in cutting-edge rocket engine technology through the engineering of a lightweight Carbon -Carbon Nozzle to be integrated into rocket engines, by significantly improving the payload capacity of launch vehicles.
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