ISRO to flight test indigenous cryogenic stage onboard GSLV-D5

Monday, 20 June 2011, 15:41 IST
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ISRO to flight test indigenous cryogenic stage onboard GSLV-D5
Tirunelveli: India will undertake the flight test of its indigenous cryogenic stage on board homegrown rocket GSLV-D5 which will launch GSAT-14 by the middle of 2012, a top ISRO official has said. A facility for static testing of the cryogenic engine would be ready in another two months at ISRO's Liquid Propulsion's Systems centre (LPSC) at Mahendragiri in this district, Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman K Radhakrishnan said. The new thrust chamber facility for static testing would be a big boon for the LPSC, Radhakrishnan told reporters at the LPSC yesterday after inaugurating a two-day National Conference on "Expanding Frontiers in Propulsion Technology. The maiden flight test of the indigenous cryogenic stage by ISRO onboard Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle GSLV-D3 ended in a failure in May, 2010 after the stage developed some snag and the rocket plunged into sea minutes after liftoff.
Source: PTI
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