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GSAT-12 to be launched in July second week

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BANGALORE: On the heels of the successful launch of its communication satellite GSAT-8, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up to launch the next communication satellite GSAT-12 in the second week of July.

Announcing this at a news conference here on Wednesday,
ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan said the satellite would be launched from Sriharikota on a PSLV C-17 vehicle.

It would be moved from Bangalore to Sriharikota on Thursday for conducting various pre-launch tests. The assembling of the launch vehicle had also commenced.

GSAT-12, built at a cost of Rs.148 crore, has 12 transponders in an extended C-Band and will help users in the field of tele-medicine, tele-education, social services, etc. The launch vehicle was expected to cost about Rs.100 crore.

Dr. Radhakrishnan said the services of GSAT-8 satellite, launched on May 21, was expected to be available for users by June-end. In-orbit tests of transponders of the satellite would be held for three weeks, from Thursday. The satellite had been put on 55 degree east of geo-station orbit on Wednesday. Users of some of the decommissioned satellites would be moved to this, he said.

Referring to the recommendations made by a committee which looked into the failure of GSLV in December 2010 and another committee that examined the entire GSLV programme, Dr. Radhakrishnan said ISRO had now decided to “put all the focus” on developing indigenous cryogenic engines that powered Mark-II launch vehicles.

He said there were no major problems with respect to the design.

However, discussions had started with Russia regarding finetuning of the engine procured from them.

Special Correspondent reports:

As a fall-out of the controversial S-Band deal, ISRO's commercial arm — Antrix Corporation — is all set to get a full-time Chairman and Managing Director in a couple of weeks. Dr. Radhakrishnan said the Space Commission had cleared the recommendation of the name made by a three-member committee, comprising himself, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India R. Chidambaram, and Space Commission Member (Finance) Venkatesh Bhat and had been forwarded to the Prime Minister for clearance.

He said Antrix would be strengthened by getting more full-time experts with significant experience. Its performance would be reviewed every year by the Space Commission.

Besides, an ISRO team would monitor and coordinate with it, he noted.

Noted Scientist Roddam Narasimha, who is part of the two-member panel which probed the controversial Antrix-Devas deal, said the committee had submitted its report to the Prime Minister, but refused to divulge any details.

“We have done our duty. Let the Prime Minister take a decision on the report.”

No Design Fault Found In Indian GSLV

A failure analysis committee has found no design problems with India’s Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), despite two successive failures in 2010.

“We had the opportunity to look at all aspects of [the] GSLV, at not only the missions that failed but also the successful missions,” says G. Madhavan Nair, the chairman of the failure analysis committee and a former chief of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). “We could not find any design deficiency with respect to the GSLV.”

India’s GSLV program suffered a major setback when the GSLV (D3) and the GSLV-F06 suffered back-to-back failures in April and December 2010, with the rockets plunging into the Bay of Bengal minutes after liftoff.

The group traced the loss of GSLV-F06 to a failure of the composite shroud on the vehicle’s Russian cryogenic engine.

“The problem with GSLV is of a minor nature and it does not call for major changes,” Nair says. Discussions have begun with Russia regarding the shroud issue.

The space agency plans to launch the Chandrayaan-2, India’s second unmanned mission to the Moon, and its planned human spaceflight missions onboard GSLV rockets.

ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan says the space agency has now decided to focus on developing indigenous cryogenic engines to power the Mk. 2 GSLVs.

Radhakrishnan says the GSAT-7 and Insat-3D spacecraft, which were scheduled to be launched by the GSLV, will now go up on international launchers.

“The idea is that in the next launch of GSLV, we do not want to put [up] a costly, complex satellite,” Radhakrishnan says.

ISRO recently said a rocket subsystems integration facility will be established near Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh to handle Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle and GSLV launches.

Since rocket subsystems are currently manufactured in different parts of the country, the project, which is expected to be completed in about two-three years, will help reduce the need to transport sensitive hardware from far-flung locations.
 
VERY pleasant news , hoping to see GSLV soon in space.... will give India the moral boost .......:cheers:

Since rocket subsystems are currently manufactured in different parts of the country, the project, which is expected to be completed in about two-three years, will help reduce the need to transport sensitive hardware from far-flung locations

It will take another 2-3 years Bro.

Let's keep our finger crossed and wish for a happy news in second week of July
 
gslv should certainly be up there one or two failures doesn't matter we can definitely afford that......

Radhakrishnan says the GSAT-7 and Insat-3D spacecraft, which were scheduled to be launched by the GSLV, will now go up on international launchers.

“The idea is that in the next launch of GSLV, we do not want to put [up] a costly, complex satellite,” Radhakrishnan says
 

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