India will get first personal rocket launchpad at Sriharikota

Express News Service

CHENNAI: The personal area sector has been reaching for the celebrities and making big leaps lately. India obtained its first personal rocket launchpad and mission management centre at Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota on Monday, due to Chennai-based startup Agnikul Cosmos. 

This comes inside weeks after India’s first personal rocket Vikram-S was efficiently launched by Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace, utilizing a sounding rocket launcher of the Indian Space Research Organisation from Sriharikota’s shores. Inaugurating the startup’s launchpad, ISRO Chairman S Somanath mentioned, “The first private launchpad in the country gives India one more platform to travel to space.” 

ISRO Chairman S Somanath inaugurated
Chennai-based startup Agnikul Cosmos
rocket launchpad and mission management centre | Express

The maiden launch is scheduled for someday in December. SR Chakravarthy, one of many advisors for Agnikul and head of the National Centre for Combustion Research and Development (NCCRD), IIT-Madras, mentioned, “We are pushing for Mission Readiness Review in the next 10-15 days, after which the launch date will be given by ISRO.”  

Enough precautions had been taken to make sure security, Agnikul co-founder Moin SPM instructed TNIE. “There is a distance of 4 km between the Agnikul’s launchpad and the mission control centre. Both are connected with two independent lines just to have 100% redundancy and operationality.”

A six-metre tall single-stage rocket shall be flying Agnikul’s patented semi-cryogenic engine, placing India on the world map. The full-scale orbital launch automobile Agnibaan shall be a customisable, two-stage rocket, able to taking as much as 100 kg payload to orbits round 700-km excessive (low Earth orbits) and permits plug-and-play configuration.

Srinath Ravichandran, CEO and co-founder of the startup, mentioned constructing a launchpad was a necessity as a result of the rocket wanted a vertical lift-off. Meanwhile, ISRO’s launchpads can’t be utilised as a consequence of their gigantic dimension. According to ISRO, Agnikul’s launch facility can help liquid stage-controlled launches, monitor key flight security parameters by ISRO’s vary operations groups throughout launches, and share knowledge with the Mission Control Centre.

The area company mentioned the institution of this personal launchpad marks a big step in opening the area sector to non-public gamers. It affirms the dedication of ISRO and the Department of Space. It could also be famous Agnikul Cosmos, incubated by IIT Madras,  turned the primary Indian agency to signal an settlement with ISRO, in December 2020. Under the IN-SPACe initiative, the agency gained entry to ISRO’s experience to construct Agnibaan autos and the launchpads. 

CHENNAI: The personal area sector has been reaching for the celebrities and making big leaps lately. India obtained its first personal rocket launchpad and mission management centre at Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota on Monday, due to Chennai-based startup Agnikul Cosmos. 

This comes inside weeks after India’s first personal rocket Vikram-S was efficiently launched by Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace, utilizing a sounding rocket launcher of the Indian Space Research Organisation from Sriharikota’s shores. Inaugurating the startup’s launchpad, ISRO Chairman S Somanath mentioned, “The first private launchpad in the country gives India one more platform to travel to space.” 

ISRO Chairman S Somanath inaugurated
Chennai-based startup Agnikul Cosmos
rocket launchpad and mission management centre | ExpressThe maiden launch is scheduled for someday in December. SR Chakravarthy, one of many advisors for Agnikul and head of the National Centre for Combustion Research and Development (NCCRD), IIT-Madras, mentioned, “We are pushing for Mission Readiness Review in the next 10-15 days, after which the launch date will be given by ISRO.”  

Enough precautions had been taken to make sure security, Agnikul co-founder Moin SPM instructed TNIE. “There is a distance of 4 km between the Agnikul’s launchpad and the mission control centre. Both are connected with two independent lines just to have 100% redundancy and operationality.”

A six-metre tall single-stage rocket shall be flying Agnikul’s patented semi-cryogenic engine, placing India on the world map. The full-scale orbital launch automobile Agnibaan shall be a customisable, two-stage rocket, able to taking as much as 100 kg payload to orbits round 700-km excessive (low Earth orbits) and permits plug-and-play configuration.

Srinath Ravichandran, CEO and co-founder of the startup, mentioned constructing a launchpad was a necessity as a result of the rocket wanted a vertical lift-off. Meanwhile, ISRO’s launchpads can’t be utilised as a consequence of their gigantic dimension. According to ISRO, Agnikul’s launch facility can help liquid stage-controlled launches, monitor key flight security parameters by ISRO’s vary operations groups throughout launches, and share knowledge with the Mission Control Centre.

The area company mentioned the institution of this personal launchpad marks a big step in opening the area sector to non-public gamers. It affirms the dedication of ISRO and the Department of Space. It could also be famous Agnikul Cosmos, incubated by IIT Madras,  turned the primary Indian agency to signal an settlement with ISRO, in December 2020. Under the IN-SPACe initiative, the agency gained entry to ISRO’s experience to construct Agnibaan autos and the launchpads.