Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator: ISRO demonstrates new tech that can be utilized for its Mars, Venus missions
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BENGALURU: ISRO on Saturday efficiently demonstrated a brand new expertise with Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (IAD) that it mentioned is a game-changer with a number of purposes for future missions together with to Mars and Venus.
An IAD, designed and developed by ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), was efficiently take a look at flown in a ‘Rohini’ sounding rocket from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS).
The IAD was initially folded and saved contained in the payload bay of the rocket, in keeping with the Bengaluru-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
At round 84 km altitude, the IAD was inflated and it descended via environment with the payload a part of sounding rocket.
The pneumatic system for inflation was developed by ISRO’s Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC), it mentioned.
The IAD has systematically lowered the rate of the payload via aerodynamic drag and adopted the expected trajectory.
“This is the first time that an IAD is designed specifically for spent stage recovery. All the objectives of the mission were successfully demonstrated”, the area company mentioned in a press release.
“The IAD has huge potential in variety of space applications like recovery of spent stages of rocket, for landing payloads on to Mars or Venus and in making space habitat for human space flight missions”, it mentioned.
Rohini sounding rockets are routinely used for flight demonstration of latest applied sciences being developed by ISRO in addition to by scientists from India and overseas.
In Saturday’s flight, together with IAD new components like micro video imaging system which captured the bloom and flight of IAD, a miniature software program outlined radio telemetry transmitter, MEMS (Micro-electromechanical programs)-based acoustic sensor and a number of latest methodologies have been flight examined efficiently, ISRO mentioned.
“These will be inducted later to the major missions. Sounding rockets offers an exciting platform for experimentation in upper atmosphere”, it mentioned.
“This demonstration opens a gateway for cost-effective spent stage recovery using the Inflatable Aerodynamics Decelerator technology and this IAD technology can also be used in ISRO’s future missions to Venus and Mars” mentioned ISRO Chairman S Somanath, who witnessed the launch.
BENGALURU: ISRO on Saturday efficiently demonstrated a brand new expertise with Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (IAD) that it mentioned is a game-changer with a number of purposes for future missions together with to Mars and Venus.
An IAD, designed and developed by ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), was efficiently take a look at flown in a ‘Rohini’ sounding rocket from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS).
The IAD was initially folded and saved contained in the payload bay of the rocket, in keeping with the Bengaluru-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
At round 84 km altitude, the IAD was inflated and it descended via environment with the payload a part of sounding rocket.
The pneumatic system for inflation was developed by ISRO’s Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC), it mentioned.
The IAD has systematically lowered the rate of the payload via aerodynamic drag and adopted the expected trajectory.
“This is the first time that an IAD is designed specifically for spent stage recovery. All the objectives of the mission were successfully demonstrated”, the area company mentioned in a press release.
“The IAD has huge potential in variety of space applications like recovery of spent stages of rocket, for landing payloads on to Mars or Venus and in making space habitat for human space flight missions”, it mentioned.
Rohini sounding rockets are routinely used for flight demonstration of latest applied sciences being developed by ISRO in addition to by scientists from India and overseas.
In Saturday’s flight, together with IAD new components like micro video imaging system which captured the bloom and flight of IAD, a miniature software program outlined radio telemetry transmitter, MEMS (Micro-electromechanical programs)-based acoustic sensor and a number of latest methodologies have been flight examined efficiently, ISRO mentioned.
“These will be inducted later to the major missions. Sounding rockets offers an exciting platform for experimentation in upper atmosphere”, it mentioned.
“This demonstration opens a gateway for cost-effective spent stage recovery using the Inflatable Aerodynamics Decelerator technology and this IAD technology can also be used in ISRO’s future missions to Venus and Mars” mentioned ISRO Chairman S Somanath, who witnessed the launch.
