More details on the Indian recoverable satellite plan

More details on the Indian recoverable satellite plan.

Does the recoverable module have the size to carry a pilot, I wonder?

http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_f...ntent_id=99916

Isro all set to join satellite rescue club

HUMA SIDDIQUI
Posted online: Monday, August 22, 2005 at 0000 hours IST




India will join a select club of countries when it launches its first
recoverable satellite in early 2006. As the world watched with bated breath
the re-entry of space shuttle Discovery into the earth's atmosphere over
California, back home in India, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is
working on a major project to demonstrate the capability to recover an
orbiting space capsule.

Well 600 kg I guess it s more like the Chinese capsules for retrieval
of photographic samples I guess.

Is it a purely ballistic capsule or as it got a GNC and thrusters,
allowing guided entry and cross range ?

The article is forgetting Japan among the countries having reentry
technology (OREX, USERS, etc)

what is with the attachment?

Brian

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"Jim Oberg" wrote in message
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More details on the Indian recoverable satellite plan.

Does the recoverable module have the size to carry a pilot, I wonder?

http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_f...ntent_id=99916

Isro all set to join satellite rescue club

HUMA SIDDIQUI
Posted online: Monday, August 22, 2005 at 0000 hours IST




India will join a select club of countries when it launches its
first
recoverable satellite in early 2006. As the world watched with bated
breath
the re-entry of space shuttle Discovery into the earth's atmosphere over
California, back home in India, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
is
working on a major project to demonstrate the capability to recover an
orbiting space capsule.

"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
. uk...
what is with the attachment?


I have no clue -- maybe I ought to run some defensive software.

Jim Oberg wrote:
More details on the Indian recoverable satellite plan.

Does the recoverable module have the size to carry a pilot, I wonder?

At 600 kg, this seems like it would be pretty tight. Vostok 1 mass was
2,460 kg http://www.astronautix.com/craft/vosok3ka.htm, but did scale
up to 3 people at only 2,900 kg.

Now given that this capsule is one of two 600kg payloads on the same
flight, it seems pretty clear that India could pull of a 1 man capsule
pretty quickly if they really wanted to, and weren't to concerned about
safety or comfort.

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:35:38 -0500, Jim Oberg wrote
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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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what is with the attachment?


I have no clue -- maybe I ought to run some defensive software.



Maybe, Jim - I see my ISP didn't get your original post. Maybe it was
filtered because of an attachment?

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hop wrote:


Now given that this capsule is one of two 600kg payloads on the same
flight, it seems pretty clear that India could pull of a 1 man capsule
pretty quickly if they really wanted to, and weren't to concerned about
safety or comfort.


Obviously you've never flown on Air India :-)

"nmp" wrote in message
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Op Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:35:38 +0000, schreef Jim Oberg:

Danke!

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"nmp" wrote in message
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Op Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:35:38 +0000, schreef Jim Oberg:

Danke!


It's 'Bedankt!' Jim. He's not German but Dutch. There is a difference, you
know