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<b> India develops cryogenic engine </b>

Source : India Syndicate

Bangalore, Dec 6: In what is being seen as a major breakthrough in India’s space programme, scientists have announced the development of a rocket engine that uses super-cooled liquid fuel, thereby allowing the country to launch high-altitude satellites besides becoming capable of sending man to moon and building an intercontinental missile.


The ISRO said in a statement that the engine, known popularly as cryogenic engine, <b> proved its efficiency by firing for about 17 minutes on the ground as against the typical time of about 12 minutes. </b> <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo-->

With this, India becomes the sixth nation in the world after United States, Russia, France, China and Japan to have the capability to build cryogenic engines. Such engines are primarily used to launch satellites to high altitudes so that they match earth’s rotation speed and remain in what is called geo-stationary orbit.

The long duration test conducted on Friday marks the conclusion of the qualification of the cryogenic engine, which has been tested for a cumulative duration of 6,000 seconds so far in three hardware.

The test involved the firing of the Cryogenic main Engine with 7.1 tonne thrust for 1000 seconds, simultaneously with two 200 kg thrust Cryogenic Steering Engines, all mounted on a single block as used in the actual GSLV flight stage developing 7.5 tonne total thrust.

The steering engines are used to control the flight path of GSLV during the third stage thrusting. The turbo-pump fed, regeneratively cooled engine for the cryogenic stage is required to burn for a duration of 720 seconds in actual flight.

A number of specially established facilities like Assembly and Integration Facility, Test stand, state of the art Control Centre have been employed for the successful assembly and testing of engines.

The development of the cryogenic stage system is also progressing well at LPSC in Thiruvananthapuram. This cryogenic stage, using a combination of two tonne liquid hydrogen and 11 tonne liquid oxygen, is intended to replace the Russian supplied cryogenic stage in GSLV.

Dr G Madhavan Nair, Chairman, ISRO, Mr N Vedachalam, Director, LPSC, Dr B N Suresh, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, and other senior scientists of ISRO witnessed the test on Friday.

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