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GSLV Mk. III Test Launch


Kryten

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India's GSLV Mk. III rocket is planned to fly it's first mission at about 4:00 UTC/GMT (i.e. 23 hours after this post). Live coverage should be available here(Indian national news), here(directly from ISRO), and via youtube

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The payload is a prototype for an Indian crewed capsule, CARE, the full version of which is planned to fly on Mk. III sometime after 2020.

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Your right! Those Indian guys on a different forum lied to me! D:<

I should have known, they have loads of trouble with upper stage cryo's as it is.

The cryo stage is still under development and will be tested in 2015.The core stage is Hypergolic and will be replaced by a 2000 KN RP1/LOX engine in 2019.

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So - I woke up this morning and had a thought. Does ISRO have any plans for extending the first liquid stage? If they ignited the liquid engines at liftoff and put enough extra fuel in the tanks so that the engines could burn through SRB separation and on for another few minutes like they usually do, what would that do to the rocket's payload capacity?

It would probably simpler to do this than to design a new rocket. The L-110 engines might have to be tweaked to enable them to burn for the extra time, and obviously they would need bigger tanks, but it seems like it might be worth doing. It can do 10,000kg to LEO as is, but how much extra could they get out of it?

*EDIT* I read up-thread that they are planning on replacing the hypergolics with RP-1/LOX in a few years. If they do that, they might have a man-worthy rocket here. If they can get some extra payload capacity out of it, well the Apollo CSM was only about 15,000kg, and things might get interesting.

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