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India to have five rocket launches, including Mars mission, in 2013
Monday May 06, 2013 03:03:56 PM, Venkatachari
Jagannathan,
IANS
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Chennai: India's space
agency is planning to have a total of five rocket launches in 2013
from its rocket launch pad at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh,
around 80 km from here. This will include a mission to Mars later
this year.
Four of the launches are expected to happen between June and
December, including the launch of communication satellite G-Sat 14
using heavier rocket - Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV)
- powered with a domestic cryogenic engine.
"Between June 10 and 15 we are planning to launch the first
navigational satellite, Indian Regional Navigation Satellite
System-R1A (IRNSS-R1A) and it will be followed by the launch of
G-Sat 14 some time in July," a senior official at Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO) told IANS, preferring anonymity.
According to officials, the assembling of two rockets is going on
at a good pace at the rocket launch centre. The Polar Satellite
Launch Vehicle-XL (PSLV-XL) version that will carry the navigation
satellite is being assembled at the first launch pad.
"The assembling of the first stage/engine and the strap on motors
has been completed. The second stage is under preparation. The
satellite is expected soon from the satellite centre in
Bangalore," officials said.
The IRNSS-R1A satellite will be the first of seven satellites to
be launched into earth orbit to provide real-time position,
navigation and time services to multiple users. The space agency
plans to launch the second navigation satellite three months after
in-orbit tests of the first one and the remaining five satellites
over a 14-month period by 2014-15.
These two launches will be followed by the mission to Mars later
this year. The launch of one more remote sensing satellite is also
being planned before the end of this year.
In February this year India launched the Indo-French Saral
satellite and six other small foreign satellites using the PSLV
rocket.
India started putting into space third-party satellites for a fee
in 1999 on its PSLV-C2 rocket. Since then India has been
successful in launching medium-weight satellites for overseas
agencies. Initially ISRO started carrying third-party satellites
atop PSLV rockets as co-passengers of its own remote sensing/earth
observation satellites.
In 2007 ISRO for the first time launched an Italian satellite -
Agile - as a standalone for a fee.
India has earned a revenue of $17.17 million and euro 32.28
million by launching 35 foreign satellites till date, parliament
was told recently by V. Narayanasamy, Minister of State in the
Prime Minister's Office.
"Some customers paid in dollars and some in euros and hence we are
giving it separately," an ISRO official said.
(Venkatachari
Jagannathan can be contacted at v.jagannathan@ians.in)
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