Agnikul Cosmos, a IIT Madras-based aerospace producer, launched the agency’s first rocket from India’s solely personal launchpad, which is positioned at Satish Dhawan House Centre, Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, on Might 30, 2024. Agnikul Cosmos had designed the launchpad, and is chargeable for its operation. It was inaugurated in November 2022. Agnikul Cosmos’s Agnibaan SOrTeD is the primary mission to be launched from the launchpad because it was inaugurated.
Agnibaan SOrTeD, the place SOrTeD stands for SubOrbital Technological Demonstrator, is a single-stage rocket powered by the Agnilet semi-cryogenic engine. It took off at 7:15 am IST on Might 30.
All concerning the mission
Conventional sounding rockets, also referred to as analysis or suborbital rockets, are launched utilizing information rails, that are tracks that information a rocket from its launch level into the air. Nonetheless, Agnibaan SOrTeD, regardless of being a standard sounding rocket, lifted off vertically. It additionally adopted a predetermined trajectory and carried out a exactly orchestrated set of manoeuvres throughout flight.
Agnibaan, which suggests “arrow of fireplace” in Sanskrit, is a customisable automobile. Agnikul Cosmos rigorously designed the rocket to make sure reliability, flexibility, controllability, and stability.
Agnibaan SOrTeD has one stage, however since Agnibaan is customisable, it may possibly have as much as three phases.
The liftoff mass of the three-stage Agnibaan is 14,000 kilograms, top is eighteen metres diameter is 1.3 metres, and the utmost weight of payloads it may possibly carry is 100 kilograms. Payloads may be carried as much as 700-kilometre low-Earth orbit.
The third stage known as the newborn stage, which is an elective stage positioned contained in the payload fairing, and has an envelope giant sufficient for many satellite tv for pc wants.
The second stage is powered by the Agnilet vacuum engine, the identical engine that powers the primary stage.
As many as seven Agnilet engines, every delivering 25 kiloNewtons of thrust, energy the primary stage, every operating on electrical energy.