We wish to restart cryogenic stage in flight for mission benefits: ISRO chief

Dr V Narayanan, Chairman, ISRO. File
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A day after ISRO efficiently carried out the ignition trial of the indigenous CE20 cryogenic engine, its Chairman and Secretary of Division of Area V Narayanan on Saturday (February 8, 2025) mentioned that the check could be advantageous to missions.

The Chairman additionally mentioned there have been no glitches as reported within the media in ISRO’s first Area Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) mission.

“We wish to restart the cryogenic stage within the flight for mission benefits. So, we not too long ago carried out a check in direction of that,” Narayanan advised PTI on the sidelines of the fifteenth Biennial Version of Aero India Worldwide Seminar 2025, held in Bengaluru.

On February 7, ISRO efficiently carried out the ignition trial of the indigenous CE20 cryogenic engine powering the higher stage of LVM3, with a multi-element igniter underneath vacuum circumstances, which simulates the engine ignition within the vacuum situation of area. This check was carried out within the Excessive-Altitude Check Facility at ISRO Propulsion Complicated in Mahendragiri, Tamil Nadu.

In response to an ISRO launch, throughout this check, the ignition of the engine Thrust Chamber was carried out with a multi-element igniter in vacuum, underneath the tank strain circumstances which can be anticipated to prevail on the time of restarting the cryogenic engine in flight.

The efficiency of the engine and the ability throughout the check was regular and as anticipated, it added.

On experiences within the media on glitches within the SpaDeX mission, Narayanan mentioned, “No glitches, proper now it’s docked. We’re going step-by-step. We’re finding out after which we’re planning on doing a number of experiments.” On January 16, the area company efficiently carried out the docking of satellites as a part of the Area Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) and it additionally introduced that submit docking, management of two satellites as a single object was profitable. On this mission, NVS-02 navigation satellite tv for pc was efficiently injected into the meant Geosynchronous Switch Orbit.

However on February 2, ISRO issued an replace stating that the orbit elevating operations in direction of positioning the satellite tv for pc to the designated orbital slot couldn’t be carried out because the valves for admitting the oxidizer to fireplace the thrusters for orbit elevating didn’t open.

The ISRO chairman was the chief visitor at Aero India Worldwide Seminar 2025. This 12 months, the worldwide convention on army airworthiness explored the subject ‘futuristic aerospace applied sciences: challenges in design validation’.