Indian Space Station or ISRO Space Station
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is planning to launch its own space station. India would be the fourth country to launch a space station as the US and Russia have already launched their space stations and China is planning to launch it in 2020. The International Space Station (ISS), which launched its first piece in 1998, is a large spacecraft that orbits around the Earth and is home to the astronauts. The ISS is currently the only active space station in the earth’s orbit.
Today we will learn about the ISRO this year at the HSF conference they showed off their space stations concept model Sent to me by Dr. Siddarth Pandey, proff at Amity They name it Indian Space Station since it will be short for ISS then...
Maybe Bharat Space Station then (BSS)?
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| Indian Space Station |
We will talk about the details like launch date , weight , orbit , launch vehicle ......
But i need you to set your expectations I have seen many unfortunate videos on youtube India the Typical cringe Indian Space videos Who have spoiled the Indian Space Communities name They show the International space station and tell us how we are going to make a space station as big as ISS Billions of dollars are required to build a space station on that scale and many co
Indian space news untries contributed money to it
ISRO also can make a space station of that scale no doubt but you require too much money
And when we are doing such a large project its important to learn 1st on a smaller scale and then make it bigger .
What is core module ?
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| Gaganyaan core module |
Its not like making 5 minute noodles Such videos dramatically increase expectations from people and when they don't see what they expected they start abusing or bad calling
beware and report such videos as misleading Now let's talk about the real thing
as you can see this is a modular space station modular meaning it will launch in parts and than get assembled this entirely can't be sent in one launch 2 similar parts and the between part is different ignore my Gaganyaan crew module because modelling is in progress
let's talk about each part individually let's start with the center module
we'll call it core module
as you can see , it has 6 docking ports so we now have a minimum of 6 docking ports this will be the part from which the station will begin to expand.
most likely this will be launched after the habitat module.
this will require its own control/avionics /fuel and some thrusts to keep itself in orbit
a suspicious module is attached below the yellow color one we can only speculate on what it is exactly maybe it's an inflatable habitat module but we dont if ISRO is working on it maybe its just a storage module to store things open to speculation, you can let me know in the comments what you think it is so this was our core module
fuel and control is important especially while docking well talk about docking later on
Next is the habitat module
calling it the habitat module because people are going to live in it its like a big cylinder
curves as it approaches the core module there is a docking port behind the module where Gaganyaan will dock
as you saw in the start
it has big solar panels on top and bottom they will help produce power to the whole station this also will require its own fuel and control systems 4 white sheets you can see?
those are radiators .
why radiators ?
In space one side of the station will be sun lit meaning it will be very hot
other side will be relatively dark it will be very cold
radiators hence used to maintain the temperature of the station and science equipment they are very critical
ISRO might have this tech
gagaganyaans service module where it has 4 solar panels that also will have radiators behind the solar panel to cool the Gaganyaan cabin and instruments this module will ben launched speerately....
it has to have its own fuel so it can dock.
how will ISRO practice docking?
1st habitat should be launched( mistake speaking ) then the core then the 2nd copy
this will autonomously dock with the core meaning attach itself with it
to practice this...
ISRO is going to perform a mission called SPADEX meaning Space Docking Experiment
where it will send 2 small satellites on the PSLV and they will dock autonomously in space i hope they are International Docking Adapters because in the future if we...
if we want to dock this with a module of the ISS or dock another international vehicle with this we could do it same with Gaganyaan
so this was the basic part .
It can hold 2 to 4 people in it approx for about 20 days after that ?
Not sure it will need fuel for rebooting
it's heavy and it will go to an about 400 km orbit and on a inclination
it might deorbit after some time if not boosted it will need fuel to maintain itself in orbit or it will come crashing down back
it weighs roughly 20 tonnes they say we could consider 10 tonnes per habitat module this could change
ill tell you the launch date
let's discuss the rocket 1st
since this is about 10 tonnes and going to LEO this could be launched by the GSLV MK3 our current most powerful rocket
but by the time it launches our HLV( heavy launch vehicle ) might be ready if you want to know about HLV, planned to launch around 2030
looks cool to be honest
almost 6 docking ports available at one time we can make expand this in the future can we do it in 2030 ?
After 1st Gaganyaan launch ?
then the government will be serious about this maybe now a little is alloted for like design maybe?
we'll see when the budget arrives
problem is when we will be making our space station...
or when we'll be in it's final stages the world will be on the moon with humans NASA may land and start moon base construction China might also land with humans on the moon by then but ISRO does not involve itself in competition just because china has done , ISRO will do what is in it's best interest and nations interest in its available resources maybe this space station is never made, maybe we join NASA's Artemis Program and we are on the moon
before china
can't really say ... there is a decade to go.....
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