GSLV-F10
Why in News?
- GSLV-F10 rocket failed its mission to put into orbit the Earth Observation Satellite(EOS-03).
What was the mission’s aim?
- It was expected to provide near real-time imaging of a large area of interest at frequent intervals, episodic events and any short-term events, to monitor natural disasters from its position in the sky and to provide warnings for natural disasters, observe cyclones, cloudbursts, thunderclouds etc.
- The mission life of the satellite was 10 years.
- EOS-3 was the first state-of-art agile Earth Observation Satellite which would have been placed in a geo-synchronous orbit around the Earth.
About GSLV Mark II
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- The first stage of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) is solid fuel, the second is liquid fuel (using Vikas Engine) and the third the cryogenic engine.
- Cryogenic stage uses liquefied oxygen and hydrogen as fuel.
- The GSLV Mark II is the largest launch vehicle built by India until now.
- It can launch satellites that will travel in orbits that are synchronous with the Earth’s orbit.
- These satellites can weigh up to 2,500 kg and are first launched into transfer orbits that have a distance from Earth of 170 km at closest approach and about 35,975 km at furthest approach which is close to the height of the geosynchronous orbit.
- From this transfer orbit, the satellite gets set free into a geosynchronous orbit.
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