Isro to launch re-usable rockets

The Indian Space Research Organisation(Isro) is working on a plan to launch re-usable rockets within next 10 to 15 years that will take off from the ground to orbit and return just like any aircraft carrying people and payload, said G Madhvan Nair, Chairman of Isro.

“Isro will launch these re-usable rockets within next 10 to 15 years,” Nair told reporters on the sidelines of AV Rama Rao Technology Award Lecture on Advances in Space Materials on the occasion of National Technology Day celebrations at IICT here today.

Nair said the single stage orbit vehicle will take off from ground carrying people or payload and return.

“The concept will be like space shuttle but with a different configuration. For this Isro is working required technology,” he said.

He said Isro is tuned to developing programmes to solve the people’s problems like better communication system, imaging planet earth, improving resolution capability, improving radar composition, developing technology for satellites, and forecasting weather that will give information to villagers of the type of soil, ocean and fishing activity.

Nair said this year three satellites-home grown cryogenic engine on Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), and two PSLVs will be launched. The PSLV will carry Ocean SAT in addition to Scatrometre that will provide information of the tidal wave heights useful for fishermen, interaction of the ocean with atmosphere besides other ocean related information.