{"id":118863,"date":"2021-07-16T20:53:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T15:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=118863"},"modified":"2021-07-17T12:34:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T07:04:30","slug":"isro-successfully-conducts-test-of-vikas-engine-for-gaganyaan-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isro-successfully-conducts-test-of-vikas-engine-for-gaganyaan-program\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO successfully conducts test of Vikas Engine for Gaganyaan Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=ISRO-successfully-conducts-long-duration-hot-test-of-Vikas-Engine-for-Gaganyaan-Program&amp;id=421930\">AIR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) <\/strong>has successfully conducted the third long-duration hot test of the liquid propellant Vikas engine for the Gaganyaan programme.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Vikas Engine:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Vikas <\/strong>is a family of liquid fuelled rocket engines conceptualized and designed by the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre(LPSC) in the 1970s.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>LPSC<\/strong> is a research and development centre functioning under Indian Space Research Organisation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The engine is used in the <\/strong>Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle(PSLV) and the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle(GSLV) series of expendable launch vehicles for space launch use.<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISRO <\/strong>tested the Vikas Engine this time as part of the engine qualification requirements for the Gaganyaan Mission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>About Gaganyaan Mission:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gaganyaan <\/strong>is India\u2019s first Human Space Flight Programme to be launched by the ISRO.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim<\/strong>: The mission aims to demonstrate ISRO\u2019s capability to send humans to low-earth orbit onboard an Indian launch vehicle and bring them back to Earth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The first unmanned <\/strong>flight is likely to be launched in 2021 and the second demonstration launch could happen in 2022-23 before ISRO finally launches a full-scale manned mission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: AIR What is the News? Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) has successfully conducted the third long-duration hot test of the liquid propellant Vikas engine for the Gaganyaan programme. About Vikas Engine: Vikas is a family of liquid fuelled rocket engines conceptualized and designed by the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre(LPSC) in the 1970s. LPSC is a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isro-successfully-conducts-test-of-vikas-engine-for-gaganyaan-program\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISRO successfully conducts test of Vikas Engine for Gaganyaan Program<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9,1227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","category-science-and-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}