{"id":203592,"date":"2022-09-05T18:45:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T13:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=203592"},"modified":"2022-09-05T18:45:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T13:15:39","slug":"isro-tests-system-to-recover-spent-rocket-stages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isro-tests-system-to-recover-spent-rocket-stages\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO tests system to recover spent rocket stages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cISRO tests system to recover spent rocket stages\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 4th September 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Space Research Organization<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(ISRO) has successfully demonstrated the new technology with Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (IAD).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This could<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> aid the cost-effective recovery of spent rocket stages and safely land payloads on other planets.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is an Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator(IAD)?\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator or IAD is a technique used <\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to decelerate an object plunging down through the atmosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is ISRO\u2019s IAD?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ISRO\u2019s Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator(IAD) was designed and developed by Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre(VSSC) on a Rohini-300 (RH300 Mk II) sounding rocket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u200b\u200b<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IAD was initially folded and kept inside the payload bay of the rocket. At around 84 km altitude, the IAD was inflated and it descended through the atmosphere with the payload part of the sounding rocket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IAD has systematically reduced the velocity of the payload through aerodynamic drag and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">followed the predicted trajectory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is the first instance where an IAD has been specially created for spent stage recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Where does ISRO intend to use IAD?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The IAD will help ISRO in performing many space tasks effectively including recovery of spent stages of rockets, for landing payloads on missions to other planetary bodies.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cISRO tests system to recover spent rocket stages\u201d published in The Hindu on 4th September 2022. What is the News? Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO) has successfully demonstrated the new technology with Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (IAD).\u00a0 This could aid the cost-effective recovery of spent rocket stages and safely&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isro-tests-system-to-recover-spent-rocket-stages\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISRO tests system to recover spent rocket stages<\/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":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-203592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704675656},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203592","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=203592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}