{"id":297594,"date":"2024-05-31T18:54:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T13:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=297594"},"modified":"2024-05-31T18:54:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T13:24:46","slug":"agnibaan-suborbital-technological-demonstrator-sorted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/agnibaan-suborbital-technological-demonstrator-sorted\/","title":{"rendered":"Agnibaan SubOrbital Technological Demonstrator (SOrTeD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source-<\/strong>\u00a0This post on<strong> Agnibaan SubOrbital Technological Demonstrator (SOrTeD)<\/strong>\u00a0has been created based on the article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/84921\/OPS\/G2BCS5M2P.1+G7ACS7UA5.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u201cStart-up Agnikul launches world\u2019s first rocket with fully 3D-printed engine&#8221; <\/strong><\/a>published in\u00a0<strong>\u201cThe Hindu\u201d<\/strong> on 31 May 2024.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why in News?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Agnikul Cosmos Private Ltd. recently launched the Agnibaan Sub Orbital Technology Demonstrator (SOrTeD) from Sriharikota.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">About Agnibaan SubOrbital Technological Demonstrator (SOrTeD)<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/84921\/OPS\/Public\/G2BCS5M2P.1%2BG7ACS7UBD.1.jpg?resize=474%2C257&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Agnibaan SubOrbital Technological Demonstrator (SOrTeD)\" width=\"474\" height=\"257\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The hindu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 24.0316%;\"><strong>Aspect<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 75.9684%;\"><strong>Description<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 24.0316%;\">About<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 75.9684%;\">Agnibaan SOrTeD is a<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> single-stage rocket<\/span> equipped with the Agnilet engine which is a proprietary technology of AgniKul.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 24.0316%;\">Uniqueness<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 75.9684%;\">The engine is fully <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">3D-printed, single-piece, and semi-cryogenic,<\/span> delivering 6 kilonewtons (kN) of thrust.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 24.0316%;\">Launch Mechanism<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 75.9684%;\">Unlike conventional sounding rockets that use guide rails, Agnibaan SOrTeD launches <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">vertically<\/span>, following a<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> pre-programmed trajectory<\/span> to execute specific flight maneuvers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 24.0316%;\">Specifications and Capabilities<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 75.9684%;\">1. The rocket can be configured as a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">single or two-stage launcher,<\/span> depending on mission requirements.<br \/>\n2. It <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">stands 18 meters tall, weighs 14,000 kg, and is capable of carrying payloads up to 100 kg<\/span> to an altitude of 700 km in one of five different configurations.<br \/>\n3.The<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> first stage<\/span> can host up to seven Agnilet engines, fueled by<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Liquid Oxygen and Kerosene.<\/span><br \/>\n4. It is designed to be launched from <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">over 10 different launch ports<\/span> worldwide.<br \/>\n5. AgniKul developed<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> a versatile launch pedestal named &#8216;Dhanush&#8217;<\/span> to accommodate various launch sites and this enhances the rocket&#8217;s mobility across its configurations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>UPSC Syllabus: Science and technology<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source-\u00a0This post on Agnibaan SubOrbital Technological Demonstrator (SOrTeD)\u00a0has been created based on the article\u00a0\u201cStart-up Agnikul launches world\u2019s first rocket with fully 3D-printed engine&#8221; published in\u00a0\u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 31 May 2024. Why in News? The Agnikul Cosmos Private Ltd. recently launched the Agnibaan Sub Orbital Technology Demonstrator (SOrTeD) from Sriharikota. About Agnibaan SubOrbital Technological Demonstrator (SOrTeD)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/agnibaan-suborbital-technological-demonstrator-sorted\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Agnibaan SubOrbital Technological Demonstrator (SOrTeD)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11959],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-297594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-defence","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297594","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\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}