NEXT SPACEFLIGHT
NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Suborbital
Success

CARE (Demo Flight)

Launch Time
Thu Dec 18, 2014 04:00 UTC

First flight of GSLV Mk III.

Rocket

LVM-3
Image Credit: ISRO
ISRO
Status: Active
Price: $62.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 11,898 kN
Payload to LEO: 10,000 kg
Payload to GTO: 4,000 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 2
Rocket Height: 43.4 m
Fairing Diameter: 5.0 m
Details

Mission Details

CARE

The CARE is a mock-up of the planned Indian crewed space capsule. Its mission is to study re-entry and thermal behaviour. CARE does not have the pressure-vessel of the final capsule, but is only a structural mock-up. It will re-enter and land in the bay of Bengal to be retrieved.

For the suborbital flight, it is mounted upside-down inside the payload fairing.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 3,735.0 kg
Suborbital
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Location

Second Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

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Stats

Indian Space Research Organisation

45th mission
5th mission of 2014
33rd successful mission
13th consecutive successful mission

LVM-3

1st mission
1st mission of 2014
1st successful mission