{"id":3502,"date":"2023-03-01T05:39:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T00:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T07:16:52","slug":"what-is-ce-20-cryogenic-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-ce-20-cryogenic-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"What is CE-20 cryogenic engine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About CE-20 Cryogenic Engine:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It has been <strong>designed and developed by the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC<\/strong>) , a subsidiary of ISRO.<\/li>\n<li>It will <strong>power the Cryogenic Upper Stage of the LVM3<\/strong> <strong>launch vehicl<\/strong>e for the <strong>Chandrayaan-3 mission.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>first Indian cryogenic engine to feature a gas-generator cycle.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is one of the most <strong>powerful upper-stage cryogenic engines in the world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This engine develops a <strong>nominal thrust of 186.36 kN in vacuum<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is a Cryogenic stage?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The cryogenic stage is technically a very <strong>complex system<\/strong> due to its <strong>use of propellants at extremely low temperatures<\/strong> and the associated thermal and structural problems.<\/li>\n<li>It uses <strong>liquid fuels that are cooled to very low temperatures<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A Cryogenic rocket stage is <strong>more efficient<\/strong> and <strong>provides more thrust for every kilogram of propellant it burns<\/strong> compared to solid and earth-storable liquid propellant rocket stages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Chandrayaan-3 Mission:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Chandrayaan-3 is <strong>India\u2019s third moon mission<\/strong> and is a follow-on mission to Chandrayaan-2 to demonstrate <strong>end-to-end capability in safe landing and roving on the lunar surface.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Chandrayaan-3 mission has <strong>three major modules<\/strong> \u2014 the <strong>Propulsion module, Lander module, and Rover<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The mission is slated to be launched <strong>later this year by Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LMV3)<\/strong> from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the vision of ISRO?<\/h3>\n<p>The vision of the Indian Space Research organisation is to harness, sustain and augment space technology for national development, while pursuing space science research and planetary exploration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/isro-successfully-conducts-key-test-for-chandrayaan-3-mission\/article66563098.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>ISRO successful in key test for India\u2019s third moon mission<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CE-20 cryogenic engine is the first Indian cryogenic engine to feature a gas-generator cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}