{"id":6715,"date":"2023-03-27T10:10:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T04:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6715"},"modified":"2025-03-27T16:33:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:03:37","slug":"launch-vehicle-mark-3lvm-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/launch-vehicle-mark-3lvm-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch Vehicle Mark- 3(LVM-3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Launch Vehicle Mark- 3(LVM-3):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was previously known as <strong>the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle<\/strong> <strong>(GSLV)<\/strong> Mark\u2013III.<\/li>\n<li>The recent launching of 36 satellites was the sixth launch of India\u2019s heaviest rocket LVM-3.<\/li>\n<li>It was the second dedicated commercial satellite mission undertaken by Space PSU <strong>NewSpace India Limited (NSIL)<\/strong> for Network Access Associates Ltd (OneWeb).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is GSLV?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>3-stage space launch<\/strong> vehicle operated by the ISRO to launch satellites and other space objects into Geosynchronous Transfer Orbits (GTO ~37,000 km).<\/li>\n<li>The third stage of this vehicle uses a <strong>Cryogenic engine<\/strong>, which uses liquefied oxygen and hydrogen as fuel.<\/li>\n<li>It has been designed for launching<strong> communication satellites.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>GSLV delivers satellites into a higher elliptical orbit &#8211; GTO.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is<\/strong> <strong>NewSpace India Limited (NSIL?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a Central Public Sector Enterprise established in 2019.<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>second commercial entity of the Department of Space<\/strong> (DoS) after Antrix Corporation Limited, which was set up in 1992 to market the products and services of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mandate<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Transfer technology to industry for producing commercially successful PSLV spacecraft launchers.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Outsource assembly of small satellites and the upcoming Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV).<\/li>\n<li>To commercially exploit the R&amp;D work done by ISRO centres and DoS constituents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a cryogenic engine?<\/h3>\n<p>A cryogenic engine\/cryogenic stage is the last stage of space launch vehicles which makes use of cryogenics to store its fuel and oxidiser as liquids instead of gas. In space, there is a lack of air, including oxygen, which means it is impossible to burn anything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/lvm-3-puts-36-oneweb-satellites-in-orbit-firm-completes-leo-constellation\/articleshow\/99005133.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Isro&#8217;s LVM-3 puts 36 satellites in orbit, and OneWeb completes completes LEO constellation<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launch Vehicle Mark- 3 was previously known as the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark\u2013III.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6715","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\/6715","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=6715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}