Click to play videoBangalore: After the success of mission Chandrayaan, ISRO to launch a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) - that will be powered by an indigenous cryogenic engine on April 15.
With the launch India would join an elite club of countries that have this sophisticated technology. The cryogenic engines are more efficient and provide more thrust. It will help ISRO launch heavier satellites in the future. In fact in the 90s, the US had prevented Russia from transferring cryogenic technology to India.
“We're talking about a technology that only five countries in the world possess today. It’s a technology which one country prevented another country from transferring which are the geo-political ramifications of this technology," said ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan.
For ISRO, developing the technology was critical for its plans to launch more sophisticated satellites.
“We got seven stages from Russia but if we have to continue our program and to launch communication satellites, transponders in the orbit, we need to have this technology. So it was imperative for us to develop it and we're realising this in India," added Radhakrishnan.
On April 15, ISRO will launch an advanced communication satellite - the GSAT- 4. With the cryogenic technology now powering it, the space agency will be launching many more sophisticated satellites in the future.
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