Agnibaan SOrTeD : Launch Postponed
The launch of AgniKul ‘Agnibaan SOrTeD’ has been postponed.
- Agnibaan SubOrbital Technological Demonstrator (SOrTeD) is a single-stage launch vehicle powered by AgniKul’s patented Agnilet engine.
- It is the world’s first single piece 3D printed semi-cryogenic rocket engine.
- It will be launched from India’s first private launchpad, ALP-01, located inside the Indian space agency ISRO’s Sriharikota spaceport.
- It is India’s first ever vehicle equipped with a semicryogenic engine, the Agnilet, a subcooled liquid oxygen-based propulsion system developed indigenously.
- The rocket engine will burn kerosene in liquid oxygen and can be directly used in the rocket.
- It can carry a 100-kg payload up to a height of 700 km with a lift of mass of 14,000 Kgs.
- It can access both low- and high-inclination orbits and is completely mobile.
- It will also have the first ever Ethernet-based avionics architecture and fully in-house developed autopilot software from India.
- To ensure its compatibility with multiple launch ports, AgniKul has built a launch pedestal named ‘Dhanush’ that will support the rocket’s mobility across all its configurations.
