The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle commonly

known by its abbreviation PSLV, is

an expendable launch system developed and
operated by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO). It was developed to allow
India to launch its Indian Remote Sensing (IRS)
satellites into sun synchronous orbits, a
service that was, until the advent of the PSLV,
commercially available only from Russia. PSLV
can also launch small size satellites
into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO).
As of 2014 the PSLV has launched 71
spacecraft (31 Indian and 40 foreign satellites)
into a variety of orbits.Some notable payloads
launched by PSLV include
India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar probe and
the Mars Orbiter Mission.
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Electrothermal Nuclear
Electrostatic Solar thermal
Electrodynamic Laser
Antimatter

Solid Liquid Hybrid

Pressure Fed Pump Fed

Bipropellant Monopropellant
CLASSIFICATION OF ROCKETS
 Propellant
Gas Tank Primary or auxiliary propulsion.
High pressure gas (propellant) is
Fill
P Pressure fed to low pressure nozzles
Valve Gage through pressure regulator.
High Pressure Isolation Release of gas through nozzles
Valve
(thrusters) generates thrust.
Filter Currently used for momentum
management of the Spitzer Space
Pressure
Regulator telescope.
Low Pressure Propellants include nitrogen,
Isolation helium, nitrous oxide, butane.
Valve
Very simple in concept.
Thruster
LIQUID PROPELLANT ROCKET
 WORKING

+ Liquid fuel and liquid oxygen are grouped seperately into a combustion
chamberThrough control valves
 Nitrogen or helium Hydrazine fuel is most
common monopropellant.
Hydrazine N2H4
Decomposed in thruster
Propellant
Tank using catalyst to produce
hot gas for thrust.
Older systems used
Pressure
Fuel Fill Valve P
Gage
hydrogen peroxide before
the development of
Isolation Valve
hydrazine catalysts.
Filter Typically operate in
blowdown mode
(pressurant and fuel in
common tank).
Thrusters
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 A fuel and an oxidizer are fed to the
FUEL OX engine through an injector and
combust in the thrust chamber.
P P Hypergolic: no igniter needed --
propellants react on contact in
engine.
Isolation Valves Cryogenic propellants include LOX (-
423 F) and LH2 (-297 F).
Igniter required
Chamber Storable propellants include
kerosene (RP-1), hydrazine, nitrogen
Engine
tetroxide (N2O4),
monomethylhydrazine (MMH)
Nozzle
HYBRID PROPELLENT ROCKET ENGINE
ROCKET THRUST
FORMULA FOR ROCKETS