India Launches First Reusable Hybrid Rocket ‘RHUMI-1’ for Climate Change Data Collection

The first Reusable Hybrid Manned Indian rocket

India Launches First Reusable Hybrid Rocket: The first Reusable Hybrid Manned Indian rocket RHUMI 1 has been successfully launched by a start up from Tamil Nadu on Saturday. From the mobile launch pad located in Thiruvidandhai, Chennai, the rocket has been mainly for increasing research on the issues of global warming and climate change.

The RHUMI rocket that was launched from Thiruvidanthai on the East Coast Road near Chennai in the early hours of today is driven by a hybrid motor with generic fuel and her parachute release is through an electrically triggered mechanism.

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What rocket carry and why?

The rocket launched this morning had three CUBE satellites with the function of tracking and collecting information about the conditions in the atmosphere including the cosmic radiation intensity and UV radiation, air quality indicators.

Further in, it launched 50 Pico satellites to study diverse conditions of the atmosphere such as accelerometer measurements, height, and O3 to analyse more tendencies.

Who is behind Mission RHUMI 2024?

Mission RHUMI 2024 is led by Anand Megalingam, founder of Space Zone India with technical consultation given by ISRO veteran, Mylswamy Annadurai, who served as Director of ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC) as well as project director of India’s Moon Mission “Chandrayaan”.

Space Zone India is aerospace technology company situated in Chennai and provides optimized and efficient solutions in the space domain by cost effective and long term solutions.

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Space Zone India Pvt Ltd is India’s leading space tourism company whose mission is to establish its RuBharata 1, RuBharata 2 and RuBharata 3 by 2024 through Mission RHUMI have been supported by the Corporate Social Responsibility of Martin Group of Companies which is a large conglomerate firm.

More about the launch

The rocket was 3.5 meters tall and was launched at about 7.25 am, five minutes behind the planned launching time of 7.00 am.

Originally developed as a sounding rocket, it got to an altitude of just about 35 kilometres. The team is on-site to recover it, it is a rocket that is reusable.

To manage the risk from strong winds and gusts, the rocket at Space Launch Complex 16 in the essentially embarked area was launched at a 70-degree inclination instead of the 89-degree inclination that was planned and the rocket used a mobile launcher near the coast.

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