The Hindu Business Line : `Cryo engine is flight-ready'

The cryogenic engine being developed by ISRO has cleared the last test and is fully ready for use on an actual flight next year, the space agency said in a release here. The cryo engine passed the flight acceptance hot test lasting a planned 200 seconds on Thursday. "All the propulsion parameters during the test were found satisfactory and closely matching with predictions," the release said. "The cryogenic engine will be further integrated with propellant tanks, stage structures and associated feed lines to realise the first fully integrated indigenous flight by the middle of 2009," ISRO said. This puts India into the small `ryo club' that includes only the US, Russia, Europe and Japan. The test was conducted at the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre facility at Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu. The final ground test was conducted in November 2007. - Our Bureau

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