Sounding Rockets pursuing the Suborbital Space Exploration Services missions for Research Academia, Students and Government Organizations.

1. Sounding Rockets
Rocket Propulsion and Space
Technology Department

2. Executive Summary
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Introduction Engenious Aerospace Ltd is a Public limited company. Expertise to design and develop Rocket Propulsion
Systems, Sounding Rocket and Launch Vehicle Engines. In JV with defence and private aerospace
establishments in Russian Federation, Ukraine and Argentina. EAL is dedicated to developing crucial
aerodynamically stable unguided category of Rockets (Sounding Rockets) for peaceful civilian missions.
Study of upper atmosphere and Space Research. Involving students in payload construction and launch
mission. Sounding Rockets refers to the rockets which do not orbit. They return back to the Earth with safe
research experiment readings on-board.
Rockets from Engenious provides innovative & low cost space access. Gives platform for space
exploration, innovation. Creates space awareness among civilians. and shaping a most leading industry of
Private commercial space launch industry in India.
Mission M1- Explore and Endeavour are more specific to their missions of meteorological research as well as
education purpose inspiring young minds to the space propulsion / engineering.
Objective Providing a tool to research community to access suborbital space. Making suborbital space exploration
economical, available through regular privately built space access systems.
The sounding rockets are first of its kind thoroughly built in India by private sector. Powered on sugar,
APCP and hybrid propellants which makes them safer, economical to launch. This facility is accessible to
students and all research industries. A series of Rockets M1- Explore, Endeavour and Shivastra-1 with
varied altitudes of 1 km 15km and 100 km respectively , were successfully developed, tested and publicly
demonstrated.
Achievements

3. Sounding Rocket
- “to sound” : to take measurement
(*Payload : Electric and magnetic field measurements, particle detection, Scramjet testing, Re-entry body testing,
Astronomical and solar telescopes, Multiple free-flying payload bodies, Microgravity, Air sampling, etc.,)
Small Launch Vehicle to carry a Payload* to suborbital space for
performing various scientific research activities.
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4. Applications
➢ Rocket applications for potential commercial market utility are:
➢ Meteorological Research Flights,
➢ Cloud seeding for artificial rain and hail suppression
➢ Astronomy and Microgravity Space Research payload of X-Ray,
Cosmic ray, plasma physics experiments, etc….
➢ Education: Problem Based Learning Solution.
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5. ➢ Cost Effective & Economical, as sugar is the Propellant
➢ Due to design, cost of launch will be economical as compared to
rockets launch facility made in USA and Europe
➢ High specific impulse
➢ Affordable space launch for individuals, educational universities
and research programs
Advantages of EAL’s Sounding Rocket over
other Rockets
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6. Geometry of Endeavour
Endeavour includes Ogival nose cone, three trapezoidal aft fins
and cylindrical body.
2100
Diameter
Wing Span
All dimensions are in mm
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7. Success Milestone - 100% Safe
Sugar propellant tested on 11th October ’13
Ignition System tested on 25th January ’15
System & multi stage tested on 28th August 2011
M1 Explorer (1 km)
Endeavour (15 km)
Shivastra – I (100 Km)
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8. Motor Performance
15 km Endeavour Rocket Booster Motor with Sugar Propellant:
➢ Grain mass : 6.113 kg,
➢ Total Impulse : 7764.3 N.sec,
➢ Average thrust : 3610 N,
➢ Thrust time : 2.151 sec,
➢ Specific Impulse : 129.5 sec,
➢ Motor Classification : M 3610
➢ Mission Performance
➢ Flight Speed : 630 m/s
➢ Effective Exhaust Velocity : 1.221 km/s
➢ Initial mass : 22 kg
➢ Final mass : 13 kg
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9. Two Stage Sounding Rocket at Space Port America 2017
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11. Future Research
Engenious Aerospace Ltd aims to provide India’s first private sector’s Low Cost Commercial
Suborbital space launch services (100 – 350 km) for Suborbital space exploration.
Endeavour takes off with supersonic boom.
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12. Thank You
Rajesh Muneshwar
B-Class Rocket Propulsion
Scientist,
Technical Director,
Engenious Aerospace Ltd,
Navi Mumbai, Republic of India
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Ajay Vikram Singh
Aircraft Design and Rocket
Propulsion Engineer
Marine and Mechanical Engineer,
Gaziabad,
UttarPradesh,
India
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