(July 02, 2009)
Indonesian home grown RX-420 rocket launching test has been done successfully into space by LAPAN or Lembaga Antariksa dan Penerbangan Nasional (English: National Institute of Aeronautics and Space) in Southern region of Garut Regency, West Java (toward Indian Ocean) this morning, July 02, 2009. This experiment not only for scientific purposes but also for military. Future mission, Defense Ministry will exploit this test result to be local guided missile for missile shield as an alternative ground defense force. In this occasion, there were three launching rockets, one RX-420 by Dr. Adi Sadewo (LAPAN’s chairman) and two RX-100 by BPPT (Badan Pusat Pengembangan Teknologi) – Centre For Research and Development’s chairman and a representative official of PT DI under tight security control.
Indonesian Defense Minister, Juwono Sudarsono said that Defense Office is still calculating the cost comparison between ground guided missile development budget and main armament supplying budget, such as air fighter and ship.
Previously, Science and Technology Minister, Kusmayanto Kadiman said that this morning test launched the biggest rocket so far by Indonesian and used the greatest amount of propellant (solid) fuel. He added, cruise range of RX-420 rocket may reach up to 100 kilometers and its speed was 4 times of sound speed so this experiment also to test the rocket to move from subsonic to supersonic speed with temperature may up to 1,200 deg C. Most of material were originated from Indonesia, including the solid fuel. This also to avoid the protest and embargo from any other countries.
LAPAN’s spokesperson, Elly Kuntjahyowati said that this test is a part of LAPAN’s ambition to launch their micro satellite in 2014 with Indonesian local SLV. RX-420 as booster rocket and combined with RX-320 are designed to have cruise range about 3,600 kms.
RX-420 rocket fabrication took three months only, with specification as follows: 420 mm diameter, 1,000 kgs launching load, 6,200 mm long, fuel solid, 13 secs combustion time, 205 secs departure tim, 4,5 mach maximum speed, 101 kms predicted cruise distance range, 53 kms predicted vertical distance and with load: diagnostic tool, GPS, altitude-meter, gyro, 3-axis accelerometer, processor and baterai.
Meanwhile for RX-100 specs as follows: 110 mm diameter, 30 kgs launching load, 1900 mm long, fuel solid, 2,5 secs combustion time, 70 secs cruise time, 1,7 mach maximum speed, 11 kms predicted cruise distance range, 7 kms predicted vertical distance and with load: diagnostic tool, GPS, altitudemeter, gyro, 3-axis accelerometer, processor and baterai.
Video that covered by national local TV
This launching news has attracted some foreign media int their website, such as The Straits Times Singapore, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), Chinese People’s Daily Online, nasdaq.com, AFP and so on.
Source: nasional.vivanews.com, tempointeraktif.com
Note: There is no picture yet, will update soon once available.
http://indomil.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/indonesian-rocket-institute-successfully-launched-rx-420-rocket-this-morning-july-02-2009/
Indonesian home grown RX-420 rocket launching test has been done successfully into space by LAPAN or Lembaga Antariksa dan Penerbangan Nasional (English: National Institute of Aeronautics and Space) in Southern region of Garut Regency, West Java (toward Indian Ocean) this morning, July 02, 2009. This experiment not only for scientific purposes but also for military. Future mission, Defense Ministry will exploit this test result to be local guided missile for missile shield as an alternative ground defense force. In this occasion, there were three launching rockets, one RX-420 by Dr. Adi Sadewo (LAPAN’s chairman) and two RX-100 by BPPT (Badan Pusat Pengembangan Teknologi) – Centre For Research and Development’s chairman and a representative official of PT DI under tight security control.
Indonesian Defense Minister, Juwono Sudarsono said that Defense Office is still calculating the cost comparison between ground guided missile development budget and main armament supplying budget, such as air fighter and ship.
Previously, Science and Technology Minister, Kusmayanto Kadiman said that this morning test launched the biggest rocket so far by Indonesian and used the greatest amount of propellant (solid) fuel. He added, cruise range of RX-420 rocket may reach up to 100 kilometers and its speed was 4 times of sound speed so this experiment also to test the rocket to move from subsonic to supersonic speed with temperature may up to 1,200 deg C. Most of material were originated from Indonesia, including the solid fuel. This also to avoid the protest and embargo from any other countries.
LAPAN’s spokesperson, Elly Kuntjahyowati said that this test is a part of LAPAN’s ambition to launch their micro satellite in 2014 with Indonesian local SLV. RX-420 as booster rocket and combined with RX-320 are designed to have cruise range about 3,600 kms.
RX-420 rocket fabrication took three months only, with specification as follows: 420 mm diameter, 1,000 kgs launching load, 6,200 mm long, fuel solid, 13 secs combustion time, 205 secs departure tim, 4,5 mach maximum speed, 101 kms predicted cruise distance range, 53 kms predicted vertical distance and with load: diagnostic tool, GPS, altitude-meter, gyro, 3-axis accelerometer, processor and baterai.
Meanwhile for RX-100 specs as follows: 110 mm diameter, 30 kgs launching load, 1900 mm long, fuel solid, 2,5 secs combustion time, 70 secs cruise time, 1,7 mach maximum speed, 11 kms predicted cruise distance range, 7 kms predicted vertical distance and with load: diagnostic tool, GPS, altitudemeter, gyro, 3-axis accelerometer, processor and baterai.
Video that covered by national local TV
This launching news has attracted some foreign media int their website, such as The Straits Times Singapore, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), Chinese People’s Daily Online, nasdaq.com, AFP and so on.
Source: nasional.vivanews.com, tempointeraktif.com
Note: There is no picture yet, will update soon once available.
http://indomil.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/indonesian-rocket-institute-successfully-launched-rx-420-rocket-this-morning-july-02-2009/
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