NGLV
# NGLV

The Next-Gen Launch Vehicle (NGLV) is a three stage partially reusable rocket, currently under development by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). This vehicle is designed to replace operational systems like the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).

The rocket is being designed to carry a 10-tonne payload in earth's Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) or nearly 20 Tonnes to low earth orbit in its expendable form.

## History

Speaking to presspersons at the SMOPS-2023 International Conference on Spacecraft Mission Operations, ISRO chairman S. Somnath said that the architecture for Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO), Next Generation Launch Vehicle (NGLV) had been finalized. With the team working on the NGLV programme had already submitted a preliminary report focusing on what the rocket should look like. The new vehicle would be partially reusable and that its boosters should be reusable.

NGLV will feature a simple, robust design which allows bulk manufacturing, modularity in systems, sub-systems and stages and minimal turnaround time. Potential use cases will be in the areas of launching communication satellites, deep space missions, future human spaceflight and cargo missions.

The NGLV might turn out to be a three-stage rocket powered by green fuel combinations, like kerosene and liquid oxygen or methane and liquid oxygen. As per a presentation done by Somanath at a recent conference in October, the NGLV might offer launch costs of approximately $1900 per kg of payload in the reusable form and nearly $3,000 per kg in the expendable format. The vehicle will also help in meeting India's needs of setting up its own space station by 2035.

