Australia allowed Vietnamese spacecraft to first bring people to space in May

The first 'spaceship' piloted by a group of young Vietnamese engineers, led by Pham Gia Vinh, will take people to space in May 2018.

Answering Reporter, Master Pham Gia Vinh, the head of the manufacturing team said that basically the cooperation between Dong Giang Vietnam and the Australian authorities to bring people to the stratosphere has been obtained by the Aviation Safety Department Civil Australia (CASA) agrees.

Previously, according to Australia's safety regulations, all equipment must have backup. Therefore, in January 2018, the project team tested the recovery plan with double parachutes. This requires careful calculation of the parallel parachute arrangement, so that the two parachutes are fully opened without affecting the other.

The test must ensure that if one is not open, the other is still enough to bring the device down with safe speed for the pilot.

Therefore, in 1/2018, the research group of Pham Gia Vinh proved the safe recovery method though CASA.

'The flight test went well. We didn't have any problems , 'said Pham Gia Vinh, master of information.

Mr. Vinh informed that the double-use for the stratosphere is not a precedent, so the project team must design from the beginning and have to consider the options to choose the optimal and safe design. most complete.

'Our solution is good so it meets CASA's safety requirements , ' Vinh told PV.

As soon as the test was successful, Dong Giang Vietnam Company applied for a flyer. It is expected that the time for deploying and flying shall be people in May 2018

Pham Gia Vinh and flying aircraft with a flying ceiling of nearly 30 km were researched and produced by his colleagues and his colleagues.

Master Pham Gia Vinh further informed, the team is currently selecting foreign candidates to fly test-piloted.

'We will choose an alien pilot from the profile of 3 candidates. However, it was almost time for us to fly to reveal who it was. Currently, we cannot reveal this information, ' Vinh said.

The head of the research team also said that successful testing of safety solutions is normal and not unexpected.

'We have researched and prepared the conditions for many years. The last safety test step is also a procedural step when CASA requests. It is not a new technical test. Therefore, successful test results of safety solutions are not out of our expectation , 'said Dr. Pham Gia Vinh.

Mr. Vinh affirmed that a manned flying device would bring people into the air in May at a location in Australia. However, May is a period of transition in Australia so the weather has many changes. Therefore, the research team will base on the weather situation to have a suitable flight schedule.

Earlier, in May 2017, Master Pham Gia Vinh said that Australian authorities had granted permission for Dong Giang company 'spacecraft' to fly in the attached stratosphere.

This event marked a new development in the testing of flying instruments made by Dong Giang company of Pham Gia Vinh and Vietnamese engineers.

Licensing for unmanned aerial vehicles in phase 2 in a developed country like Australia is not easy.

Master Pham Gia Vinh said that for his unmanned equipment to be tested in Australia, it is necessary to meet the most stringent conditions according to the world's leading standards.

Earlier, at 4:00 am on May 16, 2016, from the town of Alice Spring (Ausralia), the 'spacecraft' built by a group of Vietnamese engineers was launched into space and successfully flew at the ceiling of 25 km.

The "spaceship" with the full name is the stratospheric flying device. According to master Pham Gia Vinh - Vietnam's first head of design, manufacturing, "spacecraft" has been launched into the cosmological environment and operates stably at a height of 25km and simulated a telecommunications satellites.

Mr. Vinh added that the "spacecraft" - referred to in the scientific term is the stratospheric flying device which was previously tested in a radius of 200 km with a minimum flight ceiling of 28 km, a flight time of 5 hours.

Pham Gia Vinh (computer controller) and Indian scientists during the flight test in India.

On May 13, 2015, "spacecraft" by Pham Gia Vinh as the chief architect, I successfully brought the mouse into space at a height of 29.5km during a flight test in Hyderabad city (India).

After nearly 2 hours flying at the height of the space, the spacecraft carrying 3 mice returned to Earth safely in the endless joy of the research and manufacturing team. The stratospheric flying tool project is linked to Singapore's InGenius group.

Chanel News Asia quoted Mr. Lim Seng, founder and managing director of InGenius Group, saying that 3 mice are still safe after the trip through the Armstrong limit (altitude at extreme air pressure low) using the stratospheric air balloon business.

Previously, on April 6, 2015, Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Quan and Vietnam's leading experts on aviation science had an open meeting with Pham Gia Vinh and a group of Vietnamese engineers who worked on it. space boat '.

After listening to Pham Gia Vinh's presentation, Minister Nguyen Quan said that there will be more work to do to bring this product into practice but the Ministry of Science and Technology is ready to provide maximum support to develop this project. .

Minister Quan suggested that Vinh's equipment could be tested to study the path and intensity of storms in the rainy season in Vietnam.

In August 2015, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam had the opinion to allow the flight of the stratospheric flying tool of Dong Giang Vietnam Research and Development Joint Stock Company managed and managed by Pham Gia Vinh.

The Deputy Prime Minister asked the Ministry of Defense to consider and grant a test flight license to perform the above stratospheric flight instrument according to current regulations.

However, for some reason, after 2 years, the Vietnamese authorities have not yet granted permission for the stratospheric flying tool of Dong Giang Vietnam Research and Development Joint Stock Company to have a chance to experiment at Vietnam.

This makes many scientists also expressed concern that this 'spaceship' has been successfully licensed and tested in many countries around the world when meeting the most rigorous standards.

These worries about 'brain drain' are based when many scientists think that they are having difficulties in their own countries.

On this occasion, many people immediately think of the straightforward statements of the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Ministers and the Ministers in the Prime Minister's Meeting with enterprises in 2017 held on May 17.

At the conference with the theme 'Accompanying with enterprises' , the Prime Minister continued to affirm the determination to build a government to create, integrity, act, serve and support enterprises to really be a driving force. development of the country.

Breakthrough in space technology

So far, Vietnam has never had a civilian air instrument that can reach a flying ceiling of 30km. The 'spacecraft' of Pham Gia Vinh group has gone far beyond the range of civilian aircraft, on par with a few developed countries owning air-flying technology with flying ceilings over 30 km like the US , France, Japan, Spain, India .

Pham Gia Vinh said he will soon test in Vietnam with experiments for scientific research.

The leading experts in Vietnam affirmed that the space shuttle 'spacecraft' of Pham Gia Vinh and the group of Vietnamese aeronautical engineers possesses outstanding features, a door that opens a great opportunity in public research. technology

With a high ceiling of 30-50km, the device allows the implementation of medical and environmental experiments, studying the high atmosphere of the earth, sending data and multi-spectral images directly to the scene. can learn about the water source, the greening of the soil, and observe the pathogen of the plant.

At the same time, this device will help scientists easily observe, study the formation and path of storms at this altitude. The advantage of the device is that it can transfer data faster than satellites by sending images collected directly to the earth directly.

In the field of information security, when a satellite fails, it can use a flying device such as a receiving and broadcasting station for a week to repair. Besides, it can be used as radar systems for defense and scientific research.