Hyderabad, January 24, 2006 (UNI)

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G Madhavan Nair today said the ISRO was planning to attach hypersonic engines to rockets to reduce the cost of payload.

Delivering the presidential address at a one-day seminar on 'technological challenges in hypersonic systems and reusable launch vehicles' organised by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) here, he said the scientists should innovate new technology that would help reduce the cost of payloads in rockets.

Stating that there was also need to reduce chemical propellants, which cost 15,000 US dollars to test rockets, he said the expense should be reduced to 1000 US dollars in future.

Observing that scientists were taking challenging steps to innovate new techonology in the country, Mr Nair said man would go to every planet and conduct research there in next 100 years.

He said ISRO and DRDO would work together to develop new technology in the field of space in the future.