ISRO launches India’s 100th rocket successfully
Author :
mad madrasi
Blog :www.madmadrasi.net
Date: 9/9/2012 4:39:00 AM
Envisaged in a cow shed (apt, wouldn’t you say), the Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched its 100th rocket today, Sunday 09th Sep 2012. It was on 21 Nov 1963, a tiny rocket, made in USA was launched from the ISRO’s then launch station at Thumba in Kerala.
In 1975, we launched our first home-made satellite Aryabhatta from a Russian (Soviet) Cosmodrome. Today, even our IITs and colleges have enough technology and resources to build micro satellites on their own.
In 1981 we built our own Geostationary communication satellite and launched it on the French Ariane laucher - It was aptly called APPLE for Ariane Passenger PayLoad Experiment.
:-)
In its 22nd launch, the 230-tonne PSLV, as tall as a 15-storey building, on its 3rd fully-commercial launch, carried to space 720-kg SPOT-6 remote sensing satellite from France and a 15-kg Japanese spacecraft PROITERES, from SHAR, at Andhra Pradesh, ~110 km due North of Chennai.
Here are the snaps of the launch-
The launch vehicle on the launch pad-
A textbook launch -
(all image grabs from ISRO live webfeed)