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India launches Oceansat 2, six foreign nano satellites
Vijay Karthik
Sriharikota (AP), Sept 23 (PTI) India Wednesday succesfully
put into orbit Oceansat-2 and six nano European satellites in
20 minutes in the 15th consecutive flawless launch for
homegrown rocket PSLV putting behind the premature end of its
maiden unmanned moon mission.
The textbook launch has also given further fillip to the
launch capabilities of India which has emerged as a major
player in the multi-billion dollar space market.
The Indian Space Research Organisation's PSLV-C14 put its
960 kg Ocean Monitoring Satellite(Oceansat-2)--the country's
16th remote sensing satelitte--into intended orbit of about
720 kms above the earth 1,200 seconds after it majestically
blasted off into azure sky from the coastal Satish Dhawan
Space Centre here in Andhra Pradesh,about 100 km from Chennai.
In tandem, the the 44.4 metre tall four-stage Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO)'s workhorse PSLV, in its 16th
flight, also hurled into space a set of six foreign nano
satellites that rode piggyback on Oceansat-2.
"We had an excellent launch, a precise launch... it has
once again proved our capability. It is an example of fine
teamwork and the maturity of PSLV launch vehicle has been
proved," a beaming ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair announced to
cheering space scientists after the launch watched by
Vice-President of India Hamid Ansari.
Oceansat-2 will identify potential fishing zones, sea
state forecasting and coastal zone studies, besides providing
inputs on weather forecasting and climate studies.
The succesful launch has come as a morale booster to ISRO
after the agency suffered a setback last month from the
abrupt termination of Chandrayaan-I mission. Nair, however,
has maintained that the moon mission had completed 95 per cent
of its objective. (MORE) PTI VIJ
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Sriharikota (AP), Sept 23 (PTI) India Wednesday succesfully
put into orbit Oceansat-2 and six nano European satellites in
20 minutes in the 15th consecutive flawless launch for
homegrown rocket PSLV putting behind the premature end of its
maiden unmanned moon mission.
The textbook launch has also given further fillip to the
launch capabilities of India which has emerged as a major
player in the multi-billion dollar space market.
The Indian Space Research Organisation's PSLV-C14 put its
960 kg Ocean Monitoring Satellite(Oceansat-2)--the country's
16th remote sensing satelitte--into intended orbit of about
720 kms above the earth 1,200 seconds after it majestically
blasted off into azure sky from the coastal Satish Dhawan
Space Centre here in Andhra Pradesh,about 100 km from Chennai.
In tandem, the the 44.4 metre tall four-stage Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO)'s workhorse PSLV, in its 16th
flight, also hurled into space a set of six foreign nano
satellites that rode piggyback on Oceansat-2.
"We had an excellent launch, a precise launch... it has
once again proved our capability. It is an example of fine
teamwork and the maturity of PSLV launch vehicle has been
proved," a beaming ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair announced to
cheering space scientists after the launch watched by
Vice-President of India Hamid Ansari.
Oceansat-2 will identify potential fishing zones, sea
state forecasting and coastal zone studies, besides providing
inputs on weather forecasting and climate studies.
The succesful launch has come as a morale booster to ISRO
after the agency suffered a setback last month from the
abrupt termination of Chandrayaan-I mission. Nair, however,
has maintained that the moon mission had completed 95 per cent
of its objective. (MORE) PTI VIJ
SDE
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