At 9.23am, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) roared to life and took off from the spaceport here to place 10 satellites into their orbits some 600 km above earth, rocketing India into space history.
India became the second country in the world to achieve the difficult feat, after Russia which had put into orbit 13 satellites in April 2007. But Isro officials pointed out that the total weight of Russia’s 13 was only 295 kg as against the 820 kg carried up by the four-stage PSLV on Monday. They added that Nasa’s attempt to do something similar had come to nought
Of the 10 satellites, two are from India — the 695-kg Cartosat-2a and the 87-kg Indian Mini Satellite-1 (IMS-1) — while the remaining eight are nano satellites from Canada, Japan, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.
After the launch, the scientists conformed the launch of India’s ambitious Moon-mission Chandrayaan-I in the third quarter of this year. It will launch a 500 kg satellite that will orbit Earth’s only natural satellite for two years for terrain mapping and lunar surface mapping.
Watch the video of launch here
Source: TimesOfIndia, Nighi Videos
Thats great achievement. Would love to see mini-satellites from indian universities.
Bingo..! India is setting a new way to go, zooooming through the air cielings into an era of major Indian contributions to the most respected field of SCIENCE.
And yet…… there are so many smaller things that need to be fixed but ignored because in the end everyone is striving for “world glory”. This only shows we as Indians pride ourselves to show-off to everyone else yet living a life of misery as a whole……
Hail India.Yet to go.