> GSLV Launched with success

Safin

A crowning achievement for India

(and sadly people don't give much importance to it

)

The launch of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-FO4 (GSLV) rocket carrying communication satellite INSAT-4CR blasted off from Sriharikota, south India, at 6: 20 p.m. local time Sunday.

The launch of the GSLV carrying INSAT-4CR was scheduled to liftoff at 4:21 p.m. local time. However, it had earlier been stopped several seconds before the blast off due to a "technical snag in parameters related to the launch," India media quoted sources in the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) as saying.

The rocket was on its designated path, and the performance was reported as normal, the ISRO said, adding that all parameters were functioning well.

The GSLV was to put into orbit INSAT-4CR, which carries 12 high-power Ku-band transponders for direct-to-home television services, video picture transmission and digital satellite newsgathering.

The Vice President of India, Shri Mohammad Hamid Asari has congratulated the space scientists and technologists involved in the successful launch from Sriharikota of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, GSLV-F04 that has lifted the high-powered INSAT-4CR communication satellite into space.

ISRO's Page on GSLV

THE GSLV or Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle is a complete indigenous development of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and puts India into an ultra elite clique of nation that has the technology to put geostationary orbit satellites.

Private Ryan

Up....up...n away!!!...

Ninja

great news..Well hope the chandrayaan project would also be a success

chic_magnet

a new era for DTH has dawned upon our lands... behold my fellow Indians, we march towards greatness (read:sloth couch potatoes

) lolzz.. kidding kidding.

Wraith

too good!!!

Well done ISRO!!

Sandeep

From Hindu:

Thiruvananthapuram, Sept. 3 (PTI): A day after the successful launch of the GSLV-F04 from Sriharikota, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) Director B N Suresh said ISRO's immediate plan was the launch of two more PSLV flights this year and a GSLV launch early next year.

Speaking to reporters at the airport here today after arriving from Sriharikota, he said the communication satellite INSAT-4CR put in its pre-determined orbit by GSLV, was in "good health."

"Further operations of the satellite are being done from ISRO's centre at Hassan. Our people have already gone there," he said.

The success of this launch, particularly after the failure of the previous GSLV flight four months back, demonstrated the robustness of the vehicle and resilience of ISRO as a team, "I think we have done a good job within a short span of time," he said.

Suresh said that the Indian Space Research Institute would be inaugurated at the VSSC campus on September 14 by ISRO Chairman, G Madhavan Nair. "We have set up a alternative campus and are going to run the Institute through it," he said.

Admissions to the Institute had already been completed and students would join by September 12 and 13, he added.