Isro launches Italy satellite
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[24 Apr, 2007 l 0122 hrs ISTlTIMES NEWS NETWORK]
SRIHARIKOTA: India blasted into a new space orbit on Monday by launching its first commercial venture and placing a 352-kg Italian satellite, AGILE, that rode atop a PSLV rocket, marking the 11th successful lift-off of the indigenous polar launch vehicles.
“It has proven the reliability of our launching system. We have 100% succeeded. We have made good entry into the launching business and hope to get more business,” said Isro chairman G Madhavan Nair.
The launch put India into the billion-dollar lucrative market of satellite launches so far shared only between four others — US, Russia, Ukraine and European Space Agency. Isro has launched other foreign satellites but not for profit. Experts said many nations were looking to India to launch their satellites because the costs here are 30-35% cheaper. The PSLV-C8 also carried an Indian payload, an Advanced Avionics Module intended to test avionics systems like mission computers and navigation.
The speciality in this launch is that the extra boosters which are usually attached with the launch was not included for the first time and it was resounding success.
By: globaltracker - 6th May 2007 at 04:15
global no one in their “right mind” thinks they are incapable peoples 😉 trust me on that.
This is a aviation forum, so mergings space news with wmd news would suit better. There is no need to discuss things where our inputs would’nt matter too much 😉
best because of I have to browse less as well :diablo:
and yeh cut the number of forums your visiting (pun 😉 ), i can already see a ill effect.. :p
Mods please merge em! what you say globe ok?
go for it.
By: joey - 5th May 2007 at 04:55
global no one in their “right mind” thinks they are incapable peoples 😉 trust me on that.
This is a aviation forum, so mergings space news with wmd news would suit better. There is no need to discuss things where our inputs would’nt matter too much 😉
best because of I have to browse less as well :diablo:
and yeh cut the number of forums your visiting (pun 😉 ), i can already see a ill effect.. :p
Mods please merge em! what you say globe ok?
By: globaltracker - 5th May 2007 at 03:58
Request to moderators , PLEASE merge this thread with WMD/Missile.
Globetracker your new here, This is a Aviation forum, We have a very very tiny space programme compared to many nations, villyfying it this way in a Aviation forum looks like We are desperate in ardevertising things, Please understand it, it looks bad.
Its ok.
I just made this thread for the following reasons:-
Compared to the number of nations in the space industry we are not that small as you are saying. We started little late and socialistic nature of the government crippled a little. But you see i have seen bashing on DRDO, HAL, ADA and other Indian establishments and thought we are not that and capable of more what they people think of us. That was the only intention i wanted to make a separate thread.
cheers
By: joey - 4th May 2007 at 10:24
Request to moderators , PLEASE merge this thread with WMD/Missile.
Globetracker your new here, This is a Aviation forum, We have a very very tiny space programme compared to many nations, villyfying it this way in a Aviation forum looks like We are desperate in ardevertising things, Please understand it, it looks bad.
By: globaltracker - 4th May 2007 at 09:39
Maiden launch of GSLV Mark-III in 2009: ISRO
Maiden launch of GSLV Mark-III in 2009: ISRO
Ahmedabad, May 4 (PTI): India’s ambition to grab a slice of the billion-dollar global satellite launch market will get a major boost when ISRO makes the maiden launch of its new Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark-III in 2009.
“The development of GSLV Mark-III is progressing well and we hope to have its maiden launch in 2009,” said Madhavan Nair, Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), on Thursday.
The GSLV Mark-III is an entirely new three-stage launch vehicle and is not derived from PSLV or GSLV Mark-I or II series.
With the development of GSLV Mark-III, India will be able to launch heavy satellites into the geosynchronous transfer orbit. This vehicle is billed as the technological successor to GSLV Mark-II.
Nair, who was at Space Applications Centre here to attend a “National Telemedicine Users’ Meet”, told the media that ISRO had identified the problems that had caused the failure of GSLV Mark-II launch last year.
“Last year we had a failure. But we have identified the reasons for it.”
“There is nothing wrong with the design or any of the other sub-systems. It was only a fabrication error which caused the failure,” he said of the three-stage 414 tonne launch vehicle which had lifted off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in July 2006 only to plunge into the Bay of Bengal with a 2,168-kg INSAT-4C satellite.
Nair said ISRO had rectified the snag and the space agency will be re-launching the GSLV Mark-II by October this year.
“We hope that we will be able to make a launch sometime in September or October this year,” Nair said.
“Till date we have had four launches of GSLV of which only one has failed.”
The first two flights of GSLV were developmental, while the third was an EDUSAT communication satellite launch in September 2004.
Nair said satellite launch vehicles like the PSLVs and the GSLVs will also be used for commercial launches by ISRO.
“We are trying to sell it to the extent possible.”
“The GSLV Mark-II is a very good vehicle for launching small satellites,” he said, adding the vehicle could carry 2,500-kgs of payload into the geosynchronous transfer orbit.
Earlier, speaking at the inaugural function of the “National Telemedicine Users’ Meet”, Nair said the year 2007 had begun well for ISRO in terms of space launches.
He hailed the ISRO’s space-recovery experiment conducted in January this year as the best achievement for the space agency.
“The space capsule was in space for 12 days, conducted experiments and had later successfully re-entered the earth’s atmosphere,” Nair said.
“It is the best achievement anybody can dream of.”
By: globaltracker - 24th April 2007 at 17:46
Is there a need of a new thread? I’m sure it could have gone well in the wmd/missiles section? :confused:
I made this thread because there was no mention of any space programs in that thread, so i had to specifically name thread for this topic.
By: joey - 24th April 2007 at 14:44
Is there a need of a new thread? I’m sure it could have gone well in the wmd/missiles section? :confused:
By: krishnan - 24th April 2007 at 07:49
Take off the ‘&’. Its Indian Space Research Org
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