Tomorrow i.e., on 30th
June 2014 – around 9.52 am – look towards the sky and the Nation should be
feeling the pride….
In his first trip to
the south after he assumed office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here
today (29th June 14) on a
special aircraft enroute to Sriharikota to witness the launch of ISRO's PSLV
C-23 rocket. It rained here somewhat heavily for few minutes and reportedly the
Prime Minister's special aircraft landed after a delay of 40 minutes following
bad weather, after which Sri Narndra Modiji was welcomed by Tamil Nadu and Karnataka
Governor K Rosaiah and Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in the VIP lounge, airport
sources said.
Later, Shri Modi left
for the spaceport of Sriharikota, about 100 kilometres from here, where he is
set to witness the launch of ISRO's PSLV C23 carrying five foreign satellites
tomorrow. PSLV C23 is scheduled to lift off at 9.52 am tomorrow with 714 kg
weighing French Earth Observation Satellite SPOT-7, 14 kg AISAT of Germany,
NLS7.1 (CAN-X4) & NLS7.2 (CAN-X5) of Canada each weighing 15 kg and the 7
kg VELOX-1 of Singapore.
The Polar Satellite
Launch Vehicle, (PSLV) is the first
operational launch vehicle of ISRO. PSLV is capable of launching 1600 kg
satellites in 620 km sun-synchronous polar orbit and 1050 kg satellite in geo-synchronous
transfer orbit.
In the standard configuration, it measures 44.4 m tall, with a
lift off weight of 295 tonnes. PSLV has four stages using solid and liquid
propulsion systems alternately. The
reliability rate of PSLV has been superb. There had been 25 continuously
successful flights of PSLV, till April 2014 .
With its variant configurations,
PSLV has proved its multi-payload, multi-mission capability in a single launch
and its geosynchronous launch capability. In the Chandrayaan-mission, another
variant of PSLV with an extended version of strap-on motors,
Nation waits for successful launch of PSLV C-23
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar.
29th June
2014.
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