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India successfully launches PSLV-C7 from SHAR
Sriharikota, Jan 10: PSLV-C7, the tenth flight of the PolarSatellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), lifteed off from the Satish DhawanSpace Centre here at 0923 hrs, today.
The
44.4
metre
tall,
four-stage
295
tonne
launch
vehicle
of
theISRO,
carried
four
payloads,
including
the
first
of
its
kind
550
KGSpace
Capsule
Recovery
Experiment
(SRE),
a
new
mission
to
test
re-entrytechnology
and
a
forerunner
to
developing
reusable
vehicles
like
SpaceShuttle.
The main payload was the 680 kg advanced Indian Remote SensingSatellite CARTOSAT-2. Indonesia's 56 kg earth observation satelliteLAPAN-TUBSAT and Argentina's six kg nanosatellite PEHUENSAT-1 were theother payloads.
This was for the first time that India launched multiple payloads inone mission. It was an awesome sight as the giant 44.4 metre tall295-tonne four stage vehicle, roared into the skies, belching orangeflames and leaving behind a trail of smoke and a rumble that shook theearth.
A galaxy of scientists, led by ISRO Chief G Madhavan Nair, Projectdirectors of CARTOSAT-2 and SRE-1, were watching the course of theflight from the Mission Control Centre.
UNI
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