ISRO launches India’s heaviest rocket, GSLV Mark III
18 Dec 2014 12:29 PM IST18 Dec 2014 12:29 PM IST
ISRO launches India’s heaviest rocket, GSLV Mark III
Taking steps towards realising India's ambition to send humans into space, ISRO on Thursday successfully tested the atmospheric re-entry of a crew module after its heaviest launch vehicle GSLV Mk-III blasted off from here. (Photo: DC)- "India started the development process a decade ago and just now we completed the first experimental flight of the GSLV Mark III vehicle christened as LVM Mark III," Radhakrishnan said from the Mission Control Centre. (Photo: AP)
- Soon after the successful test flight, a delighted ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan said, "This was a very significant day in the history of Indian space programme for the development of the advanced launch vehicle that could carry a 4-tonne class of
- The experiment also witnessed the largest parachute in action ever made in the country. The main parachute, which helped the crew module touch the waters at around 7 metre/second speed, was 31 metres in diameter. (Photo: AP)
- Exactly 5.4 minutes after lift off at 9.30 am from the Second Launch Pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre here, the module separated from the rocket at an altitude of 126 km and re-entered Earth's atmosphere (about 80 km from sea level). (Photo: AP/DC)
Taking steps towards realising India's ambition to send humans into space, ISRO on Thursday successfully tested the atmospheric re-entry of a crew module after its heaviest launch vehicle GSLV Mk-III blasted off from here. (Photo: DC)
ISRO launches India’s heaviest rocket, GSLV Mark III
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