ISRO notches another success with PSLV-C26
20 years after first mission, the space agency recorded its 27th successful flight.
On October 15, 1994, India’s Polar Satellite Launch
Vehicle (PSLV-D2) for the first time successfully placed an Indian
Remote-sensing Satellite into orbit.
Twenty years
later, on October 16, 2014, the PSLV-C26 lobbed the 1,425 kg Indian
Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS-1C) satellite into its
precise orbit.
Thursday’s mission was ISRO’s
twenty-seventh consecutively successful PSLV flight. ISRO Chairman K.
Radhakrishnan said, “The PSLV has done it again. IRNNSS-1C is up in
orbit. ”
After a flight of 20 minutes and 18
seconds, the satellite was injected into an elliptical orbit. The
IRNSS-1C is the third among seven navigation satellites, with a wide
range of applications from helping truck drivers to submarines, missiles
and battle tanks locate their positions.
Curtsey with: THE HINDU
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