ISRO - Indian Space Research Organisation

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Today all Indians are proud of our nation. The land of snake charmers, the land of deprived & backward people, has accomplished, which to date no other country have done, and its credit goes to, India's most successful agency Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

February 15, 2017, the Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh has launched 104 satellites on a single rocket into space and have set a new record. Not only launched, but deployed them into their orbit with utmost precision. This deployment is done only in meagre 6 seconds per satellite approximately. India become the first country to do so successfully in the single mission to carry so many satellites. Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C37) for the country's space program has been designated as an incredible step.

It was a promising beginning at 9:28 am when ISRO ‘s indigenous rocket, with a growl launched and break free from the Earth's gravitational pull and reached a stable orbit. The countdown had started 28 hours ago.

Let us educate ourselves with some of the feat and facts about this launch, which made it historic -

1.       Out of 104 satellites, 101 were foreign satellite. India's has only 3 Satellite Launched.

2.       ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) used for launch.

3.       The main satellite wait was 714 kg and 103 Nano satellite, all have a total weight of 664 kilograms.

4.       Foreign satellites are mainly small satellite of countries Israel, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates and the USA. 96 of these satellites are of USA.

5.       With this historic launch ISRO broke the record of Russia which launched 37 satellites in a single launch in 2014.

6.       India had set a national record last June by launching 20 satellites successfully of which 13, was of USA.

7.       Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi, said for the launch in 2014, we have launched 4 overseas satellites in Earth orbit successfully which the cost less than a successful Hollywood film “Gravity”

8.       Such foreign satellites in trajectory is a very worthy approach for India to earn money and reputation.

9.       ISRO had sent unmanned rocket to Mars, which cost around $73 million. NASA's Mars Orbiter Mission, which was of 671 million dollars.

10.    Around the year 2022, ISRO is planning to send the second Mars Orbiter Mission and preparing to send a robot. Additionally, it is preparing to send a mission to Venus and Jupiter.

11.     The Indian government is so happy from this achievement that it raised ISRO budget by 23 percent.

12.    This launch deployed, 104 satellites which took about 18 minutes. A total of 27,000 kilometers per hour speed was achieved by rocket, which is 40 times the speed of an air plane.

13.    The rocket used to launch PSLV, weighs 320 tons in total. The total height of the rocket was 44.44 meters.

14.    The major satellite weighs 714kg which will be used majorly for mapping of the Earth.

15.    Cluster of Nano Satellites called as ‘Doves’ are 90 in numbers are of single San Francisco based company called Planet Inc.

16.    ISRO two small satellite's total weight 1.378 kg will be installed 520 kilometers from earth.

17.    Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi congratulated the scientists and said that it is a very unprecedented achievement and that India is very proud.

18.    In the year 2015 in June through a single rocket, ISRO launched 23 satellites.

Some basic Information of ISRO

Indian Space Research Organization, the Government of the Republic of India, the space agency.

HQ: Bangalore, India

Founder: Vikram Sarabhai

Founded: August 15, 1969

Budget: 75.09 billion rupees (1.1 billion US $, 2016-2017)

Motto: space technology at the service of mankind

Director: A. S KK

 Reference - Wikipedia

हिन्दी में पढ़ें - इसरो - भारतीय अंतरिक्ष अनुसंधान संगठन