New Delhi: GSLV Mark-III had been successfully launched in its test fire on Thursday. India had been moved forward in rocket technology as it had today launched its heaviest next generation rocket and crew module.
Precisely at 9.30 a.m., the 630-tonne Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV Mark-III), standing 43.43-metre tall, freed itself from the second launch pad and with a reverberating deep throated roar, rose into the sky.
The Rs.155-crore mission has twin purposes.
The main purpose is to test the rocket’s atmospheric flight stability with around four tonne luggage.
The second and incidental objective is to study the re-entry characteristics of the crew module — called Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment — its aero braking and validation of its end-to-end parachute system.
Official of Indian Space Research Organisation (#ISRO), it will be of the size of a small bedroom and can accommodate two to three people.
The rocket spat out the giant cup cake shaped 3.7-tonne crew module at an altitude of 126 km just over five minutes into the flight.
The crew module then descended towards Earth at a high speed. The speed was moderated remotely manipulating its onboard motors till 80 km above the earth.
ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishan said, “India started development of the rocket a decade ago and today completed the first experimental flight.”
He also discussed about the performance of GSLV Mark-III and said, “The performance of the solid and the liquid engines were as expected.”
“The unmanned crew module splashed in Bay of Bengal as expected.”
Project Director of GSLV Mark-III S. Somanath said, “India now has a new launch vehicle. The payload capability of the Indian rocket has been enhanced significantly.”
This was the second mission of GSLV rocket during the last four years after two such rockets failed in 2010.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the successful test fire of GSLV Mark-III congratulates ISRO and tweeted, “Successful launch of GSLV Mk-III is yet another triumph of brilliance & hardwork of our scientists. Congrats to them for the efforts.”
Bureau Report
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