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Andhra Pradesh
K. Mrityunjaya Ram
Mission accomplished: ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair in a jubilant mood after the successful launch of GSLV-F04 from Sriharikota on Sunday.
SRIHARIKOTA: It seemed as though history had repeated itself in the Indian space programme as any avid follower could see a striking similarity between the sequence of events that occurred on July 18, 1980, and on September 2, 2007. For the entire space community, July 18, 1980, was a memorable day as space scientists put the 40-kg Rohini satellite in a low earth RS-1 orbit through India’s first experimental Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-3), which took off and put the satellite in orbit within a few minutes from the SHAR centre (renamed Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR in 2002), Sriharikota. It was considered a great accomplishment of Indian space scientists after an unsuccessful earlier mission on August 10, 1979, involving SLV-3 E1. Now September 2, 2007, too is a memorable day for the entire Indian space community as the space scientists put a 2,130-kg INSAT – 4CR satellite from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota, into the Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit through a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle GSLV – F04, which took off at 6.20 p.m and within 17 minutes was in orbit and about 5,000 km away from Sriharikota. And it was indeed a great accomplishment for space scientists, especially after the failure of the GSLV mission on July 10, 2006,- GSLV-F02. On both the occasions, 1980 and 2007, space scientists demonstrated the operational reliability of launch vehicles as well as reiterated the end-to-end capability of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in not only building the state-of-the-art satellites, but also in launching them using robust launch vehicles. Besides, they reminded one of the oft-quoted adage “Failure is the stepping stone to success and good judgment comes from experience and often experience comes from bad judgement.” Moreover, it was a remarkable comeback for ISRO after the failures and significantly space scientists triumphantly injected satellites into the orbits within one year after the failures on both the occasions.
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