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GSLV-D2 launch likely in mid-May

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE APRIL 28. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) officials will meet here this weekend to finalise the launch date of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D2). The event is tentatively scheduled for May second week.

The ISRO chairman, K.Kasturirangan, told presspersons that preparations were on and that all directors would meet over the weekend. He said this after inaugurating an Earthquake Engineering and Vibration Research Centre at the Central Power Research Institute here. The GSLV-D2 will carry the second technology experiment satellite GSAT-2, and will be launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at the Sriharikota spaceport. The GSLV was launched on April 18, 2001.

The GSAT-2 will carry four C-band, two Ku-band India beam transponders and a Mobile Satellite Service payload. It will also carry instruments such as total radiation dose monitor, surface charge potential monitor and solar x-ray spectrometer.

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