U Sudhakar Reddy
Indian Space Research Organization’s naughty boy GSLV took off
majestically leaving the launch pad with clouds of smoke and obeyed the flight profile
and blasted off to create history. The GSLV D5 with super cool indigenously developed
Cryo engine delivered satellite GSAT-14 into geostationary transfer orbit with remarkable
precision.
After several failures in its attempt to develop cryogenic rocket technology, the ISRO on
Sunday finally launched the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle with an indigenous
cryogenic engine. With this Indian entered into high profile ‘Cryo club’.
Mr. K Sivan Mission Director of GSLV said ,”We used to call GSLV as naughty boy of ISRO.
The naughty boy has become obedient today. He has meticulously done the job of injecting
the satellite precisely. We could achieve all our targets as GSLV inject two tone plus
satellite into the orbit. For the past one decade we are waiting for this type of
performance from India side. The 1000 seconds of GSLV flight is fruit of 1000 days of
hard and dedicated work of ISRO teams,”
GSLV-D5 is the eighth flight of GSLV launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR in
Sriharikota. GSAT-14 is the 23rd geostationary communication satellite built by ISRO
which augments in-orbit capacity of extended C and Ku-band transponders.
GSLV-D3 luanched failed in April 15 2010 from SHAR. ISRO revisited the entire design of
the GSLV apart from the indigenous cryogenic engine. On August 19 2013 ISRO aborted
another attempt minutes before the launch after liquid fuel leaked from the second stage
of the launch vehicle. ISRO then replaced the second stage fully and made several other
changes.
Mr. S Ramakirshnan director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre said,”The first attempt of
GSLV D 3 we almost made it but the starting process could not proceed beyond ignition. It
was definitely a big challenge to understand what really went wrong. We had the benefit
of the knowledge of all ISRO teams and everyone put heads together. We not only analysed
the failure and working on what should be done to make sure next attempt a success Every
person rose to the occasion putting their heart and should and the result is what we saw
today,” He added ,”what happened few months back in August we went launched pad and for
some other reasons we have to called off the launch. But in very short time stupendous
efforts were made by the team,”
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