New Delhi:
The Indian Space Research Organization or ISRO celebrated on Wednesday its Mission 100 of rockets with the successful launch of a navigation satellite.
The early launch in the morning from Sriharikota de Andhra Pradesh, the first of the Indian Space Agency this year, saw the GSLV launch vehicle -F15 injecting precisely the NVS -02 navigation satellite in the required planned orbit (GTO).
The mission was also the first for the new president of the Space Agency, V Narayanan.
Hours later, the ISRO shared a footage aboard a minute duration of the GSLV-F15 during the launch of NVS-02.
🌍 One view like no other! Look at the images aboard GSLV-F15 during NVS-02 launch.
India’s space program continues to inspire! 🚀 #GSLV #Navic #Isro pic.twitter.com/krro3xih1s
– Isro (@isro) January 29, 2025
“A view like no other space program in India continues to inspire,” he published in X.
The launch of the Isro 100 rocket
The rocket – Geosíncrono F -15 (GSLV F -15) satellite vehicle was once called the ‘mischievous child’ of the ISRO, since it gave the Indian space agency the worst moment of its rocket collection.
Of the 16 launches so far, there have been six failures for this rocket, which is a large failure rate of 37 percent. In comparison, the last launch vehicle of India Mark -3, also known as the ‘Bahuballi’ rocket, has a 100 percent success rate.
It is also a rocket of the same family where India showed its innate ability to dominate the manufacture of cryogenic engines, a technology that the country took two decades to dominate after its technology transfer was denied to India, by Russia, under the pressure of the United States. .
GSLV-F15 is the seventeenth flight of the GSLV and the eleventh flight with the indigenous cryogenic stage.
It was GSLV’s eighth operating flight with an indigenous cryogenic stage and the 100th launch from Spaceport Sriharikota.
The GSLV-F15 payload fairing is a metal version with a diameter of 3.4 meters.
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