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Aiel
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 Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject: India brings back orbiting satellite to earth for first time |
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India brings back orbiting satellite to earth for first time
India today successfully brought back a spacecraft to earth.A 550-kg recoverable space capsule that was launched by a home-built rocket on January 10 returned to earth's atmosphere, splashing down in the Bay of Bengal, about 140 km east of Sriharikota coast at 9.46 am, as planned, Indian Space Research Organisation officials said.
As it re-entered the earth's atmosphere, after initial aerodynamic braking, a parachute system reduced the touch down velocity, and a floatation system kept the capsule, named Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1), afloat.
A Coast Guard helicopter located the spot, and a team drawn from Coast Guard and Navy was soon at the job of retrieving the spacecraft, which they did, and uploaded to a ship "Sarang" to be taken to the spaceport of Sriharikota via Ennore Port.
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200701221616.htm
The highly technical ISRO press release is here.
http://isro.org/pressrelease/Jan22_2007.htm
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Just saw it on the news. Looks like we're developing ourselves inspite of the limitations we have in terms of funds.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:25 am Post subject: |
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Thats Fantastic.Was Awaiting news on the ReEntry.Thats a great Achievement.
Congrats to all Involved.
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karatecatman
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:24 am Post subject: |
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THREE CHEERS ONCE AGAIN.
Pity there was no live telecast of the event. |
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HAWK21M
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No regrets on the Live feed as long as the mission was a success.
Fantastic Achievement No doubt.
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