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India brings back orbiting satellite to earth for first time

 
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:04 pm    Post subject: India brings back orbiting satellite to earth for first time Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thats Fantastic.Was Awaiting news on the ReEntry.Thats a great Achievement.
Congrats to all Involved. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

THREE CHEERS ONCE AGAIN.
Pity there was no live telecast of the event.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No regrets on the Live feed as long as the mission was a success.
Fantastic Achievement No doubt.
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