Former Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy congratulates ISRO on achieving 100th launch feat
Tadepalli: Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy thanked the Indian Space Research Organization on Wednesday for successfully completing the GSLV-F15/NVS-02 mission, marking the 100th launch milestone.
Jagan praised ISRO’s superior space technology and expressed satisfaction in Andhra Pradesh’s location in Sriharikota, the entry point to India’s space missions.
He celebrated this milestone as evidence of India’s increasing leadership in space exploration and wished ISRO great success in all its future endeavors.
In Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, ISRO successfully launched its GSLV-F15 carrying the NVS-02 at 6:23 AM. This marks the 100th launch from the nation’s spaceport for ISRO.
The GSLV-F15 is the 11th flight of India’s indigenous cryo stage and the 17th flight of the country’s geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV). This is GSLV’s eighth flight using an in-house cryogenic stage. The metallic GSLV-F15 payload fairing has a diameter of 3.4 meters.
According to a statement from ISRO, the NVS-02 satellite would be launched into a geosynchronous transfer orbit by the GSLV-F15, which has an in-house cryogenic stage.
In addition to expressing thanks, ISRO Chairman V Narayanan noted that the 100th launch marks an important turning point in the Indian space program.
Speaking at the ceremony, Narayanan said, “I am very pleased to report from ISRO’s spaceport that this year’s maiden launch was completed successfully. The navigation satellite NVS-02 is accurately injected into orbit by the GSLV-F15 vehicle launch vehicle. This mission marks an important milestone for India since it is the 100th launch from our launch facilities.
“A generation of leaders carried on our space program, which was envisioned and initiated by visionary leader Vikram Sarabhai. We have created six generations of launch vehicles up to this point. In 1979, APJ Abdul Kalam served as project director and Satish Dhawan oversaw the development of the first launch vehicle. We have completed 100 launches since then, including today’s launch,” he said.
India’s autonomous regional navigation satellite system, Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC), was created to provide customers in India and an area that extends around 1500 km beyond the Indian landmass precise Position, Velocity, and Timing (PVT) services.
Standard Positioning Service (SPS) and Restricted Service (RS) are the two service categories that NavIC will provide. Over the service region, NavIC’s SPS offers location precision of over 20 meters and timing accuracy of over 40 nanoseconds.
