, After a successful lift off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, the PSLV-C7, successfully completed its multiple mission flight by placing all its four payloads in the intended orbit.
In its tenth flight, the PSLV-C7, the reliable workhorse of the ISRO, placed the 680 kg CARTOSAT-2, 550 kg Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1), 56 kg-Indonesian LAPAN-TUBSAT satellite and the six kg Argentinean-PEHUENSAT-1 satellite in the intended orbit.
It was an awesome sight as the 44.4 metre-tall humongous four-stage vehicle, sporting the Indian tricolour logo at the cone-shaped tip, roared into the skies, spitting orange flames and leaving a trail of smoke and a rumble that shook the earth.
After the text-book precision lift off, the flight was flawless as it first injected the Cartosat-2 into the 635 km high Polar Sunsynchronous Orbit, 981 seconds after the PSLV-C7 blasted off from the First Launch Pad at 0923 hrs, amid cheers from the scientists at the Mission Control Centre (MCC).
Forty seconds later, Pehuensat-I was placed in the orbit, followed by SRE-1 and Lapan-Tubsat in different directions, much to the delight of ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair and the scientists.
The entire mission- right from the blast off to the injection of all the four payloads in their intended orbit- took 1171 seconds, approximately 20 minutes, triggering jubilation among the Scientists at the MCC.
With the launch of SRE-1, Indian space science crossed yet another major milestone and the country joined the elite group of Nations as SRE-1 is a technological forerunner to Indian scientists mastering the re-entry technology and building re-usable launch vehicles like 'Discovery,' especially in the context of next year's first moon mission Chandrayaan-1.
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