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Countdown for `Bahubali' to fly with Chandrayaan-2 to begin on Sunday

  •   Sat, Jul 13 2019 11:08:56 AM

Chennai, Jul 13 (IANS): The countdown for the July 15 early morning lift-off of India's heavy rocket nicknamed the `Bahubali' carrying Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft is expected to begin on Sunday, said a top official of the Indian space agency.

"It will be a 20-hour countdown which is expected to start on July 14 at 6.51 a.m.," K. Sivan, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) told IANS.

He said everything was progressing smoothly.

The 640-tonne rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III) standing about 44 metre tall is nicknamed the `Bahubali', as like the hero in the successful film lifts a heavy Lingam, the rocket will carry the 3.8-tonne Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft.

About 16-minutes into its flight, the Rs 375 crore GSLV-Mk III rocket is expected to sling the Rs 603 crore Chandrayaan-2 into an Earth parking 170x40400 km orbit.

During the countdown, the rocket and spacecraft's systems will undergo checks and fuel will be filled to power the rocket engines.

To date, ISRO has sent up three GSLV-Mk III rockets. The first one was on 18.12.2014 carrying Crew Module Atmospheric Reentry Experiment. The second and third GSLV-Mk III went up on 5.2.2017 and 14.11.2018 carrying communication satellites GSAT-19 and GSAT-29 respectively.

Interestingly, GSLV-Mk III will be used for India's manned space mission slated in 2022.
  

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  • Sanjeev Kamath, Udupi / Seattle

    Sat, Jul 13 2019

    Nody encourages our brilliant scientists into this for the past 71 years. Else, by now, we would be growing potato on the moon and bringing back gold thereof.

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  • francis lobo, Mangalore

    Sat, Jul 13 2019

    What you are growing in US now- Potato. If people had not run to US and other countries, India would have progressed much now. US became independent in 9th Jul 1776 and imagine how many years it took them to achieve what they are today. What India achieved in 71 years is tremendous. Even Europeans countries do not have satellite launchpads, their won missiles, military equipment, they do not have their own satellite, forget about landing on Moon. If you think whatever was done is only in the past 5 years then your education which was before these 5 years does not have a value or your degree is not worth. Please enjoy your stay in US or come back and show that you can also do what our scientists have done and doing. Jai Hind

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  • Abdullah Amin, Pumpwell, Mangalore

    Sat, Jul 13 2019

    The US NRIs helped the greedy illegal immigrants to return to India.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sat, Jul 13 2019

    Abdul Kalam's Vision is now come True ...

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  • Shankar, Mangaluru

    Sat, Jul 13 2019

    Give credit to K Sivan who deserves!

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