HISTORIC MILESTONE: ISRO SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES ITS 100TH ROCKET, STRENGTHENING INDIA’S SPACE PROWESS
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Shreya Naskar- 0
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A very big day for ISRO and all the people of India. ISRO has launched its 100th rocket, navigation satellite named the NVS-02 from the launch vehicle, GSLV-F15 is a metallic version with a diameter of 3.4 meters. On Wednesday from Srihari Kota, Andhra Pradesh, India.
The ISRO posted “A view like no other”. This is the 1st rocket launched by ISRO in 2025. Launch vehicle – GSLV-F15 would navigate NVS-02 into the intended required orbit (GTO). This is the first rocket launched by the ISRO since the appointment of the new chairman of ISRO, V Narayan. ISRO established on 15th August, 1969 by the government of India.
Aryabhata was India’s first satellite manufactured by Indian Space Research Organization on 19th April, 1975 from Kapustin Yar, a soviet rocket launch and development site in Astrakhan Oblast using the Kosmos-3M launch vehicle. It was a joint operation by the Indian space organization ISRO and the Soviet Union.
ISRO has come a long way since its establishment. Summing around ISRO has come across 130 space craft missions, 18 satellites released by private players or students, 433 foreign satellites launched by ISRO, 100launch missions, 9 re-entry missions and poems, 2 missions facilitated by ISRO and 1 Gagan Yaan.
ISRO has launched a number of programs in 2024 and are expected to do the same this year,2025.
Before the rocket launch, S Unnikrishnan Nair, the director of India’s main rocket lab at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre said, “It is as robust as previous one. Like any other launch. We make every launch robust to the best of our ability. It will be successful.”
According to ISRO, the GSLV F-15 is the 17th flight of GSLV. Once named as the ‘naughty boy’, the rocket was the one to give ISRO the worst time and menagerie in the past.
