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[http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/10+space+age+moments/1/22818.html ''India Today''], December 19, 2008
  
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Los Angeles: NASA’s next Mars rover will land at the foot of a towering mountain inside a 96-mile-wide crater to search for evidence that the region once had conditions capable of supporting microbial life, project officials announced.  
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Gale Crater was chosen as the target for the $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission after an extensive review of dozens of potential sites, officials said in webcast from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington.  
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''' 1. WE HAVE LIFT-OFF 1975 '''
  
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The rover, nicknamed Curiosity, is expected to be launched this year and to land on Mars in August 2012. It’s far bigger than the three rovers NASA has previously sent to the red planet in search of geologic evidence that the frigid, dusty planet was once warmer and wet, with conditions that could potentially have supported a hardy form of life.  
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The first Indian satellite Aryabhatta is launched by the Soviet Union from Kapustin Yar using a Kosmos—3M launch vehicle on April 19, 1975.
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Its aim is to provide an opportunity to conduct investigations in space sciences.  
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It carries three experiments, one each in X-ray astronomy, solar physics and aeronomy.
  
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The three-mile-high mountain in Gale Crater is layered and scientists believe it is the remnant of an extensive sequence of deposits. The site also has a huge cut like Grand Canyon that appears to have been made by flowing water.  
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Mission planners intend to send the instrument-laden Curiosity up the lower flanks of the mountain to examine the layers.  
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The Satellite Instructional Television Experiment begins on August 1, 1975, when 2,400 black and white community TV sets come alive in as many as villages in clusters across six states long before urban India experiences TV. NASA and ISRO join hands to design and implement this ambitious project.
  
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Past studies from orbiting spacecraft show the mineral signatures of clays and sulfate salts, which form in the presence of water, concentrated in older layers near the bottom of the mountain. AP
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''' 3. SENSING IT RIGHT 1979 '''
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ISRO launches Bhaskara-1, a 444-kg experimental remote-sensing satellite for earth observations on June 7, 1979, from another Soviet Kosmos. The mission conducts earth observation experiments for applications related to hydrology and geology.
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''' 4. STELLAR HONOUR 1979 '''
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Astronomer R.M.West discovers a main belt asteroid and names it Vainu Bappu—father of modern Indian astrophysics. His discovery of an important phenomenon in stellar chromospheres is known to researchers in astronomy as the Wilson-Bappu Effect.
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''' 5. A LAUNCHER OF OUR OWN 1980 '''
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On July 18, 1980, India preens with pride as it joins the exclusive club of space powers that can lob a satellite with a homemade rocket from their own soil. The second experimental Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-3) places the Rohini Satellite (RS-D1) in orbit almost a year after the first attempt failed in 1979.
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''' 6. COMMUNICATION LEAP 1982 '''
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India’s first indigenous communication satellite, Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1 A), is launched by the US Delta rocket on April 10, 1982.
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''' 7. MAN IN SPACE 1984 '''
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On April 2, 1984, the first and only Indian space traveller so far, Rakesh Sharma, is shot up into space to spend eight days aboard the Salyut 7 with two Soviet cosmonauts.
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''' 8. IF AK FIRST... 1994 '''
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The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is launched, using solid and liquid propulsive systems alternately, on October 15, 1994, after the failure of the first attempt.
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''' 9. TENACITY WINS 2003 '''
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The second flight of the Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle on May 8,2003 proves India can place a communications satellite into geosynchronous orbit after the first attempt in 2001.
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''' 10. MOON MAGIC 2008 '''
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India’s space programme comes of age as the first unmanned space mission Chandrayaan-1 reaches the moon. It includes a lunar orbiter and an impactor launched by a modified version of the PSLV on October 22, 2008 and inserted into lunar orbit on November 8, 2008.

Revision as of 18:01, 9 July 2015

This is a collection of articles archived for the excellence of their content.

10 space age moments

India Today, December 19, 2008

Amarnath K. Menon

1. WE HAVE LIFT-OFF 1975

The first Indian satellite Aryabhatta is launched by the Soviet Union from Kapustin Yar using a Kosmos—3M launch vehicle on April 19, 1975. Its aim is to provide an opportunity to conduct investigations in space sciences. It carries three experiments, one each in X-ray astronomy, solar physics and aeronomy.

2. SCREENING FOR ALL 1975

The Satellite Instructional Television Experiment begins on August 1, 1975, when 2,400 black and white community TV sets come alive in as many as villages in clusters across six states long before urban India experiences TV. NASA and ISRO join hands to design and implement this ambitious project.

3. SENSING IT RIGHT 1979

ISRO launches Bhaskara-1, a 444-kg experimental remote-sensing satellite for earth observations on June 7, 1979, from another Soviet Kosmos. The mission conducts earth observation experiments for applications related to hydrology and geology.

4. STELLAR HONOUR 1979

Astronomer R.M.West discovers a main belt asteroid and names it Vainu Bappu—father of modern Indian astrophysics. His discovery of an important phenomenon in stellar chromospheres is known to researchers in astronomy as the Wilson-Bappu Effect.

5. A LAUNCHER OF OUR OWN 1980

On July 18, 1980, India preens with pride as it joins the exclusive club of space powers that can lob a satellite with a homemade rocket from their own soil. The second experimental Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-3) places the Rohini Satellite (RS-D1) in orbit almost a year after the first attempt failed in 1979.

6. COMMUNICATION LEAP 1982

India’s first indigenous communication satellite, Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1 A), is launched by the US Delta rocket on April 10, 1982.

7. MAN IN SPACE 1984

On April 2, 1984, the first and only Indian space traveller so far, Rakesh Sharma, is shot up into space to spend eight days aboard the Salyut 7 with two Soviet cosmonauts.

8. IF AK FIRST... 1994

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is launched, using solid and liquid propulsive systems alternately, on October 15, 1994, after the failure of the first attempt.

9. TENACITY WINS 2003

The second flight of the Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle on May 8,2003 proves India can place a communications satellite into geosynchronous orbit after the first attempt in 2001.

10. MOON MAGIC 2008

India’s space programme comes of age as the first unmanned space mission Chandrayaan-1 reaches the moon. It includes a lunar orbiter and an impactor launched by a modified version of the PSLV on October 22, 2008 and inserted into lunar orbit on November 8, 2008.

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