Countdown for India’s ambitious rocket mission begins

Sriharikota (AP), Apr 14: The 29-hour countdown for tomorrow’s launch of a homegrown rocket GSLV-D3 powered for the first time by indigenous cryogenic technology ticked today without any hitches and a successful mission will put India in an elite five-nation group.
 Nearly 18 years after Indian scientists began working to develop the complex cryogenic engines, it will be for the first time that ISRO will be flight-testing the strategic technology, which is crucial to put communication satellites weighing more than two tonnes into geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO). Geosynchronous orbit is 36,000 km above earth.
 The 29-hour countdown began at 11.27 am and “things were progressing as per countdown”, an Indian Space Research Organisation spokesperson said.

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