PSLV-C7 Successfully placed the satellites into the orbits

India's maiden attempt to place four satellites into the orbits went successfully early today.The PSLV placed the two Indian , one Indonesian and the Argentina satellites in to the orbits.The success should have given boost to the Indian Space Scientists, who are preparing for the Chandrayan Mission that is planned to take place early next year.

Placing the foreign satellites will help us in generating revenue to carry out further space experiments.Among all the satellites the one which is of more interest to me is the SRE-1 - Space capsule Recovery Experiment Vehicle.The payload of this is about 550 kg and the main intention is to observe the situations under micro gravity conditions.This is will orbiting for around two weeks before it is brought back to Earth.As per ISRO before entering the Earths atmosphere it will be placed in an Elliptical orbit.The vehicle is indigenously made to withstand the atmospheric changes it undergoes as soon as entering the Earth's atmosphere.It uses a parachute mechanism to bring down the vehicles speed, before it is made to fall into the Bay of Bengal sea[some 140 km away from the Sriharikota Andhra Pradesh].The SRE is so made that is can float on the water before it is identified by the recovery department.
This all is going to happen in the coming 2 weeks and hope the SRE-1 experiment will provide valuable inputs that will be useful to the ISROs unmanned expedition to the Lunar Surface and the Manned expedition to the space.Finally if all this goes as expected , India will be fourth country to have recovered the space object after USA,Russia and China.

For complete Information about all the Satellites carried by the PSLV-C7 refer this PDF form ISRO
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