ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan had
announced that GSLV rocket powered by India's own cryogenic engine carrying
communication satellite GSat-14 will be launched on August 6.The
Indian space agency will be mating its own cryogenic engine with its heavy
rocket - the geo-synchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV) - Friday afternoon
at its spaceport in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, said officials."The
process of fixing our cryogenic engine with GSLV will begin tomorrow (Friday)
afternoon. Then various tests will be carried out before the satellite is fixed
with the rocket," an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) official,
who did not want to be named, said.ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan had announced
that GSLV rocket powered by India's own cryogenic engine carrying communication
satellite GSat-14 will be launched August 6.This will be the first mission of
GSLV during the last three years after two such rockets failed in 2010.One of
the GSLV rockets flew with Indian cryogenic engine and the other one with a
Russian engine.The GSLV is a three stage/engine rocket. The first stage is
fired with solid fuel, the second is the liquid fuel and the third is the
cryogenic engine.
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