Sriharikota: The launch of GSLV-F15/NVS-02 Navigation Satellite marked a historic 100th launch mission of the ISRO in its space journey spanning 46 years, on Wednesday from this spaceport in Andhra Pradesh.
ISRO launched its first Rocket SLV-3E1/Rohini Technology Payload on August 10, 1979 and later ventured into SLV, PSLV, GSLV, , LVM3, SSLV, RLV, TV and PAT Missions, totalling 99 missions.
With today’s launch, ISRO scripted history and achieved a significant milestone with a century of launches.
Since 1979 starting with Sounding Rockets — Satellite Launch Vehicle-3 (SLV3-4 missions), ISRO progressed with Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle (ASLV-4 missions), Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-62 missions), GSLV (16 missions), Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3 earlier GSLV-MkIII,
7 missions), Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV, 3 missions), Air Breathing Propulsion Project (ABPP) and Reusable Launch Vehicle – Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) and two sub-orbital rocket launches by two private firms, marking a total of 99 missions from the SHAR Range.
And today, the Space Agency. which had achieved record feats like inter-space exploratory missions to Moon, landing on the South Polar Region of Moon, Sun and Mars, achieved the unique record of 100 missions.
