The final 51-hour countdown to the launch of Isro’s hundredth mission on Sunday was initiated at 6.51 am on Friday at Sriharikota. The rocket is the core-alone version (no strap-on motors) of the highly-proven four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). It will be the 22nd PSLV flight and the eighth one of the core-alone configuration.
The much-awaited lift off slated for 9.51 am will be witnessed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. It is the hundredth flight after the launch of India’s first indigenous satellite, Aryabhata, in Russia on April 19, 1975.
This historic mission will place in orbit a French advanced remote sensing satellite, Spot-6, an observation satellite with a lift-off mass of 712 kg, and a Japanese micro satellite, Proiteres weighing 15 kg.
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