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President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Narendra Modi today congratulated Indian Space Research Organization, ISRO on PSLV’s successful launch of ASTROSAT. In his message to Chairman of ISRO, A.S. Kiran Kumar, President Pranab Mukherjee said, with the successful launch of Astrosat, the nation has become the fourth country in the world to have launched a space observatory, which will be useful in the improved study of celestial objects and the universe.
The President said, the nation is proud of this impressive achievement, which has demonstrated, yet again, India’s increasing space capabilities. In a tweet, Mr Modi said, this is one more grand accomplishment for Indian science and the scientists.
The Vice President of India, Hamid Ansari has also congratulated the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on PSLV’s successful launch of ASTROSAT.
“I learnt with great happiness that Indian Space Research Organization’s PSLV C-30 rocket today successfully placed in orbit – AstroSat, India’s first dedicated astronomy satellite as well as Canada’s NLS-14 nanosatellite, Indonesia’s LAPAN-A2 microsatellite and four identical LEMUR nano satellites for the United States. The scientific payloads abroad AstroSat will help the scientific community in improving our understanding of the universe.
I congratulate all the members of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) team for this accomplishment. This is another successful chapter in the saga achievements of our scientists, engineers and technologists. They have again shown the strength of India’s scientific capacity and have done the nation proud. I wish ISRO success to in all their future endeavors.” Vice President’s said in a congratulatory message