ISRO TO ATTEMPT 200TH SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH OF SOUNDING ROCKET IN A ROW

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will attempt the 200th consecutively successful launch of the Rohini RH-200 sounding rocket on Wednesday from Thumba here.
Former President Ram Nath Kovind will be present at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), ISRO’s lead unit on launch vehicles, to witness the launch. The launch window is between 11 a.m. and noon, a VSSC official said here on Monday.
Kovind will address the VSSC community and release a coffee-table book on the RH-200 rocket. ISRO Chairman S. Somanath and VSSC Director S. Unnikrishnan Nair will be present. The event is not open to the public.
RH-200 is a solid motor-powered, expendable rocket capable of climbing up to a height of 70 km bearing payloads designed to study the upper atmosphere.
An RH-200 had lifted off successfully from Thumba for the 199th time in a row in October this year.

SOURCE: THE HINDU, THE ECONOMIC TIMES, PIB

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