Chaandradinam

സ്കൂള്‍ സയന്‍സ് ക്ലബ്ബിന്‍റെ നേ തൃത്വതില്‍ ചാന്ദ്രദിനം സമുചിതമായി ആഘോഷിച്ചു .ഒരു റിപ്പോര്‍ട്ട്‌ .

19-07-2012 വ്യാഴാഴ്ച രാവിലെ 9 മണിയോടെ ഞങ്ങള്‍ 65 കുട്ടികളും 5 അദ്ധ്യാപകരും രണ്ട് മിനിബസ്സുകളിലായി പുറപ്പെട്ടു .പോകുന്ന വഴിയില്‍ ടൈടാ  നിയം ,വേളി  ടൂറിസ്റ്റ് വില്ലേജ്‌ എന്നിവ കണ്ടിരുന്നു .
                                                              9.45 ന് സെക്യൂരിറ്റി പരിശോധന കള്‍ക്കു ശേഷം വി .എസ് .എസ് .സി .യുടെ സ്പേസ് മ്യുസിയത്തില്‍ എത്തി .പുരാതനമായ ഒരു ക്രിസ്ത്യന്‍ പള്ളിയാണ് മ്യുസിയമായിരൂപപ്പെടുത്തിയിട്ടുള്ളത് .ഞങ്ങള്‍ മ്യുസിയത്തില്‍കണ്ട  ഇന്ത്യയുടെ ബഹിരാകാശ ഗവേഷണത്തിന്‍റെ ഒരു ടൈംലൈന്‍ ചുവടെ .

1971 ISRO carried out pioneering work in the design and development of communication transponders that are used in INSAT series of satellites. 1972 The Government of India constituted the Space Commission and established the Department of Space (DoS) in 1972 and brought ISRO under DoS management. 1977 Satellite Telecommunication Experiments Project (STEP), a joint ISRO-Post and Telegraphs Department project launched using the Franco-German Symphonie satellite for the proposed operational domestic satellite system, INSAT, for the country. 1979 Bhaskara-I fired into space . ISRO also launched SLV-3. However, the satellite could not be placed in orbit. The second experimental launch of SLV-3; Rohini satellite successfully placed in orbit on July. 1981 An experimental geo-stationary communication satellite - APPLE successfully launched. Bhaskara-II launched that was meant to study ocean and land surface data at a cost Rs. 6.5 crore. 1983 INSAT-1B, launched on August 30. 1987 The first developmental launch of a larger Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle (ASLV) rocket on March 24 did not place its SROSS-1 satellite in orbit. It could lift a 300-lb satellite to an orbit 250 miles above Earth. 1990 The three satellites (the first-generation Insat-1D, the second-generation Insat-2A, and Insat-2B) were indigenously built under the direction of the ISRO and put into geostationary orbit over the Indian Ocean using French rockets launched in French Guiana. 1992 The Indian-built INSAT-2 geostationary communications and meteorological satellite superseded an American-built INSAT-1. 1993 The even larger Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) debuted this year, but failed to attain orbit. Its individual elements were successful. PSLV can lift a one-ton satellite to a Sun-synchronous polar orbit. 1996 ISRO had taken up the development of cryogenic stage in 1996 to achieve self-reliance in cryogenic propulsion technology. 1999 India reached a milestone in space technology when its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C2, successfully launched three satellites. 2001 PSLV-C3 successfully launched three satellites -- Technology Experiment Satellite (TES) of ISRO, BIRD of Germany and PROBA of Belgium. 2003 INSAT-3A launched by Ariane from Kourou French Guyana. Successful launch of INSAT-3E, ISRO`s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C5, successfully launched RESOURCESAT-1 (IRS-P6) satellite). 2004 Maiden operational flight of GSLV (GSLV-F01) launched EDUSAT from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota. (Image courtesy: www.philip9876.files.wordpress.com ) 2005 PSLV-C6 carries CARTOSAT-1 and HAMSAT satellites into orbit. 2007 ISRO launches India's CARTOSAT-2 and Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1) and Indonesia's LAPAN-TUBSAT and Argentina's PEHUENSAT-1 at one go. 2008 PSLV-C10 successfully launches TECSAR satellite. PSLV-C9 successfully launches CARTOSAT-2A, IMS-1 and 8 foreign satellites. Chandrayaan-1 launched by a modified version of the PSLV. 2009 Chandrayaan 1 launched in 2008 discovered that there is water in lunar soil, major breakthrough for NASA that used the satellite for this.