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Are you sure? That sadhu was clean shaven, both beard and head.
Congratulations ISRO and Bharat. Proud moment. Looking forward to more such successes. Just one wish, wanna see an Indian in space launched from India in an Indian rocket before 2025.
Gagan wrote:2 more launches later this month
June 23, PSLV launch
June 28, GSLV MK2 launch
Incredible, where did you hear of the GSLV Mark 2 launch on June 28th? I'm guessing the info is incorrect, but would love to be wrong! 3 GSLV missions( 2 mark 2, 1 mark 3) in the span of 7 weeks, whoa!
I have a couple of photos of GSLV MkIII D1 in flight and booster separation taken from Chennai 80km from launch pad, will be posting on my Twitter @kakarat2001 in few min (Please don't expect super Quality)
Kakarat wrote:I have a couple of photos of GSLV MkIII D1 in flight and booster separation taken from Chennai 80km from launch pad, will be posting on my Twitter @kakarat2001 in few min (Please don't expect super Quality)
Once the rocket launches, DD needs to keep their camera on the rocket only. The editing team should NOT show us the scientists.
On GSLV Launches, they can see the launcher for a fairly long time. Hope they will procure a few stabilized telescopic hi def cameras to show the launch.
It may be possible to even see the Cryo ignition from the ground, it the weather is good, and if the camera has adequate zoom and stabilization.
Hope ISRO will increase the bandwidth so that higher quality video is transferred from the launch vehicle itself. Maybe a camera on the outside of the vehicle facing down, in high def, streaming live. (They already have such a camera on the PSLVs adn GSLVs)
BRILLIANT. Watched it live on TV. To me the highlight of this mission as at 39.5 in the following video. The a few seconds before the confirmation of the CUS ignition in the commentary, a man in white shirt and glasses peers into his screen, just after L110 separation and starts smiling and then when the confirmation is announced and the clapping starts, he wipes a single tear of joy in his left eye.
That man was in charge of the CUS project and it basically is his baby! Congratulations. Well done! I noticed that during the Live telecast as well and got to know when he spoke after the launch. Anyone catch his name ?
Are you sure? That sadhu was clean shaven, both beard and head.
Congratulations ISRO and Bharat. Proud moment. Looking forward to more such successes. Just one wish, wanna see an Indian in space launched from India in an Indian rocket before 2025.
Sadhguru was there. There was one more Sanyasin in ocher robe & clean shaven present too.
Congratulations on a job well done ISRO.
Hope folks at ISRO can finally get rid of their petitioning approach to GOI and demand the sanction of funds for Human space flight as a right. GoI has been sitting on the Human space flight project for too long.
Nationalist media and folks on SM should bury this "ISRO works with shoestring budget" line and demand the govt to put an order of magnitude more money in space & engineering R&D .
Great achievement!! First time launch. Congratulations to ISRO.
Kakarat, great pictures specially of the booster separation, better than DD and reminiscent of SpaceX first stage separation!! You should replace DD as official photographer/videographer for ISRO.
Congrats ISRO for a significant next step. CUS seemed to have better performance than expected. The orbit parameters were achieved a little earlier than the projected curve, I thought.
Tanaji wrote:BBC doing an execrable job in reporting as usual. Going on about elephants and what not.
Unfortunately, the beeb is only repeating what indian reports have been saying and carrying it a step further. This elephant nonsense was started by NDTV's Pallava Bagla in one of his reports. I wonder why we cannot report on indigenous technical achievements in a mature and inspiring way. Somehow DDM feels that they have to make some weird comparisons or else their audience will not grasp the importance.
Tanaji wrote:BBC doing an execrable job in reporting as usual. Going on about elephants and what not.
Unfortunately, the beeb is only repeating what indian reports have been saying and carrying it a step further. This elephant nonsense was started by NDTV's Pallava Bagla in one of his reports. I wonder why we cannot report on indigenous technical achievements in a mature and inspiring way. Somehow DDM feels that they have to make some weird comparisons or else their audience will not grasp the importance.
No. I liked the elephant comparison. That sort of comparison has been done in western media for decades to tell the ordinary mango man "The rocket weighs as much as 200 cars" or "it is as long as 2 football fields". Balls to BBC I don't know why anyone would watch BBC unless he is living in Bilayat.
Our satellite launch capability is far ahead of Britain. In 1987 - living in the UK - I recall calculating that Indians GDP was 1/6th of Britain. 30 years later we are catching up with an admittedly small nation that has a 150 year lead on us in industrialization. We will soon be farting on them and all they will see is atmospheric distortion from hot fart gas from Indian musharraf
vina wrote:BRILLIANT. Watched it live on TV. To me the highlight of this mission as at 39.5 in the following video. The a few seconds before the confirmation of the CUS ignition in the commentary, a man in white shirt and glasses peers into his screen, just after L110 separation and starts smiling and then when the confirmation is announced and the clapping starts, he wipes a single tear of joy in his left eye.
That man was in charge of the CUS project and it basically is his baby! Congratulations. Well done! I noticed that during the Live telecast as well and got to know when he spoke after the launch. Anyone catch his name ?
He is Cryo PD, Narayanan. The guy in red maroon shirt to his left who shakes hand with him soon after the announcement of CE 20 ignition is GSLV Mk 3 PD, Ayyappan.
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This is a historic moment and we have crappy visuals from DD for eternity! Why can't they give access to a private firm and film and edit it? I hope they have done it even if not transmitted live.
Imagine few decades from now and kids going to space museum and being shown these crappy visuals! Very inspiring in terms of achievement but not matching the same in terms of visuals spoiling the moment a bit!
Nasa uses some very neat tracking cameras to video launches. DD can get something decent to track and video these launches. Atleast stabilised tracking of the LV will yield better videos not to mention HD video. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shut ... agery.html
