India’s first indigenous all-weather Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) was injected into orbit with textbook precision in yet another successful launch by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C19 at 5.47 am, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Shar in Sriharikota, located in SPSR Nellore district in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday.
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C19 took off majestically into a clear sky, orange flame streaming from its tail, leaving behind a trail of smoke.
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Met: normal monsoon
Rashme Sehgal
New Delhi, April 26
Indian farmers can heave a sigh of relief as the Meteorological Department has forecast a normal monsoon for 2012 with the rains expected to hit Kerala on June 1.
This will be the third normal monsoon in three consecutive years.
Science and technology minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said the monsoon is classified as “normal” if the rainfall is between 96 and 104 per cent of the average seasonal rainfall.