Land being acquired for 2nd spaceport: ISRO

India will join the select club of nations, which have multiple rocket launch centres, once the second space port, planned to be established at Thoothukudi, materialises, ISRO Chairman K Sivan said here on Wednesday.

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Updated:2nd Jan, 2020 at 1:53 AM

Bengaluru

Speaking to newspersons here, the ISRO chief said the land acquisition process for the proposed second launch pad at Titicorin has been confirmed and the ISRO has already taken possession of over 2300 acres for the proposed project.

He said the new launch pad will initially be utilised for the launch of newly-developed Small Satellite Launch Vehicles (SSLV), before moving forward to launch the PSLVs and the GSLVs.

Maintaining that 2019 was the most eventful year for ISRO, he said ‘’The institution had added many more coveted feathers to it’s cap, including the Chandrayaan-2 mission’’.

Presenting a bird’s view of what had been achieved in 2019 and targeted for the New Year 2020, the ISRO chief said ‘’We have successfully achieved our target on twin objectives of Expansion programme and Capacity building and outreach programme during the year’’.

Land being acquired for 2nd spaceport: ISRO

India will join the select club of nations, which have multiple rocket launch centres, once the second space port, planned to be established at Thoothukudi, materialises, ISRO Chairman K Sivan said here on Wednesday.

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