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We drove 50km to witness this spectacular event
The solitary tower on a nondescript road by the side of the Pulicat Lake overlooking the Chandrayaan-1 launchpad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) was deserted 4.30am.
The stillness of the chilly morning was disturbed by a few lights on the road. Exactly one hour and 50 minutes later, there was a huge rumble, a ball of fire and a pall of smoke which finally disappeared into the infinite skies.
Chandrayaan-I, India's first moon mission spacecraft, had successfully taken off, carrying with it a billion Indian dreams to the moon!

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Chandrayaan launch at Sriharikota



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Chandrayaan-Launch-india's Mission to Moon-Edited



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Chandrayaan-1 launched



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Chandrayaan-1 in earth's orbit, sends signals

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At the earliest opportunity, the spacecraft will eject the Moon Impact Probe to provide information about the lunar surface. The mission will then continue from orbit, with remote-sensing studies carried out by its 11 scientific instruments. Three of these instruments were provided by Europe (UK, Germany, Sweden) through ESA.

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PSLV-C11 Successfully Launches Chandrayaan-1
In its fourteenth flight conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota this morning (October 22, 2008), the Indian Space Research Organisations (ISROs) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C11, successfully launched the 1380 kg Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft into a transfer orbit with a perigee (nearest point to Earth) of 255 km and an apogee (farthest point to Earth) of 22,860 km, inclined at an angle of 17.9 deg to the equator.
After a 52 hour count down, PSLV-C11 lifted off from the Second Launch Pad at SDSC SHAR at 06:22 Hrs Indian Standard Time (IST) with the ignition of the core first stage. The important flight events included the separation of the first stage, ignition of the second stage, separation of the payload fairing at about 116 km altitude after the vehicle had cleared the dense atmosphere, second stage separation, third stage ignition, third stage separation, fourth stage ignition and fourth stage cut-off.

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Chandrayan launched
Chandrayaan - I Launch



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India sets its sights on the Moon



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Indias first unmanned flight to the moon blasted off from Sriharikota, off the Andhra Pradesh coast, early morning on Wednesday.
The launch was perfect and the space vehicle is going in the right direction.
A 44-metre-tall and 316-tonne rocket called the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV C11) carried the 1,380-kg lunar orbiter Chandrayaan 1 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at around 0620 hrs IST.

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