India Monday successfully launched its most powerful home-produced rocket, another milestone for its indigenous space programme which one day hopes to put a human into orbit. “The GSLV – MKIII D1/GSAT-19 mission takes India closer to the next generation launch vehicle and satellite capability,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted on his Twitter account. “The nation is proud!”The rocket boasts a powerful engine that has been developed in India over many years. Some engineers have spent their life working on this,” Mathieu Weiss, a representative in India for France’s space agency CNES, said. With #GSLVMK3 Fat boy India joins the league of US,Russia and China to send Manned Mission to spaceA very proud moment for #ISRO and India!

Source: Dhaka Tribune June 05, 2017 15:33 UTC