New Delhi: After 11 days in space, Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) recoverable satellite re-entered the Earth and splashed down into the waters of Bay of Bengal on Monday morning as planned.
The 555 kg space capsule is in the process of being recovered by the coastguard off the Ennore Coast near Chennai, so that it can be sent back to ISRO. The coastguard is hoping that the capsule can be recovered by Monday evening.
The capsule is ISRO's first experiment with re-entry, recoverable and re-usable technology and has two payloads to conduct experiments in micro-gravity.
As part of the mission, ISRO's workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C7) had put Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE) satellite into space alongwith three others on January 10.
The 550-kg Space-Capsule Recovery Experiment was intended for demonstrating the capability to recover an orbiting space capsule, as also the associated technologies.
"SRE is intended to test reusable thermal protection system, navigation, guidance and control, hypersonic aero-dynamics, management of communication blackout, deceleration and flotation system and recovery experiments", an ISRO official was quoted by PTI as saying.
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