Moving Towers

March 14th

Today, with Physics department sponsorship, we the Physics Department students went to SriHariKota Satellite Launch Centre. They call it SHAR, an abbreviation of Sriharikota Range but I cannot understand how they got SHAR from Sriharikota Range. Its very hard to describe what I saw there, as it's nearly impossible to believe what I saw.

We left institute around 6 in the morning and reached there at 9. For the first time in institute, I got up as early as 4:45, but I felt it was worth it. The breakfast was nice , a thousand times better the the same old mess food. We were then taken to 2nd Satellite launch pad where a PSLV satellite is being integrated now. It was awesome.
The facility they had is an eighty meter tall building with a door nearly as tall. It can hold a PSLV, which is about 60 meters tall inside it. I personally felt PSLV is too thin, just 2.8 meters in diameter which is the size of a normal room. Its extremely difficult to believe, that they can actually transfer such a huge Rocket for 1 km on rails by just hinging them at the bottom using a just a single Bhogi.

The 1st launch pad was much more amazing. Its a 4000 ton metallic structure in which a satellite can be integrated. The plus point is that this structure can be moved on rails as if it is a car. We then went to the Launch Pad where just 4 weeks back the temperature was 3000k, during the last launch.
We also saw the control Station from which all the great satellites of INDIA have been launched. I really felt that our country is advancing at its best ability in this field.

Be proud to be an INDIAN !!!!