[swatkat]

Today, ISRO's PSLV[1] launched five international satellites into their sun-synchronous orbits - SPOT-7 from France, AISAT from Germany, NLS 7.1 and 7.2 from Canada, and VELOX-1 from Singapore[2]. This was PSLV's 25th successive successful mission.

Here's complete launch video if anyone's interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR5S5nNbd4U (00:45:00 onwards)

This was 114th space mission of ISRO. Here's a complete list of ISRO missions till date: http://www.isro.org/publications/pdf/114%20missions%20Brochu...

Next up, I am waiting for GSLV Mk3 X1 mission in July, in which they're going to test new GSLV Mk3 heavy lifter[3] launch vehicle and a Crew Module[4].

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Satellite_Launch_Vehicle

[2]http://www.isro.org/pslv-c23/pdf/pslv-c23-brochure.pdf

[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_Satellite_Launch...

[4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISRO_Orbital_Vehicle

[anirudhan]

Any idea why the screen blacks out a few times from 2933 seconds? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR5S5nNbd4U&t=2933

[pavanky]

> 25th successive successful mission.

You added a word. What is more impressive is the current streak of 23 successful missions going back to 1999.

[walls]

> successive - following one another or following others

> successful - accomplishing an aim or purpose

What's the extra word here?

[pavanky]

There have been 25 total successful missions for PSLV. 23 of them have been successive / consecutive. Considering that "successive" is not a word used commonly and that the fact that the number of "successive" missions was wrong, I thought it was a typo.