ISRO hits century of Missions from SHAR

Sriharikota, Jan. 29 -- The launch of GSLV-F15/NVS-02 Navigation Satellite marked a historic 100th launch mission of the ISRO in its space journey spanning 46 years, on Wednesday from this spaceport in Andhra Pradesh.

ISRO launched its first Rocket SLV-3E1/Rohini Technology Payload on August 10, 1979 and later ventured into SLV, PSLV, GSLV, , LVM3, SSLV, RLV, TV and PAT Missions, totalling 99 missions.

With today's launch, ISRO scripted history and achieved a significant milestone with a century of launches.

Since 1979 starting with Sounding Rockets -- Satellite Launch Vehicle-3 (SLV3-4 missions), ISRO progressed with Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle (ASLV-4 missions), Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-62 missions), GSLV (16 missio...