Aerospace Diary

Neelam Mathews April 8, 2013 The Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) AGNI-II was successfully flight tested at 10:25 hrs by the Indian Armed Forces from Wheeler’s Island off the coast of Odisha. The two stage vehicle launched from a mobile launcher has met all the mission objectives. Radars and Electro-Optical Tracking Systems located all along have tracked and monitored all the parameters of the vehicle.Two ships located near the target point in the Bay of Bengal witnessed the final event.  The launch operations were witnessed by the DRDO scientists led by the Project Director D. Lakshminarayana.  Program Director Avinash Chander, DS & CC R&D (MSS) guided the teams during the all operations.

Posted by- Neelam Mathews Sept 30,2011 DRDOs Agni II was launched once again, successfully today, from Wheeler Island off the coast of ORISSA. This follows the successful launches of SHOURYA & PRITHIVI-II in the past seven days. “The successful launch once again proved reliability of the medium range surface to surface missile,” says DRDO. The 2000 km range surface to surface missile, already inducted and part of countries arsenal for strategic deterrence, was launched as a training exercise by the armed forces. The two stage missile equipped with advanced high accuracy navigation system, guided by a novel scheme of state of the earth command & control system was propelled by solid rocket propellant system. The missile reached an apogee (peak altitude) of 220 km and hit the target. All the radar, telemetry systems, ectopic system tracked & monitored all parameters throughout the trajectory. Two ships located near the target point have tracked the missile in the f...