MPs compliment ISRO on launch of INSAT-4B

Saturday, March 17, 2007, 20:40 [IST]

New Delhi, Mar 12 (UNI) Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and members of the House today congratulated the Chairman and scientists of ISRO on the successful launch of INSAT-4B.

Earlier, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Prithviraj Chavan announced in the Rajya Sabha that India's latest satellite INSAT-4B was successfully launched early this morning by European Ariane-5 launch vehicle from Kourou, French Guyana.

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