New Delhi: Following the successful deployment of the CMS-03 communications satellite for the Indian Navy, there was an extended silence before the Mission Director Victor Joseph announced the success of the mission. This was because ISRO conducted an additional ‘experiment’ that was not disclosed ahead of the mission, or informed to the viewers of the live programming. ISRO Chairman V Narayanan explained, “Generally, immediately after the end of the third stage, we clap and get up, you have observed. Today, we were waiting, because, we had planned an experiment. After the satellite is injected, we wanted to reorient the cryo stage, and after something around 120 seconds, we have targeted a restart experiment. So for two minutes of pin drop silence, we were all waiting for that result

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