Chandrayaan–PSLV model unveiled at Gandhipuram junction in Coimbatore city

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Chandrayaan rocket exemplary  installed astatine  Gandhipuram junction successful  Coimbatore city..

Chandrayaan rocket exemplary installed astatine Gandhipuram junction successful Coimbatore city.. | Photo Credit: PERIASAMY M

A exemplary representing Chandrayaan - Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) was unveiled astatine the Gandhipuram postulation land successful Coimbatore metropolis connected February 19, 2026 (Thursday). The installation forms portion of junction betterment works taken up with backstage participation.

The exemplary was inaugurated by the erstwhile Director, ISRO Satellite Centre, Mayilsamy Annadurai, successful the beingness of District Collector Pavankumar G. Giriyappanavar and Corporation Commissioner M. Sivaguru Prabakaran.

Mr. Annadurai said placing a Chandrayaan–PSLV exemplary successful a nationalist abstraction would assistance familiarise students with India’s abstraction missions and motorboat vehicles. He said it would promote schoolhouse and assemblage students to research opportunities successful the abstraction sector.

He referred to initiatives aimed astatine supporting authorities schoolhouse students successful subject and space-related fields and noted that students were processing projects each year, including experimental rockets tested on the Mahabalipuram coast.

Mr. Annadurai said India’s maturation indispensable widen from agriculture to abstraction and identified Kulasekarapattinam arsenic a cardinal determination for aboriginal abstraction activities. He said the state was moving towards home manufacturing of components and motorboat vehicles.

Published - February 20, 2026 06:40 p.m. IST

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