Kulasekarapattinam (Tuticorin District, Tamil Nadu) ideal for ISRO's Third Launch Pad

Scientists and Politicians batting for Third ISRO LaunchPad in Tuticorin (Kulasekarapattinam)  

ISRO has gained lot of popularity after Chandrayan, which got more boost with Mangalyan (a rocket to explore Planet Mars)

With the need for more satellites in the modern  times, ISRO is expanding its launching capabilities. ISRO is planning to have one more Launch Pad and is looking for options

Option 1) Sriharikota
Option 2) Kulasekarapattinam

Scientists after the feasibility study prefer Kulasekarapattinam
say Tuticorin (Kulasekarapattinam) is a good location for a rocket that needs to fly southwards. As a matter of fact, Tuticorin was long ago considered for locating a rocket launching site but the locals opposed this,” a senior official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) commented

“A rocket launch site should be on the east coast and near the equator. And Tuticorin district satisfies that condition,” a former ISRO official told IANS.

According to him, a spaceport in Tuticorin district will be ideal for putting satellites in polar orbit normally undertaken through ISRO’s polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) and not for satellites for geostationary orbits undertaken by the geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV). Kulasekarapattinam, a busy port a century ago is now mostly deserted and ideal for setting up a large project like this.


Former Chief Minister , Karunanidhi and his daughter Kanimozhi are batting hard to bring the Launch Pad to Tuticorin district . Karunanidhi also suggested that an Indian Institute of Aerospace and Propulsion Technology be set up at Mahendragiri in Tirunelveli district, around 650 km from here.


DMK Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi has approached the Prime Minister and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi to bring the rocket launch centre to Kulasekarapattinam, which is only 40 km from the liquid propulsion system centre at Mahendragiri from where most of the equipment would be mobilised for satellite and rocket launches.
ISRO has its Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) at Mahendragiri where it assembles the second and fourth stage/engines for the PSLV. The centre also assembles the second stage engine for the GSLV rocket.

“Instead of transporting the second and fourth stages to Sriharikota from Mahendragiri it will be easier to shift them to the launch pad if it is built in Kulasekarapattinam which is around 100 km away. Further it is also near the equator,”

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Nilakanta Bramachari - the 'Guru' for Vanchi Nathan

The arrest of the nationalist leaders, harsh punishment for the nationalist leaders inside the prison and the collapse of the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company led to the formation of a revolutionary organization in Tamil Nadu called the Bharathamatha Association. Nilakanta Bramachari played a vital role in it. One of the followers of this association Vanchi Nathan shot dead the notorious British official Robert William Ashe at Maniyatchi junction on 17 June 1911 in front of his wife.

Nilakanta (Neelaganda Brahmachari) toured places like Tenkasi and conducted meetings in secret, exhorting people to drive the English out. During such meetings he met and made friends with Vanchi. The meetings in secret had all the characteristics of an esoteric secret society with its own rituals and rites. Arumugham Pillai described a meeting thus: “There was a picture of Goddess Kali. There were red powder (kumkum), sacred ash (vibhuthi), and flowers. On the floor sat four or five people in a line. Nilakanta sat a little away and wrote on sheets of paper. We put the red powder into water and made a solution of it and each of us applied it on the paper. Now it was the white man’s blood... on the top of the paper ‘Vande Matharam’ was written... We should kill all white men… We must sacrifice our lives, person and property for this society. But whoever reveals the affairs of this society, he shall go to hell and he will be killed... As we drank the red powder solution, now to us it was the white man’s blood....”. (http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2019%20No%208/The_Ashe_murder_case.html)

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Chennai to Tiruchendur by Flight (Air) - Tiruchendur Airport

How to go to Tiruchendur by Flight (Air) Tiruchendur's nearest airport Tuticorin is 40 minutes drive from the Temple Town. There are daily flights to  Tiruchendur from Chennai.

Tuticorin aiport is very near to Tiruchendur. This is located near 48 kms from Tiruchendur

Call Taxi in Tiruchendur

From there you can hire a Taxi (it costs Rs 900 for one way and Rs 1600 for two ways) from Tuticorin.

The route is through Mukkani, Arugmuganeri .. through good road with Banana plantation on either side.

Don't miss to have the breakfast at Hotel Annapurna on the way to Tiruchendur .. the Idly and Chuteny is fantastic