ISRO’s PSLV-C54 rocket with Oceansat, 8 other satellites to launch tomorrow
Experts of the Indian Area Investigate Organisation (ISRO) commenced the countdown on Friday for the start of Earth Observation Satellite – Oceansat – and 8 other customer satellites on a from the spaceport of Sriharikota on Saturday.
The 25.30-hour countdown for the 56th flight of the Polar Satellite Start Automobile (PSLV), in its prolonged version (PSLV-XL), started at 10.26 AM today for the raise-off scheduled at 11.56 AM on Saturday from the to start with launchpad at the Satish Dhawan Area Centre, Sriharikota, 115 km from here, a source reported.
The principal payload of the rocket is an Oceansat which would be separated in orbit-1 though the 8 other nano-satellites would be put in distinctive orbits primarily based on the customer demands (in the Sunshine-synchronous polar orbits).
Such as the key payload, nine satellites would journey piggy-back on the 44.4-metre large PSLV-C54 which has a lift-off mass of 321 tonne. It is also the 24th flight of the PSLV-XL edition.
The mission would be a single of the longest ones carried out by the ISRO experts who would interact the rocket to improve orbits making use of two-orbit transform thrusters (OCTs) utilized in the PSLV-C54 start car or truck. The separation of the Earth Observation Satellite is predicted to take place in orbit-1 whilst the passenger payloads would be divided in Orbit-2.
The Earth Observation Satellite is predicted to be positioned after reaching an altitude of about 742 km about 20 minutes immediately after lift-off. Following the key satellite separation, the motor vehicle would be lowered to attain an altitude of 516 km for putting of the very first passenger satellite. The last payload separation is expected to consider place at an altitude of 528 km, ISRO claimed.
The Earth Observation Satellite-6 is the third-generation satellite in the Oceansat collection. This is to provide continuity expert services of Oceansat-2 spacecraft with improved payload specs as very well as software spots. The aim of the mission is to assure data continuity of ocean color and wind vector information to sustain the operational applications.
The buyer payloads consist of ISRO Nano Satellite-2 for Bhutan (INS-2B) which would have two payloads namely NanoMx and APRS-Digipeater. NanoMx is a multispectral optical imaging payload created by Room Purposes Centre while APRS-Digipeater payload is jointly formulated by Division of Details Technological know-how and Telecom, Bhutan, and U R Rao Satellite Centre, Bengaluru.
The ‘Anand’ satellite formulated by Pixxel is technology demonstrator to reveal the capabilities and business programs of miniature earth observation digital camera for observation working with a micro-satellite in small earth orbit.
The ‘Thybolt’ (two satellites) is from another area get started-up Dhruva House while Astrocast is a technology demonstrator satellite for the world wide web of things as the payload from Spaceflight, the United States of The us.
Experts of the Indian Area Investigate Organisation (ISRO) commenced the countdown on Friday for the start of Earth Observation Satellite – Oceansat – and 8 other customer satellites on a from the spaceport of Sriharikota on Saturday.
The 25.30-hour countdown for the 56th flight of the Polar Satellite Start Automobile (PSLV), in its prolonged version (PSLV-XL), started at 10.26 AM today for the raise-off scheduled at 11.56 AM on Saturday from the to start with launchpad at the Satish Dhawan Area Centre, Sriharikota, 115 km from here, a source reported.
The principal payload of the rocket is an Oceansat which would be separated in orbit-1 though the 8 other nano-satellites would be put in distinctive orbits primarily based on the customer demands (in the Sunshine-synchronous polar orbits).
Such as the key payload, nine satellites would journey piggy-back on the 44.4-metre large PSLV-C54 which has a lift-off mass of 321 tonne. It is also the 24th flight of the PSLV-XL edition.
The mission would be a single of the longest ones carried out by the ISRO experts who would interact the rocket to improve orbits making use of two-orbit transform thrusters (OCTs) utilized in the PSLV-C54 start car or truck. The separation of the Earth Observation Satellite is predicted to take place in orbit-1 whilst the passenger payloads would be divided in Orbit-2.
The Earth Observation Satellite is predicted to be positioned after reaching an altitude of about 742 km about 20 minutes immediately after lift-off. Following the key satellite separation, the motor vehicle would be lowered to attain an altitude of 516 km for putting of the very first passenger satellite. The last payload separation is expected to consider place at an altitude of 528 km, ISRO claimed.
The Earth Observation Satellite-6 is the third-generation satellite in the Oceansat collection. This is to provide continuity expert services of Oceansat-2 spacecraft with improved payload specs as very well as software spots. The aim of the mission is to assure data continuity of ocean color and wind vector information to sustain the operational applications.
The buyer payloads consist of ISRO Nano Satellite-2 for Bhutan (INS-2B) which would have two payloads namely NanoMx and APRS-Digipeater. NanoMx is a multispectral optical imaging payload created by Room Purposes Centre while APRS-Digipeater payload is jointly formulated by Division of Details Technological know-how and Telecom, Bhutan, and U R Rao Satellite Centre, Bengaluru.
The ‘Anand’ satellite formulated by Pixxel is technology demonstrator to reveal the capabilities and business programs of miniature earth observation digital camera for observation working with a micro-satellite in small earth orbit.
The ‘Thybolt’ (two satellites) is from another area get started-up Dhruva House while Astrocast is a technology demonstrator satellite for the world wide web of things as the payload from Spaceflight, the United States of The us.
