India has stepped its foot in the universe long back, but this time the story is different and way bigger than the former achievements. On Monday, India has successfully launched five foreign satellites from on board PSLV-C23 rocket. This outstanding achievement of the space scientists in India has been described by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an 'endorsement' of the country's exceptional space capabilities.
Earlier Indian Space Research Organization's workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C23, immediately after its perfect lift from the Launch Pad in Satish Dhawan Space Centre has effortlessly placed all five satellites precisely into their pre-determined orbits, in a succession and it took just about 17 and 19 minutes after lift-off. The countdown for the launch of ISR0’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C28(PSLV-C28) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) at SHAR began at 7.28 am on Wednesday.
Sources said, this time there will be five commercial satellites like DMC3-1, DMC3-2, DMC3-3, each of which will be weighing 447 kg. It's built by the leading Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), the UK, CBNT-1, and DE-OrbitSail. It's also revealed that the satellites will be launched into a 647 km Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) only after continuous sixty two hours and a half starting from 9.58 pm on July 10.
Sources said, this time there will be five commercial satellites like DMC3-1, DMC3-2, DMC3-3, each of which will be weighing 447 kg. It's built by the leading Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), the UK, CBNT-1, and DE-OrbitSail. It's also revealed that the satellites will be launched into a 647 km Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) only after continuous sixty two hours and a half starting from 9.58 pm on July 10.
The three DCMC-3, optical earth observation satellites were designed by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), but the other two auxiliary devices namely CBNT-1 are fabricated by the Surrey Space Centre(SSC All five satellites were weighing about 1,440 kg, which is considered as the heaviest commercial mission ever embarked on by Antrix/ISRO.
It's also said that the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in its upcoming thirtieth flight (PSLV-C28), will also come up with three identical vehicles named DMC3 optical earth observation satellites. So far PSLV vehicles has launched various satellites and PSLV-C28 is the ninth flight of PSLV in ‘XL’ configuration.
PSLV is indeed an excellent venture of the Indian Space scientists. PM Modi is quite hopeful about the booming future of India's space science in the world.
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