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ISRO makes history, its heaviest rocket LVM3-M2 successfully placed all 36 satellites

Indian Space Research Organisations’ heaviest LVM3-M2 rocket successfully placed 36 UK-based customer broadband communications satellites into their intended orbit on its first commercial mission on Sunday, the space agency said, describing the mission as “historic”. OneWeb Ltd is a UK customer of NewSpace India Ltd (NSIL), the commercial arm of ISRO and a global space-powered communications…

India sets new world record, launching 104 satellites at once. Creating a new world record in the process, India successfully kicked off their 217 launch calendar February 14 by launching a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle with 104 satellites. The rocket launched at 10:58pm EST from the Satish Dhawan Space Center. Lofted into a sun-synchronous orbit by the rocket’s fourth stage, 101 cubesats accompanied three larger satellites on the mission. CartoSat-2D is the fourth in a series of high-resolution Earth-imaging satellites domestically designed by India. Less than ten seconds after CartoSat-2D was deployed, the INA-1A and 1B satellites were released. These two satellites are technology demonstrators for a new, smaller satellite bus that India hopes can attract universities and small businesses for space-based payloads. Of the 101 cubesats deployed, 88 belonged to the Planet company, which - when combined with 100 identical satellites already in polar orbit- will photograph the entire surface of the Earth every day. Eight other cubesats belonged to Spire Global, and will measure atmospheric conditions and global shipping traffic. The remaining five are scientific and communication technology demonstrators ISRO - the Indian Space Research organization - released a stunning video of the PSLV launch, the first time footage from onboard rocket cameras have been released. Key events in the rocket’s ascent can be seen, including the jettisoning of its six strap-on solid rocket motors, separation of its second and third stages, and jettisoning of the payload fairing. 

Images of integration of PSLV-C54 scheduled to launch on 26 November 2022.

India launched its maiden indigenous winged Reusable Launch Vehicle, RLV, from Sriharikota spaceport in 2016. The RLV Technology Demonstration (RLV-TD), which is ultimately aimed at putting satellites into orbit around Earth and then re-entering the atmosphere, was carried up on a solid rocket motor. The nine-metre-long rocket weighs 11 tonnes. Very similar in its looks to the US space shuttle,…

PSLV-C63/TDS-01 and the Architecture of Strategic Self-Reliance There are moments in the biography of a space programme when a single launch transcends its own mission parameters — when what is being tested aboard a rocket is not merely a satellite subsystem but a national philosophy. The imminent liftoff of PSLV-C63 carrying the Technology Demonstration Satellite-01 (TDS-01) from the Satish…

Sriharikota News: इसरो (ISRO) के मिशन में एक बेहद अजीब और हैरान करने वाली घटना हुई है। सोमवार को पीएसएलवी-सी62 रॉकेट अपनी उड़ान के दौरान फेल हो गया। रॉकेट अपने तय रास्ते से भटक गया और मिशन असफल घोषित कर दिया गया। इस हादसे में कई महत्वपूर्ण उपग्रह नष्ट हो गए। लेकिन, इस तबाही के बीच एक ‘चमत्कार’ हुआ है। मलबे और आग के बीच से स्पेन का एक छोटा कैप्सूल सुरक्षित बच निकला। उसने पृथ्वी पर डाटा भी भेजा है।…