ISRO to put 8 satellites in two orbits today

[LOGICAL BOSSS]

Published September 26, 2016
SOURCE: THE HINDU

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch a PSLV rocket from Sriharikota at 9.12 a.m. on Monday to put eight satellites into two different orbits.

Besides SCATSAT-1, a 371-kg satellite for weather studies, the ISRO would launch two satellites designed by Indian educational institutions (PISAT and PRATHAM), three commercial ones from Algeria (ALSAT-1B, 2B and 1N) and one each for Canada (NLS-19) and the United States (Pathfinder-1).

The ISRO said on Sunday that the countdown for the launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota was progressing smoothly. This would be the first mission of the PSLV to launch its payloads into two different orbits, it said.

Weather forecasting

Soon after the launch, SCATSAT-1 would be positioned at an altitude of 730 km in the polar sun synchronous orbit. The satellite, with a life of five years, would provide weather forecasting services through wind-vector products.

The 10-kg PRATHAM, designed by the IIT-Bombay, would estimate the total electron count with a resolution of 1km x 1km location grid.

The PISAT (5.25 kg), from PES University in Bengaluru, would explore remote sensing applications.

ALSAT-1B is an earth-observation satellite (103 kg), ALSAT-2B is a remote-sensing satellite (117 kg) and ALSAT-1N (7 kg) is a technology demonstrator.

 

[P@nThEr]

It has already been done..Can someone post a video..Thanks

 

[shree835]

ISRO's PSLV SCATSAT-1 launched from Sriharikota



Sriharikota, September 26

PSLV C-35, carrying India's SCATSAT-1 meant for ocean and weather studies and seven other satellites, including from the US and Canada, on Monday lifted off from the spaceport here. Besides SCATSAT-1, the 44.4 metre tall ISRO's workhorse PSLV rocket is carrying two Indian university satellites, three from Algeria and one each from the US and Canada. For the first time in its mission, the PSLV will launch its payloads in two different orbits. There will be two Fourth Stage Engine restarts for this purpose PSLV C-35 took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here, about 110 km from Chennai, at 9.12 am. SCATSAT-1, the primary satellite, is meant for weather forecasting, cyclone detection and tracking. It is a "continuity" mission for the Ku-band scatterometer payload carried by SCATSAT-1, which has enhanced features compared to a similar one carried by Oceansat-2 satellite in 2009, ISRO said. The two academic satellites are PRATHAM, from IIT, Bombay, and PISAT, from BES University, Bengaluru and its consortium. While PRATHAM's objective is to estimate Total Electron Count, PISAT's mission is to design and develop a nanosatellite for remote sensing applications. The foreign satellites onboard the PSLV are ALSAT-1B, ALSAT-2B and ALSAT-1N (all from Algeria) and Pathfinder-1 and NLS-19, from USA and Canada, respectively. The total weight of all the eight satellites onboard PSLV C35 is about 675 kg, ISRO said.
SCATSAT-1 weighs 371 kg.

While SCATSAT-1 will be released first into a 730 km Polar Sunsynchronous Orbit (SSO) after about 17 minutes, the rest will be injected into a lower orbit of 689 km after around two hours.

http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/isro-s-pslv-scatsat-1-launched-from-sriharikota/300988.html

 

[AntiToxic]

PSLV is a piece of cake now......... GSLV is on its way to become most reliable launch vehicle... kudos to ISRO.... pride of India.