PSLV C28 launch lift off normal: ISRO | Indiablooms – First Portal on Digital

CHENNAI: The stage is all set for the launch of PSLV-C28 rocket that would place in orbit five satellites from Great Britain at 2158 hrs tomorrow night. All of the latest launch’s payload will be made up of five satellites from the two entities.

Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO ‘s PSLV C 28 carrying five satellites from the United Kingdom lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota on July 10.

5 kg satellite called STRaND-1 – which went on to become the world’s first smartphone in space.

The mission life of DMC3 satellites will be 7 years. According to the information published on their website, it is an “optical Earth Observation technology demonstration micro satellite built by SSTL”.

Three of the satellites to be launched on Friday – DMC3-1, DMC3-2 and DMC3-3 – are mini-satellites designed for Earth observations. These satellites are also expected to carry miniature cameras with 3.3-foot-resolution, the highest-resolution cameras that SSTL has ever built for their satellites.

ISRO officers has informed IANS that the check mannequin reusable launch auto can be mounted on a strap-on strong booster of PSLV rocket with 9-tonne gasoline.

The whole mission was completed just over 19 minutes into the flight as planned.

The seven kg De-orbitSail from Surrey Space Centre, is an experimental nano-satellite for demonstration of large thin membrane sail and drag deorbiting using this sail.

According to Indian Express, all the satellites will be launched into a single Low-Earth Orbit plane. The satellites are capable of managing urban infrastructure and monitoring of disasters. Thus, a circular L-adaptor and a triangular Multiple Satellite Adapter-Version 2 (MSA-V2) were newly designed and realised by ISRO for this specific goal.

ISRO launched the highest number of foreign satellites in April 2008 when the PSLV-C9 mission blasted off eight satellites from various countries including Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany. It was launched on June 30, 2014.

The GSLV rocket’s first stage/engine has been assembled and the actions referring to that rocket meeting are progressing easily.

He said the next launch will be the GSAT6 communication satellite using heavier rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) next month.

The smallest of the five PSLV-C28 passengers is the De-orbitSail nanosatellite, weighing just 15 lbs.