In biggest commercial launch, ISRO to put 5 UK satellites in orbit on July 10

[agamdilawari]

CHENNAI: India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) will lift off on its 30th flight from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, on July 10 with the heaviest ever payload (1,440kg) ever for a commercial launch.

PSLV-C28 will launch the UK's three identical optical earth observation satellites (DMC3) built by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), each weighing 447kg.

It will also carry a micro and a nano satellite, both for the UK. Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) will be using the high-end XL version of PSLV for the ninth time.

"India has established itself as an efficient commercial launch pad for foreign satellites. This is the heaviest payload for a commercial launch. A successful PSLV-C28 launch would give a big boost to Isro's commercial launch capabilities," said Isro spokesman Deviprasad Karnik.

Isro's previous 'heavy' commercial payload was SPOT-7, a French satellite weighing 712kg that a PSLV put in orbit on June 30, 2014.

The three DMC3 satellites, each weighing 447kg, will be launched into a 647km sun-synchronous orbit. Riding piggyback on them would be two auxiliary satellites from the UK, CBNT-1, a 9kg technology demonstrator earth observation micro satellite built by SSTL, and De-OrbitSail, a 7kg technology demonstrator nano satellite built by Surrey Space Centre.

"With the overall lift-off mass of the five satellites amounting to about 1440kg, this mission becomes the heaviest commercial mission ever undertaken by Antrix/Isro," the organization said.

Isro said on its website that accommodating the three DMC3 satellites each with a height of about 3 metre within the existing payload fairing of PSLV was a challenge.

To mount these satellites onto the launcher, a circular launcher adaptor called as L-adaptor and a triangular deck called multiple satellite adapter-version 2 (MSA-V2), were designed and realised by Isro for this specific purpose.

Launched into a single Low-Earth Orbit plane and phased with a separation of 120° between them, the DMC3 satellites can image any target on the Earth's surface every day.

Major application areas include surveying the resources on earth and its environment, managing urban infrastructure and monitoring of disasters.

These international customer satellites are being launched as part of the arrangement entered into between DMC International Imaging (DMCii), a wholly owned subsidiary of SSTL, UK; and Antrix Corporation Limited (Antrix), the commercial arm of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), a Government of India Company under Department of Space.

In biggest commercial launch, Isro to put 5 UK satellites in orbit on July 10 - The Times of India

 

[itachiii]

CHENNAI: India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) will lift off on its 30th flight from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, on July 10 with the heaviest ever payload (1,440kg) ever for a commercial launch.

PSLV-C28 will launch the UK's three identical optical earth observation satellites (DMC3) built by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), each weighing 447kg.

It will also carry a micro and a nano satellite, both for the UK. Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) will be using the high-end XL version of PSLV for the ninth time.

"India has established itself as an efficient commercial launch pad for foreign satellites. This is the heaviest payload for a commercial launch. A successful PSLV-C28 launch would give a big boost to Isro's commercial launch capabilities," said Isro spokesman Deviprasad Karnik.

Isro's previous 'heavy' commercial payload was SPOT-7, a French satellite weighing 712kg that a PSLV put in orbit on June 30, 2014.

The three DMC3 satellites, each weighing 447kg, will be launched into a 647km sun-synchronous orbit. Riding piggyback on them would be two auxiliary satellites from the UK, CBNT-1, a 9kg technology demonstrator earth observation micro satellite built by SSTL, and De-OrbitSail, a 7kg technology demonstrator nano satellite built by Surrey Space Centre.

"With the overall lift-off mass of the five satellites amounting to about 1440kg, this mission becomes the heaviest commercial mission ever undertaken by Antrix/Isro," the organization said.

Isro said on its website that accommodating the three DMC3 satellites each with a height of about 3 metre within the existing payload fairing of PSLV was a challenge.

To mount these satellites onto the launcher, a circular launcher adaptor called as L-adaptor and a triangular deck called multiple satellite adapter-version 2 (MSA-V2), were designed and realised by Isro for this specific purpose.

Launched into a single Low-Earth Orbit plane and phased with a separation of 120° between them, the DMC3 satellites can image any target on the Earth's surface every day.

Major application areas include surveying the resources on earth and its environment, managing urban infrastructure and monitoring of disasters.

These international customer satellites are being launched as part of the arrangement entered into between DMC International Imaging (DMCii), a wholly owned subsidiary of SSTL, UK; and Antrix Corporation Limited (Antrix), the commercial arm of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), a Government of India Company under Department of Space.

In biggest commercial launch, Isro to put 5 UK satellites in orbit on July 10 - The Times of India

There are two threads already running on this topic bhai..

 

[Echo_419]

CHENNAI: India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) will lift off on its 30th flight from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, on July 10 with the heaviest ever payload (1,440kg) ever for a commercial launch.

PSLV-C28 will launch the UK's three identical optical earth observation satellites (DMC3) built by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), each weighing 447kg.

It will also carry a micro and a nano satellite, both for the UK. Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) will be using the high-end XL version of PSLV for the ninth time.

"India has established itself as an efficient commercial launch pad for foreign satellites. This is the heaviest payload for a commercial launch. A successful PSLV-C28 launch would give a big boost to Isro's commercial launch capabilities," said Isro spokesman Deviprasad Karnik.

Isro's previous 'heavy' commercial payload was SPOT-7, a French satellite weighing 712kg that a PSLV put in orbit on June 30, 2014.

The three DMC3 satellites, each weighing 447kg, will be launched into a 647km sun-synchronous orbit. Riding piggyback on them would be two auxiliary satellites from the UK, CBNT-1, a 9kg technology demonstrator earth observation micro satellite built by SSTL, and De-OrbitSail, a 7kg technology demonstrator nano satellite built by Surrey Space Centre.

"With the overall lift-off mass of the five satellites amounting to about 1440kg, this mission becomes the heaviest commercial mission ever undertaken by Antrix/Isro," the organization said.

Isro said on its website that accommodating the three DMC3 satellites each with a height of about 3 metre within the existing payload fairing of PSLV was a challenge.

To mount these satellites onto the launcher, a circular launcher adaptor called as L-adaptor and a triangular deck called multiple satellite adapter-version 2 (MSA-V2), were designed and realised by Isro for this specific purpose.

Launched into a single Low-Earth Orbit plane and phased with a separation of 120° between them, the DMC3 satellites can image any target on the Earth's surface every day.

Major application areas include surveying the resources on earth and its environment, managing urban infrastructure and monitoring of disasters.

These international customer satellites are being launched as part of the arrangement entered into between DMC International Imaging (DMCii), a wholly owned subsidiary of SSTL, UK; and Antrix Corporation Limited (Antrix), the commercial arm of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), a Government of India Company under Department of Space.

In biggest commercial launch, Isro to put 5 UK satellites in orbit on July 10 - The Times of India

Merge the thread

 

[Skull and Bones]

Indian space mission is a waste of time and money, lets plant some potatoes instead. @jamahir

 

[Heinz Guderian]

Indian space mission is a waste of time and money, lets plant some potatoes instead. @jamahir

Ofcourse, you need potatoes for inter-planetary or interstellar travel. What a great fuel it is.

 

[21 Dec 2012]

Indian space mission is a waste of time and money, lets plant some potatoes instead. @jamahir

Who will put Indian scientists in jail and shut Space Agency when Indian farmers are suiciding.

 

[Heinz Guderian]

Who will put Indian scientists in jail and shut Space Agency when Indian farmers are suiciding.

You.

 

[Skull and Bones]

Ofcourse, you need potatoes for inter-planetary or interstellar travel. What a great fuel it is.

You can Vodka out of potatoes, as the great Union of Soviet Socialist Republics did. And you can visit any planet after gulping down a bottle of Vodka.

Who will put Indian scientists in jail and shut Space Agency when Indian farmers are suiciding.

They should be employed as forced labors to plant potatoes in the empty fields of Sriharikota.

 

[GURU DUTT]

Who will put Indian scientists in jail and shut Space Agency when Indian farmers are suiciding.

is this thread about indian farmers or their suiciding ?

do your nation sends its psace scfientists to jail over poverty and law and order situation in yourn nation ?

or is that their are rivers of honey and clarrified butter/ghee and milk flowing in your nation

 

[21 Dec 2012]

They should be employed as forced labors to plant potatoes in the empty fields of Sriharikota.

it should, for below is how any citizen ( and by consequence, farmers ) in libyan jamahiriya lived...

1. any person interested in engaging in farming was given free land by the system, along with seeds, tools needed and housing, for free.

This finally makes sense.

 

[livingdead]

how much is the profit...

 

[HariPrasad]

Now it is the time to retire PSLV and replace it with a new light weight vehicle. Kerosene cryogenic engine is the need of the hour in all of our vehicles.

 

[kurup]

Now it is the time to retire PSLV and replace it with a new light weight vehicle. Kerosene cryogenic engine is the need of the hour in all of our vehicles.

The engine using kerosene as fuel is semi-cryogenic .... not cryogenic .

 

[HariPrasad]

The engine using kerosene as fuel is semi-cryogenic .... not cryogenic .

yes.

 

[jamahir]

Indian space mission is a waste of time and money, lets plant some potatoes instead. @jamahir

why not ?? a "vertical farm" design and construction for potato growing is so much more useful than isro putting up yet another satellite.

This finally makes sense.

how ??

Ofcourse, you need potatoes for inter-planetary or interstellar travel. What a great fuel it is.

well, potatoes can be used to produce ethanol... renewable fuel for power generation on long space flight.

so...