India successfully launches weather satellite, three others

[DK Run]

PSLV-C18 carrying weather satellite launched

SRIHARIKOTA (ANDHRA PRADESH): PSLV-C18, the Indian rocket carrying the Indo-French tropical weather satellite Megha-Tropiques and three other smaller satellites was launched on Wednesday. It is expected to launch its 50th satellite since 1993.

Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle - C18 (PSLV-C18) -- blasted off from Sriharikota spaceport, around 80km from Chennai.

It is lugging a 1,000-kg Megha Tropiques and three smaller satellites together weighing 42.6 kg.

Megha Tropiques is an Indo-French collaboration to study climatic and atmospheric changes in tropical regions and makes India the second nation in the world to launch such a space mission.

The satellite will look down at the earth from around 800 km low earth orbit and is expected to enable the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to forecast weather in a more precise manner.

The three nano satellites that will be ferried by the PSLV are the 10.9-kg SRMSAT built by the students of SRM University near Chennai, the three-kg remote sensing satellite Jugnu from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur and the 28.7-kg VesselSat from Luxembourg to locate

 

[oct605032048]

1 ton + 42.6 kg.

 

[DK Run]

1 ton + 42.6 kg.

University built students designed nano sat

 

[oct605032048]

University built students designed nano sat

Of course. Every gram of payload is precious so student sat can't be heavy.

 

[LiberalAtheist]

PSLV is the true workhorse of ISRO now we need to focus on improving the GSLV btw any info on GSLV?

 

[RoYaL~GuJJaR]

PSLV is the true workhorse of ISRO now we need to focus on improving the GSLV btw any info on GSLV?

True mate!!

We need to master the GSLV!!

 

[DK Run]

True mate!!

We need to master the GSLV!!

GSLV has already been mastered with MK1 CUS. We have problem only with MK-2 version of Cryogenic upper stage.

Hopefully it will be fine tuned in the next launch.

 

[RoYaL~GuJJaR]

GSLV has already been mastered with MK1 CUS. We have problem only with MK-2 version of Cryogenic upper stage.

Hopefully it will be fine tuned in the next launch.

Thanks mate

When will be the next launch of GSLV ?

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Btw.....Arey yaar Hume koi Congratulate karne nahi ayega ??

Saap Sung gya kya sab koo

LOL

 

[T90TankGuy]

isro is the one department of the gov who never disappoints . good news

 

[trident2010]

PSLV-C18 puts four satellites in orbit

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C18) demonstrated its reliability once again when it put successfully four satellites in orbit on Wednesday. The satellites were: Megha-Tropiques, an Indo-French satellite to study the weather and climate in the tropical region of the world; SRMSat built by the students of SRM university, near Chennai; Jugnu, built by the students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur; and Vesselsat from Luxembourg. This was the 19th consecutively successful mission of the PSLV out of 20 launches from 1993.

It was a flawless a mission with the PSLV-C18 rising from the first launch pad at the spaceport at Sriharikota at the scheduled time of 11 a.m. As the vehicle sped up from the launch pad, it disappeared briefly into the clouds to knife out into the sky again. Applause broke out in the Mission Control Centre as the four stages of the vehicle ignited on time and fell into the Bay of Bengal. At the end of more than 21 minutes of flight, the PSLV-C18 first catapulted the 1,000 kg Megha-Tropiques satellite into a precise orbit at an altitude of 867 km. The satellite was slung into orbit at a velocity of more than 26,000 km an hour. A few seconds later, SRMSat flew out, followed by VesselSat and Jugnu.

Consistency

K. Radhakrishnan, chairman, Indian Space Research Organistion (ISRO) called it “a grand success". P.S. Veeraraghavan, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, said the latest success demonstrated the consistency of the PSLV rocket. S. Ramakrishnan, Director, Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, ISRO, described the flight as “one more magnificent mission from the PSLV.”

Dr. G. Raju, project Director, Megha-Tropiques, said the satellite’s solar-panels had deployed and the satellite was in good health. The satellite would have a life-span of five years. T.K. Alex, Director, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, said that even though SRMSat and Jugnu were small satellites, they were complex spacecraft built by the students.

Predicting the monsoon

Megha-Tropiques, with four scientific instruments, will help in predicting the Indian monsoons, floods, cyclones and droughts, besides estimating the weather in the short-term and climate in the long-term in the tropical countries of the world. The 11-kg SRMSat will address the problem of global-warming and the pollution levels in the atmosphere by monitoring the carbon-dioxide present there. The 3-kg Jugnu isa remote-sensing satellite that will minor vegetation and water-bodies. VesselSat will help in locating ships cruising in the sea-lanes of the world.



The Hindu : News / National : PSLV-C18 puts four satellites in orbit

 

[DK Run]

Thanks mate

When will be the next launch of GSLV ?

Indigenous crogenic engine on GSLV on second quarter 2012.

 

[Quick MIK]

Congrats ISRO.

 

[illuminatidinesh]

Hope the GSLV takes the same record of the PSLV.

 

[OrionHunter]

Cheers!

 

[manojb]

Thank you France for showing interest in studying Monsoon. It would have taken India a while to attain the technology. This will help farmers/fishermen of South Asia. Congrats to all teams involved.

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