Another Big Day For ISRO: New SSLV-D2 Rocket To Launch Today- All Details

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) efficiently launched three small satellites powered by its SSLV-D2 launch car from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota. The launch car was carrying EOS-07, Janus-1 & AzaadiSAT-2 satellites and aimed to inject them right into a 450 km round orbit.

This was the second developmental flight of its Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV), SSLV-D2 and the launch happened on February 10, 2023 at 09:18 AM IST.

SSLV caters to the launch of as much as 500 kg satellites to Low Earth Orbits on ‘launch-on-demand’ foundation. “It provides low-cost access to Space, offers low turn-around time and flexibility in accommodating multiple satellites, and demands minimal launch infrastructure,” as per an announcement by ISRO.

The SSLV-D2 mission had the goal to take a quarter-hour flight to inject EOS-07, Janus-1 and AzaadiSAT-2 satellites into 450 km round decrease orbit. “It is configured with three solid propulsion stages and a velocity terminal module. It is a 34 m tall, 2m diameter vehicle having a lift-off mass of 120 t,” stated ISRO. The EOS-07 satellite tv for pc weighs 156.3 kg and is made by ISRO.

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“New experiments include mm-Wave Humidity Sounder and Spectrum Monitoring Payload. Janus-1, a 10.2 kg satellite belongs to ANTARIS, USA. A 8.7 kg satellite AzaadiSAT-2 is a combined effort of about 750 girl students across India guided by Space Kidz India, Chennai,” it added.

About 13 minutes into its flight, the SSLV rocket will eject EOS-07 and shortly after that the opposite two satellites Janus-1 and AzaadiSAT-2 could be ejected — all at an altitude of 450 km, stated ISRO.

With the brand new rocket in its portfolio, ISRO may have three rockets — Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and its variants (value about Rs 200 crore), Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-MkII value about Rs 272 crore and LVM3 Rs 434 crore) and SSLV (Development value of three rockets about Rs 56 crore every) and manufacturing value could go down later.

The SSLV’s maiden flight — SSLV-D1- on August 7, 2022 was a failure because the rocket had put the 2 satellites — EOS-01 and AZAADISAT — in a incorrect orbit ensuing of their loss.

According to ISRO, the onboard sensors of SSLV-D1 had been affected resulting from vibrations through the separation of its second stage. While the rocket’s software program was capable of carry out the ejection of the satellites, the ejections had been performed right into a incorrect orbit. The satellites additionally lacked needed velocity to be on a secure orbit and went into oblivion.

(With inputs from IANS)

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