ISRO’s PSLV rocket carrying 7 Singaporean satellites lifts off from Sriharikota

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C56 carrying Singapore’s DS-SAR satellite tv for pc together with six co-passenger satellites has been launched right now by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota.

The DS-SAR satellite tv for pc was developed in partnership with the Government of Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency and ST Engineering. It might be launched right into a near-equatorial orbit (NEO) at 5 levels inclination at a 535 km altitude.

Once deployed and operational, the DS-SAR satellite tv for pc might be used to assist the satellite tv for pc imagery necessities of assorted businesses throughout the authorities of Singapore, as per ISRO.

The PSLV-C56 additionally carries six co-passenger buyer satellites – VELOX-AM, a 23 kg expertise demonstration microsatellite; ARCADE Atmospheric Coupling and Dynamics Explorer (ARCADE), an experimental satellite tv for pc; SCOOB-II , a 3U nanosatellite flying a expertise demonstrator payload; NuLIoN by NuSpace, a sophisticated 3U nanosatellite enabling seamless IoT connectivity in each city and distant areas; Galassia-2, a 3U nanosatellite that might be orbiting at low earth orbit; and ORB-12 STRIDER, satellite tv for pc is developed beneath an International collaboration.

It is the 58th flight of PSLV and seventeenth of PSLV in core alone configuration.