India’s PSLV To Carry 3 Foreign Satellites To Orbit On June 30

Bhubaneswar: After successful launch of three satellites on Monday, India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket will carry three foreign satellites to put those in orbit on June 30.

The PSLV-C53 rocket is likely to blast off from the second launch pad at the Sriharikota rocket port at 6 pm on June 30. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will use the rocket’s fourth and final stage as an orbital platform for six payloads, including two from Indian space start-ups, Digantara and Dhruva Aerospace.

The PSLV will carry three satellites including  365-kg DS-EO and 155 kg NeuSAR belonging to Singapore and built by Starec Initiative of South Korea. The third satellite is 2.8-kg Scoob-1 of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, according to a news agency report.

This will be the second dedicated commercial mission of NewSpace India Ltd. The four stage, 44.4 m tall PSLV-C53 has a lift-off mass of about 228 ton.

On Monday, the PSLV successfully blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh at 5.59 am, carrying earth observation satellite EOS-04 along with two smaller satellites INSPIREsat-1 and INS-2TD.

PSLV-C52 injected EOS-04 into an intended sun-synchronous polar orbit of 529 km altitude at 0617am IST. This was ISRO’s first launch of the year.

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