Sivan on Sunday congratulate the Brazilian team on the occasion of the launching of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C51 carrying Brazil's Amazonia-1 satellite
The countdown for India's one of the longest rocketing by Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket carrying 19 satellites began on Saturday, said a top official of Indian Space Research Organisation
The launch close on the heels of the February 28 PSLV- C51 mission
The Indian Space Research Organisation on Thursday completed launch rehearsal of the PSLV-C51 mission slated for February 28. India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C51) is scheduled to launch Brazil's Amazonia-1 as primary satellite and 18 co-passenger satellites from first launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR, Sriharkota, about 100 km from Chennai, at 10.24 am on Sunday. The Bengaluru-headquartered space agency had announced on February 5 that there would be 20 co-passenger satellites. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's engraved picture on a co-passenger satellite and sending Bhagavad Gita on-board in electronic format are some of the notable aspects in the launch. Indian Space start-up Pixxel announced two days ago that due to "certain software issues" its first satellite 'Anand' would no longer be part of the payload on board the PSLV-C51 rocket. And on Thursday, ISRO confirmed that its nano satellite INS-2DT will also not be part of the ...
The launch is slated for February 28
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Sivan joined Isro in 1982 and was inducted into PSLV Project
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The launch is tentatively scheduled at 03:41 hours subject to weather conditions
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With India allowing private companies to operate within the premises of Isro, this is expected to create huge opportunities for the country's fledgling aerospace start-ups
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In launch vehicles, Isro expects to fly its first small rocket with a carrying capacity of 500-700 kg in the next few months
The GSAT-20 satellite is scheduled for mid-2020. It is a next-generation high-throughput satellite that would address the country's connectivity issues
The radar imaging satellite weighs about 628 kg along with all nine customer satellites. The countdown for the launch of the PSLV-C48 mission had commenced at 16:40 hours (IST) on Tuesday.
This complex technology involved unfurling and deployment of the 3.6 m antenna which was folded and stowed during launch," ISRO said in an update
The rocket separated RISAT-2BR1 just 16 minutes into its flight, and ejected the first of the nine foreign satellites a minute
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