Wednesday, 16 December 2015

ISRO's PSLV-C29 rocket Succesfully launched Six Singapore Satellites in to Orbit

India has successfully put six Singaporean satellites on Wednesday which would help the city-state gather information on disaster monitoring ,urban planning and remote sensing applications. Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) had added another country to client's list and soon after the last of the satellites was put into the orbit chairman A.S.Kiran Kumar has announced the mission of success.

ISRO -PSLV-C29

It was PSLV 32nd flight and the 31st consecutively successful launch with core-alone configuration with out the use of solid-strap-on motors. Satish Dhawan Space Centre director P.Kunhikrishnan called it another remarkable achievement amidst weather conditions.The Satellite can capture images of Singapore once every 100 minutes and tracks threats in the sea and air as well as natural disaster across the region.

The core alone version of  Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) took of from the first launch pad of Satish  Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota,100 km north of Chennai at 6PM on Wednesday.After 18 Minutes Later the rocket ejected the 400 kg TeLEOS-1,The First Singapore Commercial earth observation satellite. into a 555km circular orbit.The other five satellites (two micro satellites and 1 nano satellite) were put in to orbit with in three minutes before the fourth of the rocket re-started to move away from the satellites before.

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