| Name(s) of
the event(s) |
INDIA - SPACE PROGRAMME - PSLV - 20 satellites,
including foreign, launched in one go |
| Date(s) of
the event(s) |
June 22, 2016 |
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Description |
- The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, abbreviated as PSLV,
is an expendable (not reuseable) launch
system developed and operated by the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO).
- It was developed to allow India to launch its
Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellites into
Sun-synchronous orbits, a service that was, until the advent
of the PSLV, commercially available only from Russia.
- PSLV can also launch small size satellites
into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO).
- In the year 2015 alone India
successfully launched 17 foreign satellites
belonging to Canada, Indonesia, Singapore, the United
Kingdom and the United States.
- Some notable payloads launched by PSLV include India's
first lunar probe Chandrayaan-1, India's
first interplanetary mission Mangalyaan
(Mars orbiter) and India's first space observatory,
Astrosat.
- Isro scripted history on June 22, 2016
by launching 20 satellites, including those
from the US, Germany, Canada and Indonesia,
from its Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh’s
Sriharikota in one go.
- ISRO used its flagship rocket Polar Satellite
Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C34 -- standing 44.4
metre tall and weighing 320 tonne
-- for the lift-off.
- The whole launch mission was over in around 26
minutes.
- In 2008, the Isro had launched 10 satellites
with the PSLV rocket.
- Till date India has launched 57 foreign
satellites successfully.
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