PSLV-C35
India’s Polar
Satellite Launch Vehicle, in its thirty-seventh flight (PSLV-C35), launches the
371 kg SCATSAT-1 for weather related studies and seven co-passenger
satellites into polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO).
Co-passenger satellites are ALSAT-1B, ALSAT-2B,
and ALSAT-1N from Algeria these are for earth observation (i.e. for agriculture
and disaster monitoring), NLS-19 from Canada and Pathfinder-1 from USA as well
as two satellites PRATHAM from IIT Bombay and PISAT from PES University,
Bengaluru.
The PISAT satellite weighs 5 kg and carries an
image camera that can capture pictures with 80 meter resolution.
Pratham is
an Indian ionospheric research satellite which will be operated by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay as part of the Initiative.
Its primary mission is to count electrons in the Earth's ionosphere
SCATSAT-1 was placed
into a 720 km Polar SSO whereas; the two Universities / Academic Institute
Satellites and the five foreign satellites will be placed into a 670 km polar
orbit. This is the first mission of PSLV in which payloads were launched into
two different orbits.
PSLV-C35 was launched
from the First Launch Pad (FLP) of Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR,
Sriharikota on Monday morning at 9:12 hrs (IST) on September 26, 2016.
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