Ten pack launch for India's polar rocket on Monday
Eyeing a record, an Indian Polar rocket is all set to launch 10 satellites including the country's latest remote sensing satellite in one go on Monday.
By PTI |
CHENNAI: Eyeing a record, an Indian Polar rocket is all set to launch 10 satellites including the country's latest remote sensing satellite in one go on Monday and the space mission will be completed within 16 minutes of blastoff from Sriharikota.
The ten pack launch of the Indian Space Research Organistion(ISRO) will see the 230-tonne Polar Satellite launch Vehicle(PSLV-C9) carry the heaviest luggage--824 kgs--and put into orbit an Indian Mini Satellite and eight foreign nano satellites besides the Cartosat-2A remote sensing satellite.
The countdown for the launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, about 100 km from here, scheduled at 9.23 AM is progressing satisfactorily, space officials said on Sunday.
The Rs 700 million PSLV-C9 will be second to a Russian rocket that delivered 16 in the outer space in April last year. But the Russian launch vehicle carried a lesser payload of only around 300 kg.
This will be the thirteenth flight of PSLV and the third flight with 'core-alone' configuration, which means the main/core PSLV rocket will be without the hugging six strap-on booster motors that powers the first stage.
CARTOSAT-2A weighing about 690 kg carries a state-of-the-art Panchromatic camera (PAN) that can record high clarity images covering a swathe of 9.6 kms. It will provide data that could be used for urban and rural infrastructure management and land information systems.
The ten pack launch of the Indian Space Research Organistion(ISRO) will see the 230-tonne Polar Satellite launch Vehicle(PSLV-C9) carry the heaviest luggage--824 kgs--and put into orbit an Indian Mini Satellite and eight foreign nano satellites besides the Cartosat-2A remote sensing satellite.
The countdown for the launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, about 100 km from here, scheduled at 9.23 AM is progressing satisfactorily, space officials said on Sunday.
The Rs 700 million PSLV-C9 will be second to a Russian rocket that delivered 16 in the outer space in April last year. But the Russian launch vehicle carried a lesser payload of only around 300 kg.
This will be the thirteenth flight of PSLV and the third flight with 'core-alone' configuration, which means the main/core PSLV rocket will be without the hugging six strap-on booster motors that powers the first stage.
CARTOSAT-2A weighing about 690 kg carries a state-of-the-art Panchromatic camera (PAN) that can record high clarity images covering a swathe of 9.6 kms. It will provide data that could be used for urban and rural infrastructure management and land information systems.
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