India’s Mission PSLV-C14 was successfully accomplished today. With this, the launch vehicle PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) propelled into space the 958 Kg Oceansat-2 and six nano-satellites.
As per the plan, the launch vehicle first flung out Oceansat-2 at an altitude of 720 km above the earth in a sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), followed by the four nano satellites – also called Cubesats, each weighing one kg. The remaining two, each weighing eight kg, were attached to the rocket’s fourth stage.
All about PSLV :
PSLV is a four-stage launch vehicle employing both solid and liquid propulsion stages. PSLV is the trusted workhorse launch Vehicle of ISRO. During Sep. 1993 – Apr. 2009 period, PSLV had fifteen launches of which fourteen were consecutively successful.
PSLV has repeatedly proved its reliability and versatility by launching 39 spacecrafts (17 Indian and 22 for international customers) into a variety of orbits so far. It may be recalled that during its previous mission, PSLV had successfully launched RISAT-2 and ANUSAT spacecrafts on April 20, 2009.
All about Oceansat-2:
It carries 3 payloads.
- Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM)
- Ku-band Pencil Beam scatterometer (SCAT) developed by ISRO
- Radio Occultation Sounder for Atmosphere (ROSA) developed by the Italian Space Agency.
Oceansat-2 is envisaged to provide continuity of operational services of Oceansat-1(IRS-P4) with enhanced application potential.
Oceansat-2 would also help in securing the coastal areas thereby strengthening our security needs.
All about six nano-satellites:
Four CUBESATs and Two RUBIN are the foreign satellites launched by PSLV-C14 along with the main satellite – Oceansat-2.
CUBESATs
The four CUBESATs are educational satellites from European universities, each weighing around one kg. and developed to perform technology demonstration in space.
RUBIN-9
RUBIN-9 consists of two Spacecrafts Rubin-9.1 and Rubin-9.2 weighing 8kg each and will primarily be used for the Automatic Identification System (AIS) for Maritime applications.
Congratulations to all the scientists and people involved in the successful mission.
For more details check ISRO website
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