This February 25 is going to play a crucial role for Indian Space mission when its space agency is all set to put seven foreign satellites into orbit including an Indo-French collaborative satellite SARAL.
According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) sources, The rocket will blast off from the Sriharikota rocket launch centre (around 80 km from here) on 25th February, carrying seven satellites, totally weighing around 700 kg.
The rocket is expected to escape the earth's gravitational force at around 6 p.m. and inject the satellites in sun synchronous orbit (SSO) at around 785 km.
There is another milestone with the mission, which is about SARAL. Speaking about SARAL (Satellite for ARGOS and ALTIKA), Indian officials said the French gave the two payloads - ARGOS and ALTIKA) while ISRO provided satellite bus (satellite frame) and built the satellite.
Sources says that the data generated by SARAL will be shared by France and India whereas the other five satellites would be launched on commercial basis.
The SARAL will carry an Altimeter (ALTIKA) for studying the sea surface heights and ARGOS payload, which is a satellite based data collection platform.
The PSLV-C20 will sling into orbit two Canadian satellite NEOSSat (Near Earth Object Space Surveillance Satellite), the world's first space telescope designed by Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Sapphire satellite built by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA).
The other four satellites to be carried by PSLV-C20 are BRITE and UniBRITE (both Austria), STRAND (Britain) and AAUSAT (Denmark).
The mission is going to play crucial role for the Indian space mission as it will provide much avenue to earn revenue.
(With inputs from IANS)
|
|
Comments:
