13 American Satellites Ride On ISRO
PSLV along with Indian Military Satellite
Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched PSLV-C47 carrying the Indian military satelite CARTOSAT-3 and 13 other American nano-satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota.
The space agency launched CARTOSAT-3 satellite, ninth in the series, from the second launch pad at the spaceport of Sriharikota, about 120 km from here on November 27 at 09.28 am.
PSLV-C47 on its 49th mission carried CARTOSAT-3 along with 13 commercial nano-satellites from the United States. CARTOSAT-3 is a third-generation agile advanced satellite having high-resolution imaging capability.
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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launches PSLV-C47 carrying Cartosat-3 and 13 nanosatellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota
With an overall mass of 1,625 kg, CARTOSAT-3 would address the increased user’s demands for large scale urban planning, rural resource and infrastructure development, coastal land use and land cover.
PSLV-C47 is the 21st flight of PSLV in the ‘XL’ configuration (with six solid strap-on motors), ISRO said.
The 13 commercial nano-satellites from the United States was carried as part of the commercial arrangement with NewSpace India Ltd (NSIL), Department of Space.
Among the 13 nano-satellites are FLOCK-4P, 12 in numbers, with mission objective of earth observation, and one satellite named MESHBED, whose mission objective is a communication test bed.
ISRO said Wednesday’s launch would be the 74th launch vehicle mission from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. The mission life of CARTOSAT-3 would be for five years. The launch of CARTOSAT-3 and 13 other commercial nano-satellites follows ISRO’s moon mission Chandrayaan-2 on July 22, which failed to manage a soft landing on the moon, and would have been the country’s first had it been successful.
