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ISRO’s PSLV rocket launches nine
satellites in final mission of 2022
ISRO launched a one-ton Earth observation enhanced payload specifications as well as
satellite and eight nanosatellites to sun- application areas,” according to ISRO’s
synchronous polar orbit Nov. 26 aboard the pre-launch document of the mission. The
nation’s workhorse Polar Satellite Launch spacecraft has four payloads: an ocean
Vehicle (PSLV) rocket. The rocket lifted off color monitor (OCM-3); sea surface
from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at temperature monitor (SSTM); Ku-band
1:26 a.m. Eastern. The launch was live- Scatterometer (SCAT-3); and ARGOS, a
streamed on YouTube, which showed the French payload meant to reinforce the
44-meter rocket blasting off with bright flame existing fleet of Indo-French weather
jetting from its first-stage booster and satellites. The secondary payloads include
soaring into the sky. The primary payload, ISRO nano-satellite-2 for Bhutan (INS-2B),
EOS-06, separated from the rocket’s upper which will have two payloads, namely
stage about 17 minutes after liftoff at an NanoMx and APRS-Digipeater. NanoMx is a
altitude of 742 kilometers. The other multispectral optical imaging payload. The
satellites were deployed between 114 and Nov. 26 launch was ISRO’s fifth and final
125 minutes after liftoff. ISRO Chairman S. mission for 2022. The first mission
Somnath declared the mission a success in in February put three satellites into low
a speech made about two hours after Earth orbit aboard a PSLV rocket, followed
launch. “I am really happy to announce the by the launch of three satellites
successful accomplishment of the PSLV- in June aboard a PSLV, the failed maiden
C54/EOS-06 mission,” the chairman said. flight of Small Satellite Launch Vehicle
“We also observed that the performance of (SSLV) in August, and the successful
the rocket in this mission in all its stages launch of 36 OneWeb satellites in October
and functions were exceedingly good.” The aboard a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch
EOS-06 is the third-generation Earth Vehicle (GSLV) Mark 3 rocket. It was the
observation satellite in India’s Oceansat 56th flight of PSLV since it went operational
series, designed to provide “continuity in 1993, according to ISRO.
services of Oceansat-2 spacecraft with
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