DNA Explainer: ISRO to launch 19 satellites today - everything you need to know about the mission
PSLV-C51/Amazonia-1 mission will carry Brazilâs Amazônia-1 as the primary payload, along with 18 other guest satellites including 5 Indian satellites. Watch the live telecast of the launch of #PSLVC51 at 1000 hrs IST tomorrow (Image Source: Twitter/@isro)
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Updated: Feb 28, 2021, 06:59 AM IST
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch 19 satellites today, at 10 am from the Satish Dhavan Space Centre at Sriharikota. This is part of the first dedicated commercial PSLVC51 mission for its commercial company NewSpace India Limited (NSIL)
The PSLV-C51/Amazônia - 1 mission will carry Brazil’s Amazônia-1 as the primary payload, along with 18 other guest satellites, including five Indian satellites.
India, Brazil launch Amazônia-1 on PSLV rocket
February 27, 2021
The Indian Space Research Organization has launched their first mission of 2021 with a flight of their Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) to deliver Brazil’s Amazônia-1 satellite, along with 18 co-passengers, into Sun-synchronous orbit.
Liftoff from First Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, India, occurred Sunday, 28 February at 10:24 IST at the launch site which is 04:54 UTC, or Saturday, 27 February at 23:54 EST.
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Amazônia-1 is the first Earth observation satellite designed, built, tested, and operated completely by Brazil and is the first of three such satellites planned by the National Institute of Space Research (INPE), a Brazil’s space research and exploration company.
‘Student community must become part of ISRO family’
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The student community across the country must become a part of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) family, said its Chairman K. Sivan during a virtual address from Bengaluru on Thursday.
He addressed the students and faculty members of three institutions - Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology in Coimbatore, Jeppiaar Institute of Technology in Chennai and G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering in Nagpur - as he virtually inaugurated their respective satellite ground stations. The satellites developed by the students from these three institutions will be a part of the UNITYSat, which will be launched into orbit on February 28 by ISRO’s PSLV C-51.