SpaceX Falcon 9 Boosts Record 143 Satellites Into Orbit on Rideshare Mission
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket boosted a record 143 small satellites into a polar orbit on Sunday in the company s first dedicated rideshare mission, a response to the growing demand for low-cost access to space by smaller, non-traditional companies and institutions.
The Transporter 1 mission also served as a reminder of the ongoing debate over what role the government should play regulating the increasingly crowded domain of low-Earth orbit where collisions would create high-speed shrapnel threatening other spacecraft. No universally accepted rules of the road exist for the safety of space operations, much less a regulatory regime for active risk management and collision avoidance, NASA s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel wrote in its recently released 2020 annual report.
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Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is an indigenous, third generation launch vehicle developed by ISRO. It comes in the category of medium-lift launchers with a reach up to the Geo Synchronous Transfer Orbit, Lower Earth Orbit, and Polar Sun Synchronous Orbit. PSLV operations are controlled from the Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota. PSLV is a four-stage rocket that combines solid and liquid propellants. The first stage at the very bottom is solid fuelled having six strap-on solid rocket boosters wrapped around it. The second stage is liquid-fuelled whereas the third stage has a solid fuelled rocket motor. At the fourth stage, the launcher uses a liquid propellant for a boost in outer space.
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Ikigai Law advised Pixxel Space, an Indian space-tech startup, in
contract negotiations for its forthcoming satellite launches aboard
a
SpaceX Falcon-9 and a
Russian Soyuz space craft.
Pixxel is building a constellation of earth imaging satellites
to provide real-time remote sensing data across the world. It is
planning to launch 30 satellites by June 2023. Its satellites aim
to provide highly accurate data-based insights in agriculture,
climate change and forestry. The company has signed an agreement
with Silicon Valley-based in-space satellite transportation
company Momentus Inc, to