ISRO's PSLV to launch 3 Singapore satellites on June 30

 

The countdown of 25 hours leading to the launch begins at 17:00 hours IST on June 29. The mission, named PSLV-C53, will be conducted from the Second Launch Pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota at 6 PM.

"The mission proposes to demonstrate the utilisation of the spent upper stage of the launch vehicle as a stabilised platform for scientific payloads subsequent to the separation of the satellites", ISRO said in a statement.

 

 

 

ISRO will launch DS-EO, NeuSAR, and the Scoob-1 into space. The rocket would inject the 365 kg DS-EO at an altitude of 570 km measured from the equator. ISRO revealed that this satellite carries an Electro-Optic, multi-spectral payload that will provide full-color images for land classification, and serve "Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief needs."

 

The second satellite, the 155 kg NeuSAR, is Singapore's first small commercial satellite carrying a SAR (synthetic aperture radar) payload and is capable of providing images day and night and under all weather conditions. The Scoob-1 satellite, on the other hand, weighs just 2.8 kg and is the first satellite in the Student Satellite Series (S3-I), which was a student training program from the Satellite Research Centre (SaRC) at Singapore's NTU School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

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