ISRO launches PSLV-C54 from Sathish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota

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PSLV-C54 was launched from Sathish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota a short while ago. The payloads including Oceansat and eight other nanosatellites will be launched in the specified time in two different sun-synchronous orbits in two hours time.

The parameters of the launch vehicle functioned perfectly on time with four stages of separation. Scientists and onlookers at ISRO are anxious to witness the period of setting the payloads in different orbits.

The payloads include Ocean monitor, sea surface monitor, Ku Band Scatterometer, and ARGOS – a french payload that will reinforce the existing fleet of Indo-French satellites working on weather surveillance that are already in orbit.

The one thousand 117 kg payloads include Ocean monitor, sea surface monitor, Ku Band Scatterometer, and ARGOS – a french payload. ARGOS will reinforce the existing fleet of Indo-French satellites working on weather surveillance that are already in orbit thus enhancing the contributions related to the objectives of the Paris Agreement.

The Anand nanosatellite is a technology demonstrator for commercial applications of miniaturised earth observation camera for earth observation using a microsatellite in low earth orbit.

The Thybolt satellites are 0.5U CubeSat technology demonstrators for Dhruva Space’s modular Cubesat bus.
It provides a Satellite Platform and is envisioned to enable rapid development for experimentation by the amateur community.

This mission provides a message store-and-forward capability to the users. It demonstrates store-and-forward (S&F) operations and performs scheduled and unscheduled uplink of S&F data from amateur operators, stores the data onboard and transmits the same data to distributed amateur radio compatible ground station/s in India and publishes wherever required as per the Experiment Outline for Amateurs.

Amateur operators can utilize this facility to evaluate their uplink equipment by sending S&F messages to the satellite and validate a successful downlink of sent messages from the website displaying all the S&F messages upon a ground station pass.

It has a communication payload to enable rapid technology demonstration and constellation development for multiple users. Astrocast, a 3u spacecraft is a technology demonstrator for the Internet of Things. It enables asset tracking and monitoring anywhere, regardless of blind spots without cellular coverage.