India on Wednesday successfully launched six Singaporean satellites. As the Indian space agency achieved the milestone of its 50th rocket launch.
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle’s Core Alone (PSLV-CA) variant standing 44.4 metres tall and weighing around 227 tonnes took off from the Sriharikota rocket port in Andhra Pradesh, around 80 km from Chennai.
With the successful launch of the six Singaporean satellites, ISRO has put a total of 57 foreign satellites into space.
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle’s Core Alone (PSLV-CA) variant standing 44.4 metres tall and weighing around 227 tonnes took off from the Sriharikota rocket port in Andhra Pradesh, around 80 km from Chennai.
With the successful launch of the six Singaporean satellites, ISRO has put a total of 57 foreign satellites into space.
Out of the six satellites, the 400 kg earth observation satellite called TeLEOS-1 is the main passenger for the PSLV rocket and hence the mission is called TeLEOS mission by ISRO. TeLEOS-1 is Singapore’s first commercial earth observation satellite designed and developed by ST Electronics.
The other five co-passenger satellites are VELOX-C1 (123 kg), VELOX-II (13 kg), Kent Ridge-1 (78kg), Galassia (3.4 kg) and Athenoxat-1.
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