Indian Space Research Organization ( ISRO ) launched PSLV Mission

in Government, India November 8, 2020 0 411 Views

On Saturday (Nov 7), the Indian Space Research Organization ( ISRO ) has successfully launched its mission of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The carrier PSLV C49 will deliver 10 satellites into space, of which EOS-01 is the main satellite.

EOS-01 is an earth observation satellite designed to provide agriculture, forestry and disaster management support. A total of 10 satellites, EOS-01 is the only from India and primary satellite of the mission, and the other nine are from foreign countries.

The launch took place from the Satish Dhawan Space Center (SDSC) in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. The ISRO event was originally scheduled to be held at 3:02 pm, but it was delayed by 10 minutes due to bad weather. Soon after lift-off, EOS-01 and all nine other customer satellites were successfully separated and injected into the Earth’s orbit.

The launch has won praise and good wishes from many people including India Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

I congratulate @ISRO and India’s space industry for the successful launch of PSLV-C49/EOS-01 Mission today. In the time of COVID-19, our scientists overcame many constraints to meet the deadline.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) November 7, 2020

Nine satellites, including four each from the US and Luxembourg and one from Lithuania, have also been launched in the Mission.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) November 7, 2020

This is the first mission launched by the Indian Space Research Organization ( ISRO ) this year, amid the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Given that SDSC in Sriharikota has imposed strict preventive measures for the coronavirus pandemic, gatherings of the media at the space center was not allowed during the launch of EOS-01. The launch viewing gallery was also kept closed. However, the live broadcast of the launch was available on ISRO official website (www.isro.gov.in), Youtube, Facebook and Twitter channels.

Know more about the ISRO’s latest space mission:

The launch represented the 51st mission of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. This is also the 76th mission launch of the Satish Dhawan Space Center.
From the nine international customer satellites are one from Lithuania, four from Luxembourg and other four from the United States.
Under a commercial agreement with the New Space India Limited (NSIL), the nine international satellites, entitled the ‘customer’ satellites, have been launched. The New Space India Limited is the commercial arm of the ISRO and is part of the Department of Space.
This is the first launch of the ISRO in nearly a year and the first since the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown took effect in late March. Last year, the space agency launched RSAT2-BR1 on December 11, which is an earth observation satellite similar to EOS-01.