India Launches New Rocket, Deploys 3 Satellites

NEW DELHI: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully established three satellites through its new rocket on 10th of February, Friday. The successful mission implies India's much awaited arrival to emerge to the multi-million dollar small satellite launch business. 

The satellites were placed right after the launch from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. The Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) took off from India's Satish Dhawan Space Centre, at 9:18am on Friday. After 15.5 minutes, the rocket which is 112 foot tall (34 meters) had established all three spacecraft into their assigned circular orbits. 

The satellites include ISRO's earth observation satellite, EOS-07, Janus-1 and AzaadiSAT-2. The team members were all smiles during the process and exchanged handshakes in the control room. S Vinod, the Mission Director stated that, ISRO made a tremendous comeback in a short span of time, after its drop on 7th of August, 2022. 

AzaadiSAT's prime goal is to estimate several health data including temperature and reset count from 75 student experiments established inside the satellite. The satellite is being designed in a manner that it will play National Cadet Corps songs. ISRO has informed that, the main features of SSLV include low cost, faster turn-around time, flexibility in arranging more than one satellites, and basic launch infrastructure requirements. 

The SSLV can be utilised by individuals in the entire world to establish and launch small satellites, upto 500 meters above Earth. Lt. Gen. AK Bhatt, the Director General of Indian Space Association, stated that, the successful launch of SSLV-D2 is a step built towards offering a thriving ecosystem for the upcoming tiny and micro-satellite commercial business, which has a huge possibility to emerge in the larger market in the coming days. The SSLV is formed in a way to carry objects weighting from 10kgs to 500 kgs to a 500 kilometer planar orbit.

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