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The launch of the Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-04), scheduled for September 2021, was delayed due to the pandemic as engineers and scientists were working remotely. However, to make up for the delay, the Indian space agency has planned 19 missions, including a Moon landing, in 2022.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday launched a satellite, INSPIRESat-1, jointly developed by a team of international researchers, including from Taiwan, using a PSLV-52 carrier rocket. This is the first time ISRO launched a satellite developed by a team of international researchers.
INSPIRESat-1, which stands for International Research and Teaching Satellite Project Satellite One, was developed by scientists from universities of the US, Taiwan, India, and Singapore.
The PSLV-C52 rocket also carries Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-04), student satellite INSPIRESat, and a spacecraft dubbed INSAT-2DT, the precursor of a joint India-Bhutan mission in the future.
The universities that took part in the launch are the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Taiwan’s National Central University (NCU), and Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University.
“Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C52 placed two small satellites, a student satellite (INSPIREsat-1) from Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) in association with Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a technology demonstrator satellite (INS-2TD) from ISRO, which is a precursor to India-Bhutan Joint Satellite (INS-2B)”, the space agency said in a statement.
The satellite will provide information on the Sun’s corona and its impact on Earth’s ionosphere.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu congratulated the ISRO scientists on the successful launch.
ISRO Chairman S. Somanath also congratulated the ISRO team for the precision with which the mission was accomplished.
India’s first launch in 6 months set to place radar imaging, baby satellites in orbit
Last year, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) managed only two launches, including the catastrophic failure of the ambitious Geo-Stationary Launch Vehicle, which failed to place a satellite in the desired orbit due to a technical snag in the third cryogenic stage. ISRO has planned 19 missions, including a lunar mission, in 2022.
The countdown for the ISRO’s first of 19 planned missions of 2022, PSLV-C52, with the imaging satellite EOS-04 onboard, has begun on Sunday.
The space agency said that the PSLV rocket would send a new earth observation satellite and two other baby satellites into space on Monday.
“The countdown process of 25 hours and 30 minutes leading to the launch commenced at 04:29 hours today, 13 February 2022,” the statement read.
The 1,710 kg radar imaging satellite EOS-04 is designed to send high-quality images under all weather conditions from a sun-synchronous polar orbit of 529 km.
Designed by students from India, the US, Taiwan, and Singapore, a co-passenger, the small satellite INSPIREsat-1, will study the dynamics of the upper atmosphere.
The EOS-04 launch was scheduled for last September, but it was delayed as the coronavirus pandemic forced engineers and scientists to work remotely.
In 2020, the workflows of the space exploration agency had also been severely impacted due to the pandemic as the Bengaluru-headquartered, wholly state-owned agency completed only three launches: in January, November, and December.
A recent rescheduled plan shows 19 launches in 2022, including a moon landing mission in August, just over three years after its predecessor blasted off.
Source: RIA Novosti
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