RADAR IMAGING SATELLITE IS READY TO FLY......
A 26-hour countdown for the rocket launch from the first launch pad will begin today (Friday). A Sriharikota rocket port is expected to launch 10 satellites rockets at 3 pm on November 7, a senior official told IANS.
The proposed launch will be the first space mission for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in the year 2020.
Significantly, EOS-01 Earth Observation Reset is an advanced series of the satellite itself. It has a synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which can monitor the Earth at any time in any weather.
The biggest feature of this satellite is that the earth can be seen even in the midst of clouds, a clear picture can be drawn. It can take pictures day and night and is useful for monitoring as well as civil activities. This time ISRO will use the DL variant of PSLV rocket, which will have two strap-on booster motors.
This rocket variant was first used in the Orbit Microset R Satellite on 24 January 2019. The PSLV is a four-stage / engine rocket, powered by solid liquid fuel with six booster motors alternately strapped on the first stage to deliver high speeds during the initial flight.
Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Center (VSSC) S.K. Somnath had earlier told IANS that three rockets are being prepared for launch at the rocket port at Sriharikota. These include Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle i.e. Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C49 (PSLV C49), PSLV C50 Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).
The next GSL-12R to fly after PSLV-C49 will be PSLV-C50 with satellite. He said that it will be launched from the second launch pad. Somnath said, "We have set a target for PSLV-C50 at any time in December. After one launch, it takes about 30 days to prepare for the second launch."
Other Indian satellites are also ready for launch, including GSAT, Microsat-2A GSAT-12R. The launch of GSAT-1 satellite was postponed to March 5 this year due to technical reasons a day before the launch. Somnath said, "GSAT-1 satellite will be carried by GSLV rocket."
According to him, GSLV carrying GSAT-1 is expected to fly after PSLV C-50. Somnath also said that ISRO has developed a virtual launch control center to test the rocket system at the rocket port at Sriharikota, away from VSSC at Thiruvananthapuram.
Somnath had earlier told IANS, "The Indian Space Agency has developed a virtual launch control center at VSSC to reduce the number of people going to Sriharikota with the Kovid-19 pandemic outbreak. As a result testing various rocket systems at VSSC being done."
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