ISRO gears up for multi-orbit record
Deccan Chronicle| pathri rajasekhar
Using the PSLV-C35 for the first time, Isro will place the SLATSAT and two satellites of Algeria-AlSat-2 - in different orbits.
ISRO believes that this will give a choice to its national and international customers interested in placing their satellites in different orbits in a single mission.
Nellore: ISRO will be launching satellites in different orbits in its forthcoming mission using the PSLV-C35 for the first time.
The rocket will place the SLATSAT and two satellites of Algeria-AlSat-2 - in different orbits. Two satellites of Indian universities will also be launched in the mission.
As part of the preparations for the multi-orbit launch, scientists restarted the PSLV-C34 after it injected all the satellites into orbit for Wednesday’s mission.
A similar experiment was successfully carried out sometime back with the PSLV-C29. ISRO believes that this will give a choice to its national and international customers interested in placing their satellites in different orbits in a single mission.
In fact, injecting 20 satellites for Wednesday’s mission was a challenge as the primary satellite, Cart-osat, had to be injected in a sun synchronous orbit and the other 19 small satellites had to be ejected, ensuring a safe distances between each other.
