Today India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C15) successfully launches CARTOSAT - 2B Satellite from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota. The launch of PSLV - C15 was the sixteenth consecutive successful flight of PSLV. It had put the payload in 630 km polar Sun Synchronus Orbit(SSO).
Moreover, PSLV - C15 in its flight, alongwith CARTOSAT - 2B, carried four auxiliary satellites namely STUDSAT a pico-satellite weighing less than 1 kg, built jointly by students from a consortium of seven engineering colleges form Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, two nano satellites NLS 6.1 and NLS 6.2 from University of Toronto, Canada and ALSAT-2A, a micro-satellite from Algerian Space Agency.
CARTOSAT 2 - B
It is a 694 kg advanced Remote Sensing Sattelite built by ISRO. It is mainly intended to augment remote sensing data services to the users of multiple spot scene imagery with 0.8 metre resolution 9.6 km swath in the panchromatic band.
It carries a sate of art Panchromatic Camera(PAN) and Solid State Recorder with a capacity of 64 Giga Bits to store the images taken by its camera. Data from the satellite will find applications in village level /cadastral level resource assessment mapping , urban and rural infrastructure development and management, transportation sysytem planning, cartographic maps, micro-watershed development plans and monitoring them.
Furthermore, imagery can be used for preparation of Forest Cover maps, tree volume, crop inventory, town and rural settlement planning and mapping, canal alignment, rural connectivity assesment, land use planning of coastal areas, monitoring coral and mangrove areas and the monitoring mining activities.
ALSAT-2A
It is a 116 kg Remote sensing satellite of Algerian Space Agency.
NLS- 6.1
It is AISAT-1 weighing 6.5 kg satellite built by Space Flight Lab of University of Toronto, Canada.
NLS- 6.2
It is TISAT-1 weighing 1 kg satellite built by University of Applied Sciences of Switzerland.
STUDSAT
Pico-satellite weighing less than 1 kg is built jointly by students from a consortium of seven engineering colleges from Andhra Prades and Karnataka.
Well done ISRO. I salute you. You really made us proud once again. You are one of the most efficient government organization India has.
Congratulations ISRO.
Best wishes for the next indigenous cryogenic tryout.
Good job done, We all will be glad to see GSLV soon.
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Proud of you ISRO team and heartiest congratulations to STUDSAT developers from Andhra and Karnataka.
Well done ISRO, we are proud of you. We are eagerly waiting for GSLV launch.