India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, in its thirty first
flight (PSLV-C30), is scheduled to launch 1513 kg Astrosat into a 650 km orbit
of 6 deg inclination to the equator. Along with Astrosat, six satellites from
international customers viz., 76 kg LAPAN-A2 of Indonesia, 14 kg
NLS-14 (Ev9) of Canada and four identical LEMUR satellites of USA together
weighing about 28 kg – will be launched in this PSLV flight.
PSLV-C30 will be launched from First Launch Pad (FLP) of Satish
Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota. PSLV-C30 is the tenth
flight of PSLV in its 'XL' Configuration. The earlier nine flights of PSLV-XL
were PSLV-C11/Chandrayaan-1, PSLV-C17/GSAT-12, PSLV-C19/RISAT-1,
PSLV-C22/IRNSS-1A, PSLV-C25/Mars Orbiter Spacecraft, PSLV-C24/IRNSS-1B and
PSLV-C26/IRNSS-1C, PSLV-C27/IRNSS-1D, PSLV-C28/DMC3 missions. The total payload
weight of PSLV-C30 is 1631 kg.
International customer satellites of PSLV-C30
LAPAN-A2 is a Microsatellite
from National Institute of Aeronautics and Space-LAPAN, Indonesia. LAPAN-A2 is
meant for providing maritime surveillance using Automatic Identification System
(AIS), supporting Indonesian radio amateur communities for disaster mitigation
and carrying out Earth surveillance using video and digital camera.
NLS-14 (Ev9), a Nanosatellite
from Space Flight Laboratory, University of Toronto Institute for Advanced
Studies (SFL, UTIAS), Canada. It is a maritime monitoring Nanosatellite using
the next generation Automatic Identification System (AIS).
Four LEMUR nano satellites from Spire Global,
Inc. (San Francisco, CA), USA, are non-visual remote sensing satellites,
focusing primarily on global maritime intelligence through vessel tracking via
the Automatic Identification System (AIS), and high fidelity weather
forecasting using GPS Radio Occultation technology.
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