Chennai: India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle in its 51st mission (PSLV-C49) launched EOS-01 as primary satellite along with nine international customer satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota, today.
EOS-01 is an earth observation satellite intended for applications in agriculture, forestry and disaster management support. The nine international customer satellites are being launched under a commercial agreement with the newly formed entity NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), Department of Space.
This would be ISRO’s first launch mission in 2020 after its launch activities were crippled due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown.
EOS-01 is an earth observation satellite intended for applications in agriculture, forestry and disaster management support.
The customer satellites are being launched under commercial agreement with NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), Department of Space.
PSLV-C49 would be followd by PSLV-C50 with a communication satellite GSAT-12R next month, besides the much-awaited first technology demonstrator–the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV).
For the SSLV launch, the first launch pad would be reconfigured after the PSLV-C49 mission to house the shorter SSLV which would be a three stage vehicle filled with soild prospellants.