{"id":310942,"date":"2019-04-01T08:06:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T08:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310942"},"modified":"2019-04-01T08:06:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T08:06:42","slug":"isro-launches-28-foreign-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/isro-launches-28-foreign-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO launches 28 foreign satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-301371 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ISRO-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/ISRO-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/ISRO-538x420.jpg 538w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/ISRO.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>India\u2019s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), in its 47th mission (PSLV-C45) successfully launched EMISAT from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Subsequently,\u00a028 international customer satellites were injected into their designated orbit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The rocket lifted off at 9.27 am from the second launch pad at the end of the 27-hour countdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201c1200 people watched and enjoyed today&#8217;s #PSLVC45 launch from the new viewers&#8217; gallery at Sriharikota. Next time we will have 5000 people watching the launch,\u201d said Chairman, ISRO Dr K Sivan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Weighing about 436 kg, EMISAT is based on ISRO\u2019s Indian Mini Satellite -2 (IMS-2) bus platform. The satellite is intended for electromagnetic spectrum measurement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The PS4 orbital platform is envisaged to provide a microgravity environment for research organisations and academic institutes to perform experiments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In this mission, the PS4 hosts three payloads, namely, Automatic Identification System (AIS) from ISRO, Automatic Packet Repeating System (APRS) from AMSAT (Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation), India and Advanced Retarding Potential Analyzer for Ionospheric Studies (ARIS) from Indian Institute of Space Science and technology (IIST).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The 28-international customer satellites are from four countries, viz. Lithuania, Spain, Switzerland and USA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">All these satellites are being launched under commercial arrangements.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), in its 47th mission (PSLV-C45) successfully launched EMISAT from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota on Monday. Subsequently,\u00a028 international customer satellites were injected into their designated orbit. The rocket lifted off at 9.27 am from the second launch pad at the end of the 27-hour countdown. \u201c1200 people watched and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":301371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[974],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310943,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310942\/revisions\/310943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}