ISRO achieved another success

ISRO LAUNCHED NEW SATELLITES

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched its second developmental flight of a Small Satellite Launch Vehicle commonly known as SSLV. The launch was held from its first launch pad at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh named Satish Dhawan space centre. SSLVD-D2, in its 15-minutes flight, will attempt to put three satellites into a 450 km circular orbit. It is a 34 m long, 2 m wide vehicle having a lift-off mass of 120 tonnes including three solid propulsion stages and a velocity terminal module.

SSLV-D2 will attempt to launch three satellites that are ISRO-made EOS-07, Janus-1 made by US-based firm Antaris and Chennai-based space start-up SpaceKidz’s AzaadiSAT-2. SSLV will help in launching half quintals of satellites on a launch-on-demand basis. The target for launching SSLV is to provide low-cost access to space, offer low turn-around time and flexibility in managing multiple satellites, and demand minimal launch infrastructure.

ISRO has designed another satellite named EOS-07 which has been developed and launched by ISRO itself. New experiments include Spectrum Monitoring Payload plus mm-Wave Humidity Sounder. While An 8.7 kg satellite, AzaadiSAT-2, is a combined effort of around 750 girl students across India guided by Space Kidz India, Chennai.

On the 9^th of August, on its first flight, SSLV was not completely successful. For making the room for improvement in its satellite ISRO conducted research on the failure of the SSLVD-1 satellite. The investigation revealed that the lack of velocity, made the launch vehicle release the satellite into an unstable highly elliptical orbit.