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Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will launch six Singapore satellites this evening from its spaceport at Sriharikotta in Andhra Pradesh, some 90 kilometer north of Chennai.
TeLEOS-1 is the primary satellite while the others are two micro-satellites and three Nano-satellites.
Countdown for the PSLV-C29/TeLEOS-1 mission started at 07:00 hours IST today, after the mission readiness review (MRR) committee and launch authorization board (LAB) cleared the countdown.
PSLV-C29 on the First Launch Pad at ISRO’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, on December 15, 2015. “This will surely be very important when you use it for disaster monitoring in the region like Southeast Asia”, Project Director of the Satellite Program at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Professor Goh Cher Hiang said.
Kent Ridge-1 is a 78-kg microsatellite with a medium resolution VNIR Hypersepectral camera (GSD 44m) and short wave infrared (SWIR) Hyperspectral camera (GSD 110m). “We can get the information anywhere, anytime”, Channel News Asia quoted Director of the Satellite Research Centre at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Associate Professor Low Kay Soon as saying.
ISRO satellite launch vehicles have so far launched 51 satellites for other countries. It will be launched into a low Earth orbit for remote sensing applications.
However, the mission will fly on its “core” engine with boosters, which was its standard feature.
In 2015, Isro has launched 14 satellites (3 Indian and 11 foreign) from its rocket port in Sriharikota till date. PSLV launched 13 satellites and geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV) launched one communication satellite, GSAT-6.
Besides Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia have their own satellites in space.
With 6 Singaporean satellites scheduled to be launched next week, ISRO’s tally of satellites launched in 2015 will be 20.
