ISRO's PSLV-C43 puts HysIS and 30 customer satellites into orbit on 29th November, 2018

At exactly 9:57:30 am ( IST ) on Thursday, the 29th November, 2018  the ISRO's reliable workhorse PSLV rocket soared into the skies from Sriharikota's first launch pad carrying the India's first hyperspectral imaging satellite ( HysIS), an advanced earth observation satellite and  30 foreign satellites.  During the 112 minute long mission, the PSLV-C43 first delivered India's primary satellite into the polar sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 630 Km 17 minutes and 19 seconds after the takeoff and then  delivered the other 30 satellites after restarting the fourth stage engines twice.  The last of the 30 satellites was injected into its designated orbit after 1 hour 49 minutes after lift off.

HysIS is an earth observation satellite built around ISRO’s Mini Satellite-2 (IMS-2) bus weighing about 380kg. The mission life of the satellite is five years.

The 30 commercial satellites, including one micro and 29 nano satellites, are from eight countries. Of the total 30 satellites whose combined weight is 261.5 kg, 23 are from the US.

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ISRO's GSLV-Mk3 puts GSAT-29 satellite into orbit on 14th November, 2018

The second orbital test flight of India's heaviest launcher GSLV Mk3 took off on wednesday, 14th November, 2018 hoisting a high throughput communications satellite into orbit to connect the country's remote population and clearing the way for a robotic lunar lander to use the rocket in January.   

The GSLV-Mk3-D2 rocket  which is nearly 43.5 meters high lifted off from the Second Launch Pad at Satish Dhawan Space Center at exactly 11:38 GMT which is 05:08 PM local time at the India's space port.

The payload of GSLV Mk3 D2 is a very advanced high-throughout satellite GSAT-29 which is a multi-beam communications satellite with a lift off mass of 3.4 tonnes.  The payloads of this satellite caters to the communications requirements of users from remote areas of India. 

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Here is  a video of the launch..