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Four Satellites Working Well After India’s Successful PSLV Launch |
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SHAR, Sriharikota, India, Jan. 12, 2007/Satnews Daily/ ― The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has declared that “everything is normal” with the four satellites put into orbit by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C7) on Wednesday.
“All are working well,” ISRO officials said, referring to Cartosat-2 and the Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE), both of ISRO; the LAPAN-TUBSAT jointly built by Indonesia and the Technical University of Berlin; and the Pehuensat-1 of Argentina.
ISRO’s PSLV-C7 lifted off from the first launch pad at SDSC SHAR, at 9.23 am on Wednesday with the ignition of the core first stage and four of the six strap-on motors.
The 680 kg main payload, Cartosat-2, was the first satellite to be injected into orbit at 981.3 sec after lift-off at an altitude of 639 km. ISRO said the four satellites have been placed in a polar orbit at an altitude of 637 km with an inclination of 97.9 deg with respect to the equator.
PSLV is the workhorse launch vehicle of ISRO with nine consecutively successful flights so far. Since its first successful launch in 1994, PSLV has launched seven Indian remote sensing satellites, an amateur radio satellite, HAMSAT, and four small satellites for foreign customers into 550-800 km high polar SSOs.
On Thursday, ISRO said Cartosat-2’s camera has been switched on and us undergoing tests. It said, the panchromatic camera (PAN) was switched on at 10:05 am through a series of commands issued from the Spacecraft Control Centre of ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) at Bangalore.
ISRO has reported that analysis of the first imagery received at National Remote Sensing Agency's Data Reception Station at Shadnagar, near Hyderabad, confirms excellent performance of the camera.
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