Next month, Isro will score a century with its missions when the four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) lifts off at Sriharikota with two foreign satellites.
Isro chief spokesperson Dev Prasad Karnik said the flight will mark the 100th mission since the launch of India’s first satellite, Aryabhatta, on April 19,1975, then USSR. The 100th mission will carry the 720kg French Spot satellite and a 15kg Japanese Protiers satellite. Spot is ahigh resolution optical imaging earth observaion satellite. The launch is slated for the second week of September.
Karnik said that since the launch of Aryabhatta, Isro has launched 62 satellites and 37 rockets. After Sriharikota, scene will shift to Kourou in French Guyana when Isro’s 3,400kg G-Sat 10 communication satellite will be launched.
Isro chief spokesperson Dev Prasad Karnik said the flight will mark the 100th mission since the launch of India’s first satellite, Aryabhatta, on April 19,1975, then USSR. The 100th mission will carry the 720kg French Spot satellite and a 15kg Japanese Protiers satellite. Spot is ahigh resolution optical imaging earth observaion satellite. The launch is slated for the second week of September.
Karnik said that since the launch of Aryabhatta, Isro has launched 62 satellites and 37 rockets. After Sriharikota, scene will shift to Kourou in French Guyana when Isro’s 3,400kg G-Sat 10 communication satellite will be launched.
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