NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Oceansat-2 & Rideshares

Launch Time
Wed Sep 23, 2009 06:21 UTC

Rubin 9.1 and 9.2 intentionally remained attached to the fourth stage. SwissCube-1 was the first Swiss satellite, and ITUpSAT1 was the first satellite to be constructed in Turkey.

Rocket

PSLV-CA
ISRO
Status: Active
Price: $21.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 4,847 kN
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 44.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 3.2 m
Fairing Height: 8.3 m

Mission Details

Oceansat-2

Oceansat-2 is an Indian satellite designed to provide service continuity for operational users of the Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) instrument on Oceansat-1.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 960.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Rubin 9.1 & Rubin 9.2

Rubin 9.1 and Rubin 9.2 are German experimental satellites (2 x 8kg - attached to PS4)

Payloads: 2
Total Mass: 16.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

SwissCube-1

SwissCube-1 is a Swiss satellite operated by Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The spacecraft is a single-unit CubeSat, which was designed to conduct research into nightglow within the Earth's atmosphere and to develop technology for future spacecraft.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 1.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

BeeSat

Small communication satellite.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 1.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

UWE-2

The University Würzburg's Experimental satellite 2 (UWE-2) is a CubeSat of a length of 10 cm and a mass of 1 kg developed by the University of Würzburg.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 1.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

ITUpSAT1

ITUpSAT1, short for Istanbul Technical University picoSatellite-1) is a single CubeSat built by the Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Istanbul Technical University.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 1.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Location

First Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Stats

2009

54th orbital launch attempt

Indian Space Research Organisation

29th mission
2nd mission of 2009
19th successful mission
5th consecutive successful mission

PSLV

16th mission
2nd mission of 2009
14th successful mission
12th consecutive successful mission