NEXT SPACEFLIGHT
NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

ResourceSat-2, X-Sat & YouthSat

Launch Time
Wed Apr 20, 2011 04:42 UTC

Rocket

PSLV-G
ISRO
Status: Retired
Price: $25.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 6,887 kN
Payload to LEO: 3,250 kg
Payload to GTO: 1,410 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 6
Rocket Height: 44.5 m
Fairing Diameter: 3.2 m
Fairing Height: 8.3 m
Details

Mission Details

ResourceSat-2

Resourcesat-2 is a follow-on mission to Resourcesat-1 and the eighteenth Indian Remote Sensing satellite built by ISRO.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 1,206.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
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X-Sat

X-Sat is a microsatellite developed and built by the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in collaboration with Defence Science Organisation (DSO) Singapore.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 106.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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YouthSat

YouthSat is a Russian-Indian scientific-educational artificial satellite developed on the basis of an agreement between the Russian Federal Space Agency and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 92.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Location

First Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

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Stats

2011

16th orbital launch attempt

Indian Space Research Organisation

33rd mission
1st mission of 2011
21st successful mission
1st consecutive successful mission

PSLV

18th mission
1st mission of 2011
16th successful mission
14th consecutive successful mission