SPOT-6, mRESINS & PROITERES

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

04:23:00

Sunday September 9, 2012

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Launch Notes

ISRO's third commercial launch (foreign satellite as the main payload).

mRESINS

mRESINS tested avionics for future PSLV launches. (attached to PS4)

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

1 Payload

50 kilograms

PROITERES

Wiki

PROITERES (Project of OIT Electric-Rocket-Engine Onboard Small Space Ship) is a satellite launched by ISRO for the Osaka Institute of Technology (OIT). This small boxlike system, with solar panels on the hull, is the testbench for the 4.4 W Pulsed Plasma thrusters operating on the microsatellite platform. The total power budget of the satellite is 15 watts.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

1 Payload

15 kilograms

SPOT-6

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SPOT (French: Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre, "Satellite for observation of Earth") is a commercial high-resolution optical imaging Earth observation satellite system operating from space.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

1 Payload

720 kilograms

Rocket

Active
PSLV-CA

Active Since 2007

Indian Space Research Organisation logo

Agency

ISRO

Price

$21.00 million

Rocket

Height: 44m

Liftoff Thrust

4,847 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 3.2m

Height: 8.3m

Stages

4

Launch Site

First Launch Pad

Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Fastest Turnaround

25 days 5 hours

Stats

PSLV


22nd

Mission

2nd

Mission of 2012

Indian Space Research Organisation


37th

Mission

2nd

Mission of 2012

2012


49th

Orbital launch attempt