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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
04:23:00
Sunday September 9, 2012
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ISRO's third commercial launch (foreign satellite as the main payload).
mRESINS tested avionics for future PSLV launches. (attached to PS4)
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
1 Payload
50 kilograms
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 (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
22nd
Mission
2nd
Mission of 2012
37th
Mission
2nd
Mission of 2012
49th
Orbital launch attempt