NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

SPOT-7 & Rideshares

Launch Time
Mon Jun 30, 2014 04:22 UTC

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

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

SPOT-7

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.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 714.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

CanX-4

CanX-4 & 5 are a two satellite pair that will be utilized to demonstrate formation flying using nanosatellite scale technology.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 15.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

CanX-5

CanX-4 & 5 are a two satellite pair that will be utilized to demonstrate formation flying using nanosatellite scale technology.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 15.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

AISAT

AISat 1 is an German microsatellite, which carries an experimental spacecraft-based Automatic Identification System (AIS) sensor in low-Earth orbit as a means of tracking maritime assets.

The satellite is based on DLR's experimental CLAVIS platform. The cube-shaped satellite body carries solar cells for power generation. The launch mass is 14 kg.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 14.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

VELOX-1

The VELOX-I mission is a Singaporean nanosatellite mission consisting of two satellites - VELOX-1 and the VELOX P3 subsatellite - to operate in sun synchronous Low Earth’s Orbit (LEO). The project is part of NTU’s Undergraduate Satellite Program, which provides an opportunity for engineering students to participate in a multidisciplinary hands-on space project.

Payloads: 2
Total Mass: 7.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Location

First Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Stats

2014

35th orbital launch attempt

Indian Space Research Organisation

43rd mission
3rd mission of 2014
31st successful mission
11th consecutive successful mission

PSLV

27th mission
2nd mission of 2014
25th successful mission
23rd consecutive successful mission