NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

TeLEOS-2 & Others

Launch Time
Sat Apr 22, 2023 08:50 UTC

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

TeLEOS-2

TeLEOS-2 is a Singaporean Earth Observation satellite built by ST Electronics (Satellite Systems). It carries a made-in-Singapore Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) capable of providing 1 m resolution data. It will be equipped with a 500 GB onboard recorder for recording the data captured and a high-speed 800 Mbps downlink.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 741.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

LUMILITE-4

The LUMELITE-4 satellite is co-developed by the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) of A*STAR and the Satellite Technology and Research Centre (STAR) of the National University of Singapore. LUMELITE4 is an advanced 12U satellite developed for the technological demonstration of the High-Performance Space-borne VHF Data Exchange System (VDES). Using the VDES communication payload developed by I2R and STAR’s scalable satellite bus platform, it aims to augment Singapore’s e-navigation maritime safety and benefit the global shipping community.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 16.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

POEM-2

The mission has the PSLV Orbital Experimental Module (POEM), where the spent PS4 stage of the launch vehicle would be utilized as an orbital platform to carry out scientific experiments through non-separating payloads. The payloads are ARIS-2, PiLOT, ARKA200, Starberry, DSOL, DSOD-3U and DSOD-6U, and belong to ISRO/Department of Space, Bellatrix, Dhruva Space, and Indian Institute of Astrophysics.

Payloads: 1
Low Earth Orbit

Location

First Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Stats

2023

62nd orbital launch attempt

Indian Space Research Organisation

87th mission
3rd mission of 2023
72nd successful mission
5th consecutive successful mission

PSLV

57th mission
1st mission of 2023
54th successful mission
16th consecutive successful mission