NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

EMISAT & Rideshares

Launch Time
Mon Apr 01, 2019 03:57 UTC

The first flight of PSLV in the QL configuration featuring four solid rocket boosters.

Rocket

PSLV-QL
ISRO
Status: Active
Price: $21.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 7,661 kN
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 4
Rocket Height: 44.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 3.2 m
Fairing Height: 8.3 m

Mission Details

EMISAT

EMISAT is a small Indian satellite developed by ISRO. The satellite is based on the SSB-2 bus inherited from SARAL. The nature of the payload has not been officially confirmed, but the published illustration of the EMISAT matches a description of the Kautilya ELINT payload.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 436.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Rideshares

28 other small payloads were flown on this mission:
- Flock-4a 1 to 20
- Lemur-2 96 to 99
- BlueWalker 1
- M6P
- Astrocast 0.2
- AISTECHSAT 3
- AIS/APRS/ARIS

Payloads: 28
Total Mass: 220.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Location

Second Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Stats

2019

21st orbital launch attempt

Indian Space Research Organisation

71st mission
2nd mission of 2019
58th successful mission
9th consecutive successful mission

PSLV

47th mission
2nd mission of 2019
44th successful mission
6th consecutive successful mission