EMISAT & Rideshares

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

03:57:00

Monday April 1, 2019

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Launch Notes

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

EMISAT

Wiki

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.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

1 Payload

436 kilograms

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

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

28 Payloads

220 kilograms

Rocket

Active
PSLV-QL

Active Since 2019

Indian Space Research Organisation logo

Agency

ISRO

Price

$21.00 million

Rocket

Height: 44m

Liftoff Thrust

7,661 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 3.2m

Height: 8.3m

Stages

4

Strap-ons

4

Launch Site

Second Launch Pad

Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Fastest Turnaround

31 days

Stats

PSLV


47th

Mission

2nd

Mission of 2019

Indian Space Research Organisation


71st

Mission

2nd

Mission of 2019

2019


21st

Orbital launch attempt