New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Saturday (Nov 7, 2020) successfully launched the PSLVC49 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center (SDSC) SHAR in Sriharikota.
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on mission 51 (PSLV-C49) launched EOS-01 as the primary satellite along with nine international customer satellites at 3:12 PM IST.
The launch was previously scheduled at 3:02 PM IST, but was delayed 10 minutes.
# PSLVC49 successfully lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota#ISRO # EOS01 pic.twitter.com/dWCBbKty8F
– ISRO (@isro) November 7, 2020
#ISRO # EOS01
The Director of Mission has authorized the launch of # PSLVC49 at 3:12 p.m. IST– ISRO (@isro) November 7, 2020
According to recent reports, EOS-01 has been successfully separated from the fourth stage of PSLVC49 and injected into orbit and the nine customer satellites have also been successfully separated and injected into their intended orbit.
All nine customer satellites were separated and successfully injected into their intended orbit# PSLVC49 pic.twitter.com/rrtL3sVAI3
– ISRO (@isro) November 7, 2020
# EOS01 successfully separated from the fourth stage of # PSLVC49 and injected into orbit#ISRO pic.twitter.com/2u5jBPGNQD
– ISRO (@isro) November 7, 2020
Prime Minister Narendra Modi also congratulated ISRO and the Indian space industry on the successful launch of the PSLV-C49 / EOS-01 mission.
“In the time of COVID-19, our scientists overcame many constraints to meet the deadline,” PM Modi tweeted.
I congratulate @ISRO and the Indian space industry for the successful launch of the PSLV-C49 / EOS-01 mission today. In the time of COVID-19, our scientists overcame many constraints to meet the deadline.
– Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) November 7, 2020
It should be noted that the EOS-01 is an Earth observation satellite intended for applications in agriculture, forestry and disaster management support.
The nine foreign satellites are from: one from Lithuania (R2, technology demonstrator), four from Luxembourg (Kleos Space maritime application satellites) and four from the United States (Lemur multi-mission remote sensing satellites).
The customers’ satellites were launched under a commercial agreement with NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), Department of Space.
The launch was streamed live on ISRO’s official website along with its YouTube, Facebook and Twitter channels.
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is India’s third generation launch vehicle and is the first Indian launch vehicle equipped with liquid stages. After its first successful launch in October 1994, PSLV emerged as India’s reliable and versatile launch vehicle with 39 consecutive successful missions in June 2017.
During the period 1994-2017, the vehicle had launched 48 Indian satellites and 209 satellites for overseas customers.
Additionally, the vehicle successfully launched two spacecraft, Chandrayaan-1 in 2008 and Mars Orbiter Spacecraft in 2013, which then traveled to the Moon and Mars respectively.
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