The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch the Singaporean Earth Observation satellite TeLEOS-02 on Saturday, April 22. The launch will take place at 2.19 pm from the first launch pad at Sriharikota.
The satellite on board will be TeLEOS 2—a 750kg earth observation satellite that has synthetic aperture radar capable of providing data in 1-meter resolution. The satellites arrived in India in February.
This will be the third launch of the year for ISRO—all three using different launch vehicles. The first launch took place in February when the new Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) successfully deployed three satellites and was declared operational by the space agency. The second launch took place in March when India’s heaviest LVM3 launched 36 OneWeb satellites in a purely commercial mission.
PSLV C-55 was assembled in a new Integration facility that has been developed at the spaceport.
This will be the 57th launch of PSLV which has proven to be one of ISRO’s most reliable vehicles, having launched hundreds of satellites and only three failures or partial failures since 1993. The launch vehicle has also carried onboard India’s big-ticket missions like Chandrayaan-1, Mangalyaan, and AstroSat.
