VIDEO: ISRO’s another miracle in the sky, 9 satellites launched simultaneously, 1 Bhutan’s satellite also included
ISRO News: ISRO has done another amazing today. PSLV-C54 lifted off from Sriharikota carrying an Earth observation satellite along with eight other satellites. ISRO Chairman S Somnath said that PSLV-C54 successfully placed the earth observation satellite in its target orbit.
New Delhi: ISRO i.e. Indian Space Research Organization did another big feat today i.e. on Saturday. ISRO launched 9 satellites simultaneously at around 12 o’clock this morning. According to news agency ANI, ISRO launched eight small satellites, including Oceans-3 and one satellite from Bhutan, under the PSLV-C54/EOS-06 mission from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, Tamil Nadu. ISRO Chief has confirmed this.
ISRO Chairman S Somnath said that PSLV-C54 successfully placed the Earth Observation Satellite and eight other satellites in the target orbit. According to ISRO, this launch was done at 11.56 pm on Saturday afternoon. Oceans-3 and eight mini-satellites – Bhutansat, Pixel’s ‘Anand’, two Thibolts of Dhruva space, and four Astrocast of Spaceflight USA – were launched through SLV-C54.
Before this, ISRO launched the first privately developed Indian rocket. On November 18, India’s first private rocket ‘Vikram-S’ took off from the spacecraft here on Friday carrying three satellites. The six-meter-long launch vehicle ‘Vikram-S’ has been named after the father of the space program, Vikram Sarabhai. It has been developed by ‘Skyroot Aerospace’.
The mission has been named ‘Prarambh’ as a symbol of a new beginning. Vikram-S carried satellites from Chennai-based start-up ‘Space Kidz’, Andhra Pradesh’s start-up ‘N-Space Tech’ and Armenian start-up ‘BazumQ Space Research Lab’.
