Another passenger of the ISILaunch17 Campaign is BGUSat, a 3U CubeSat built by Ben Gurion University of Israel, with support from Israeli Aerospace Industries. It is a technology demonstrator mission for various new nanosatellite avionics systems developed for future operational missions, while the primary mission objectives are cloud imaging for academic research and measurement of atmospheric background radiation.
Following the final test campaign to prepare BGUSat for flight at the facilities of IAI in Israel, the satellite was shipped to our facilities in the Netherlands. Representatives of the BGUsat team integrated the satellite in the QuadPack deployer, ready to be launched on PSLV.
With the knowledge that all hardware had arrived at the Launch Site Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, it was time for the integration team to accomplish the same. Hence, on Monday the first group departed to arrive at Chennai on Tuesday morning to subsequently be at SHAR in the afternoon. Already that same afternoon preparatory activities took place and included obtaining permits and setting up workplaces. While the second group was inbound, the first group started with initiating a number of activities, which included performing post-shipment checks of the shipped hardware; later that day the second group joined them. Now that the team was complete, activities really got underway and included making the QuadPacks ready for flight.
Planet is pleased to announce that in February we are launching 88 satellites—the largest fleet of satellites launched in history. The Dove satellites (collectively known as “Flock 3p”) will ride aboard a PSLV rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. They’re heading to a morning crossing time, Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) at an approximate altitude of 500 km. The launch date is currently set for February 14, Valentine’s day.
So, AFAIU, the payload components known so far are as follows:Cartosat-2DINS-1AINS-1B88 DoveNayiv-1BGUSatPEASSSDIDO-2Al Farabi-1A total of 96, so we still have 8 unidentified nanosats
The UAE's Nayiv-1 cubesat has been moved from the Falcon-9/FORMOSAT-5/SHERPA launch to the PSLV C37 launch
Quote from: Skyrocket on 02/03/2017 11:43 amThe UAE's Nayiv-1 cubesat has been moved from the Falcon-9/FORMOSAT-5/SHERPA launch to the PSLV C37 launchThe spelling is Nayif 1 (f and v are next to each on the keyboard).http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/nayif-1.htm
Here is another articlehttp://www.sakshi.com/news/andhra-pradesh/isro-to-send-104-satellites-in-an-attempt-on-15th-february-447218> All stages of PSLV integrated> Launch expected on Feb 15 9:32 IST> Satellites will be integrated to fourth stage on 9th> Checks on 10th and 11.> Mission Readiness Review on 12 th where launch date will be officially announced> Launch authorisation board will take over the PSLV launch with a 36 hr countdown
So, AFAIU, the payload components known so far are as follows:Cartosat-2DINS-1AINS-1B88 DoveNayif-1BGUSatPEASSSDIDO-2Al Farabi-1A total of 96, so we still have 8 unidentified nanosatsEdit: corrected Nayif-1 name
The main passenger on PSLV-C37 will be the fourth in the Cartosat-2 series, a very high resolution Earth observation satellite of about 650 kg, and occupies roughly half the space in the launch vehicle. It will carry two more Indian nano satellites, INS-1A and INS-1B, each weighing about 10 kg. They have a short lifespan of six to 12 months.All the payloads will totally weigh around 1,500 kg, according to an ISRO official who did not want to be named. The 88 Doves would be released in sets of four cubesats. The other co-riders are cubesats or small specialised satellites of customers from Israel, the UAE, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. They will be released separately into their orbits at around 500 km from Earth.
? payloads Belgium & Germany. This leads me to the conclusion that some of the QB-50 cubesats will launch with PSLV C37. Most likely it are the eight QB-50 PL satellites, but it could also be some of the unscheduled cubesats.
