The 450-kilogram NovaSAR, whose total cost has been estimated at about 50 million British pounds ($65 million), is a partnership between the British government and SSTL. The government contributed about 21 million British pounds to NovaSAR’s development and launch.The satellite is scheduled for launch in early 2018 aboard an Indian PSLV rocket. The rocket is recovering from an Aug. 31 failure — its payload fairing failed to separate — and Indian authorities hope to return to flight late this year. The NovaSAR is scheduled for the flight after that.
GSLV-MkIII-D2/GSAT-29 Mission is scheduled to be launched during the first half of 2018.
Caleb Henry @CHenry_SNTelesat's Erwin Hudson: first LEO satellite launches November 28 on Soyuz. Second satellite scheduled for Dec. 30 (PSLV). Expecting to launch large batches in 2020, completing the constellation in 2021.
Peter B. de Selding @pbdesSmallsat builder @SurreySat ships #Telesat's LEO-1 Ka-band broadband prototype satellite to India for @isro PSLV launch late December; 2nd LEO prototype, built by @sslmda, launches Nov 28 on Russian Soyuz.
ISRO says its next launch will be in Dec end or Jan first week
It's all over: https://the-ken.com/teamindus-isro-call-off-glxp/QuoteTeamIndus and Isro have not made it public yet but they have called off the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle launch contract signed for the GLXP mission. A host of issues led to this decision though primary among them is a payment cycle gone awry. A chartered PSLV flight costs anywhere between $25-30 million.TeamIndus continues its fund-raising efforts though it’s not clear whether it would go for an independent moon mission in 2018 or later or take a different growth path altogether.What was supposed to be a banner year for the Bengaluru company, hasn’t begun well but it could still have an expected end
TeamIndus and Isro have not made it public yet but they have called off the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle launch contract signed for the GLXP mission. A host of issues led to this decision though primary among them is a payment cycle gone awry. A chartered PSLV flight costs anywhere between $25-30 million.TeamIndus continues its fund-raising efforts though it’s not clear whether it would go for an independent moon mission in 2018 or later or take a different growth path altogether.What was supposed to be a banner year for the Bengaluru company, hasn’t begun well but it could still have an expected end
GSAT-11, a six-tonne class communication satellite, he said, was at the final leg of testing, and the launch target was April.
Chandrayaan II is slated for the second quarter of 2018, but before that comes a GSLV Mk-II mission carrying the GSAT 6-A satellite - in February - which will be followed by a flight of the GSLV Mk-III, India’s heftiest rocket to date fitted with a functional cryogenic engine.
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) has signed a £25M contract in Beijing with Twenty First Century Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd. (21AT) to provide data from a new Earth Observation (EO) satellite (SSTL-S1) that is due for launch via an ISRO PSLV launch vehicle mid-year.
As a part of the three-year short-term action plan, immediate missions that we plan to do this year are the GSLV-F08 that will launch the GSAT-6A communication satellite [around February]. Then we will have a PSLV mission with navigation satellite IRNSS-1I. Then comes the second developmental flight D2 of GSLV-MkIII. It will launch the high throughput satellite GSAT-29. Later, GSAT-11, which will be our heaviest satellite as of now, will be launched from Kourou. The Chandrayaan-2 mission will be launched this year on another GSLV.
