PSLV C15, Cartosat-2B + nanosats, July 12 2010

• #20 by Satori on 12 Jul, 2010 03:55
• Second stage sep...
• #21 by Satori on 12 Jul, 2010 03:56
• Performance normal...

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• #22 by Satori on 12 Jul, 2010 03:57
• Separation of second stage. Third stage ignition...
• #23 by Satori on 12 Jul, 2010 03:58

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• #24 by Satori on 12 Jul, 2010 04:01
• Performance is normal... Separation of the third stage...

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• #25 by Satori on 12 Jul, 2010 04:02

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• #26 by Satori on 12 Jul, 2010 04:10
• CartoSat-2B separation!!!
• #27 by Satori on 12 Jul, 2010 04:13
• All other satellites have separated successfully!!!
  
  Congratulations to ISRO!!!
• #28 by sanman on 12 Jul, 2010 04:54
• The smallest payload deployed was a satellite designed by students at a technical college:
  
  
• #29 by Lewis007 on 12 Jul, 2010 06:48
• Here's the brochure on the Cartosat-2B satellite and the PSLV-C15 launch, published by ISRO.

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  CARTOSAT2B-brochure.pdf
• #30 by Lewis007 on 12 Jul, 2010 06:52
• ISRO has published pix of the launch here: http://www.isro.org/pslv-c15/Imagegallery/launchvehicle.aspx#0
  A single pic of Cartosat-2b being processed for launch can be found here: http://www.isro.org/pslv-c15/Imagegallery/satellite.aspx

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• #31 by Space Pete on 12 Jul, 2010 16:06
• BBC News: "Norway launches AISSat ship-tracking spacecraft".
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10599774.stm
• #32 by bolun on 12 Jul, 2010 19:40
• Successful launch for ALSAT-2A
  
  July 12 2010
  
  ALSAT-2A, designed and built by Astrium, was launched at 04.52 (BST) this morning aboard an Indian PSLV rocket from the Sriharikota launch base on behalf of the Algerian Space Agency (ASAL). ALSAT-2 is the first Earth observation satellite from Astrium’s AstroSat100 micro-satellite product line, based on the Myriade platform, also comprising the first flight model of the new NAOMI optical instrument.
  
  http://www.astrium.eads.net/en/news/successful-launch-for-alsat-2a.html
• #33 by sanman on 13 Jul, 2010 06:21
• Launch footage from a nearby observation point:
  
  
• #34 by sanman on 13 Jul, 2010 06:30
• TIsat-1 beacon signal as heard during it´s first day of operation (July, 12; 2010) after launch in India by PSLV-C-15. TIsat is an educational Swiss cubesat and the reception was made in Sao Paulo Brazil on 70 cm UHF amateur radio band: