The satellite will be launched on the Indian Space Research Organisation's Polar rocket in August.
According to isros own manifest however both cartosat-3 and oceansat-3 wont be ready till october/november so unless those satelites are ready ahead of time i dont think it will be them either.
Thanks K210! Perhaps the ISRO payload is EMISAT, which was scheduled to be available in the first quarter of 2018.http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/emisat.htm
QuoteAs the Commission is aware, BlackSky is under a tight timetable to ship itsGlobal-1 satellite on July 15, 2018, for a September launch.Global-1 is on a PSLV flight.
As the Commission is aware, BlackSky is under a tight timetable to ship itsGlobal-1 satellite on July 15, 2018, for a September launch.
What version of PSLV will this launch use?
Quote from: zubenelgenubi on 08/15/2018 03:47 pmWhat version of PSLV will this launch use?Probably PSLV-XL.
A new set of future satellites called hyperspectral imaging satellites is set to add teeth to the way India is gleaned from about 600 km in space. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) says it plans to launch a full-fledged niche Earth observation (EO) satellite - called the Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite or HySIS - using a critical chip it has developed.
About a decade ago, ISRO added another EO niche with microwave or radar imaging satellites RISAT-1 and 2 that could 'see' through clouds and the dark - an important feature useful for the military and security agencies.
'Hyspex' imaging is said to enable distinct identification of objects, materials or processes on Earth by reading the spectrum for each pixel of a scene from space. The payloads development centre, Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad, designed the architecture of the chip which was made at ISRO's electronics arm, the Semi-Conductor Laboratory, Chandigarh. The result was a detector array that could read 1000 x 66 pixels.
ISRO first tried it out in an 83-kg IMS-1 experimental satellite in May 2008. The same year, a hyperspectral camera was put on Chandrayaan-1 and used to map lunar mineral resources. Very few space agencies have such a satellite; a German environmental satellite called EnMAP is due to be launched on an Indian booster in 2018.
In October itself, another launch of PSLV C43 is scheduled that will carry HySIS or hyperspectral imaging satellite. The satellite is set to add teeth to the way India is gleaned from 630 km altitude as it will enable the country to see in 55 spectral or colour bands.
Quote from: ZachS09 on 08/15/2018 04:46 pmQuote from: zubenelgenubi on 08/15/2018 03:47 pmWhat version of PSLV will this launch use?Probably PSLV-XL.Yes.
Quote from: russianhalo117 on 08/15/2018 07:05 pmQuote from: ZachS09 on 08/15/2018 04:46 pmQuote from: zubenelgenubi on 08/15/2018 03:47 pmWhat version of PSLV will this launch use?Probably PSLV-XL.Yes.I see that Gunter has changed his LV assignment for PSLV C43 to the PSLV-CA version.Am I right to deduce that this is because the primary payload, HySIS, is using the SSB-2 microsatellite bus? And, even 30 more secondary passengers would not overfill the PSLV-CA payload mass limits to a SSO?(SARAL also used this satellite bus and was launched to a similar polar orbit, with secondary payloads. SARAL massed only 346 kg.)
Launch date has slipped to mid november according to the reaktor hello world cubesat website (one of the payloads on C43). Source: https://reaktorspace.com/reaktor-hello-world/
Also this might end up being a XL variant rather than a CA variant reason being that a extra 450 kg payload was intended to fly on C42 (Which was supposed to be XL variant rather than CA). If that extra 450 kg payload is included on this mission than this will become a XL variant due to payload mass being too heavy for CA and G variant of PSLV being retired.
