Chennai: The 25-hour countdown for the Thursday night start of Indian Polar Satellite Launch Car or truck (PSLV) rocket, carrying 3 Singapore satellites, started on Wednesday night, the Indian room company claimed.
The mission is codenamed PSLV-C53/DS-EO by the Indian Place Research Organisation (ISRO).
Through the countdown, the rockets’ engines driven by liquid gasoline will be loaded and all other programs will be checked.
The Indian rocket will have a few satellites — the 365 kg DS-EO and 155 kg NeuSAR, satellites belonging to Singapore and constructed by Starec Initiative of South Korea.
The 3rd satellite is a 2.8 kg Scoob-1 of Nanyang Technological College (NTU), Singapore.
If the start is effective, the PSLV rocket would have released 345 international satellites belonging to 36 international locations considering the fact that 1999.
In accordance to the ISRO, the PSLV-C53 rocket is expected to blast off from the 2nd start pad at the Sriharikota rocket port at 6 p.m. on June 30.
The Indian room agency, ISRO will use the rocket’s fourth and ultimate phase as an orbital system for 6 payloads, including two from Indian area start off-ups, Digantara and Dhruva Aerospace.
The mission proposes to show the utilisation of the used higher stage of the start automobile as a stabilised platform for scientific payloads, subsequent to the separation of the satellites.
The 4 stage expendable, 44.4 m tall PSLV-C53 has a raise-off mass of about 228 ton and full weight of the 3 satellites is 522.8 kg.
The rocket’s 4 phases will be driven by alternating solid and liquid gas.
Thursday’s flight will be the 55th mission of PSLV and 15th mission using the PSLV-Core Alone variant.
In its regular configuration, the rocket will have 6 strap-on motors hugging its first phase.
In the Main Alone variant of PSLV, the six strap-on motors will not be there as the payload pounds is much less.
The Indian space company has PSLV variants with two and 4 strap-on motors and larger sized PSLV-XL.
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