Congrats ISRO ! PSLV-C28 Carrying 5 British Satellites Takes off Successfully.

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Heralding a new era, India on Friday launched its heaviest commercial space mission ever with its polar rocket successfully putting five British satellites into the intended orbit after a flawless takeoff...

ISRO chairman Kiran Kumar said,"We have an exclusive commercial launch for one of our customers, UK's Surrey Technologies and this PSLV launch will carry five of their satellites." This is the 30th launch of India's PSLV or Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. Till date, India has launched 40 satellites from 19 countries on a commercial basis.

Indian scientists have launched five British satellites into orbit from the Sriharikota space port tonight. The lift-off, which was scheduled for 9.58 pm, went smoothly. For this special launch, Britain has not only rented premium space from the Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO, but its Surrey Satellite Technology Limited has also hired an entire rocket for the first time.

The 320 tonne (320,000 kilograms) rocket is as tall as a 15-storey building and will hoist, apart from a constellation of three disaster-monitoring satellites, two smaller experimental satellites into space.The total weight of the British satellites is 1440 kg, making this the heaviest commercial launch ever to be undertaken by India.

                           

The total weight of the British satellites is 1440 kg, making this the heaviest commercial launch ever to be undertaken by India.According to ISRO, this is the heaviest commercial luggage carried by a PSLV rocket till date with the five satellites weighing around 1,440 kg.

While Friday's rocket flight is the first commercial rocket launch for the Indian space agency this calendar year, in terms of number of rocket launches for 2015, it is the second after the launch of navigation satellite-IRNSS-1D earlier in March.

Of the five payloads, three are mini-satellites DMC3-1, DMC3-2 and DMC3-3, each weighing 447 kg whereas two are auxiliary satellites, - CBNT-1 micro-satellite (91kg) and De-orbitSail (7kg).

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PSLV C28 successfully launches five UK Satellites
The three DMC3 and the CBNT-1 satellites are built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. The De-OrbitSail is built by Surrey Space Centre.

The five international satellites are being launched as part of the arrangement entered into between DMC International Imaging (DMCii), a wholly owned subsidiary of SSTL, UK and Antrix Corporation Limited.

Since 1999 till date, India has launched 40 satellites of other countries with its PSLV rocket and with today's successful launch of the five British satellites, the tally has now risen to 45.

China Has Overtaken India in Space Race by a Decade.

Former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) G Madhavan Nair has said that China  has made enormous strides in manned space missions, has overtaken India in the space race by at least a decade. The Chinese are very focused about their space programme and they have already put ten astronauts into space. He said that the Chinese programme was almost a ‘carbon copy’ of the manned space flight proposals, he himself had submitted to the Indian Government five years ago.

Madhavan Nair regretted,‘’Those dreams have been shattered. There are a lot of similarities between the proposals I submitted and what they are now pursuing.  India could have established supremacy in the space race had his proposals been pursued."

ISRO as per plan,is ready with the ambitious  Mars Orbiter Mission, as on schedule on October 28. India plans to launch its MOM spacecraft on  the first day (October 28) of the launch window which remains open till November 19.Once launched, MOM would go around the earth for 20-25 days before embarking on a nine month voyage to the red planet.Mars Orbiter Mission is India's first interplanetary mission to planet Mars with an orbiter craft designed to orbit Mars in an elliptical orbit. 

Moreover the Mission is primarily technological mission considering the critical mission operations and stringent requirements on propulsion and other bus systems of spacecraft. The basic objectives of this Indian mission to Mars is to develop the technologies required for design, planning, management and operations of an interplanetary mission.