Indian Space Research Organisation’s Polar Satellite launch Vehicle will launch six Singapore satellites from Sriharikota on Wednesday.
According to ISRO the Mission Readiness Review committee and launch Authorisation Board have cleared the countdown.
ISRO said the filling of propellant in PS4 stage (fourth stage) was completed on Monday.
ISRO will launch the six satellites into a 550-km circular orbit inclined at 15 degrees to the equator. It is using its trusted PSlV which is on its 32nd flight in ‘core-alone’ configuration without the use of solid strap-on motors.
Of the six satellites, TelEOS-1 is the primary satellite weighing 400
kgs whereas the other five satellites include two micro-satellites and three nano-satellites.
TelEOS-1 is the first Singapore commercial earth observation satellite. It would be launched into a low Earth orbit for “remote sensing” applications.
Antrix Corporation ltd, the commercial arm of ISRO, has provided launch services in PSlV for 51 customer satellites from 20 countries so far.