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PSLV-C45 Successfully Launched EMISAT and 28 Global Satellites
In its first-three orbit mission, ISRO launched the PSLV-C45 at about 9:27 hours on Monday, April 1 from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in coastal Andhra Pradesh. 17 minutes and 12 seconds after the liftoff, India’s first electronic surveillance satellite, EMISAT, was injected into a 748 km sun-synchronous polar orbit. Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO’s) third generation spark plug, PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle), which took its 47th flight on Monday, also carried 28 other nano satellites from foreign customers along with EMISAT in the mission among which were satellites belonging to the US, Lithuania, Spain, and Switzerland.
Alongside being the first three-orbit mission, this was also the first one to put solar panels in rocket fourth stage (PS4) and the foremost undertaking of PSLV-QL, a new variant consisting of four strap-on motors each of which carries 12.2 tonne of propellant for lift-off.
After separation, the two solar arrays of EMISAT were deployed automatically and the ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network at Bengaluru assumed control of the satellite. In the coming days, the satellite will be brought to its final operational configuration, stated ISRO. Post an hour and 55 minutes of the lift-off, the last customer satellite was put into its assigned orbit and post 3 hours, the vehicle’s PS4 was transferred to a lower circular orbit of 485 km following two restarts to establish it as an orbital platform for performing experiments with the three payloads.
The PS4 was restarted four times during the mission owing to the use of a multiple-burn technology, where the engines shuts and restarts multiple times within a short duration allowing the rocket to pursue to the next orbit with the payloads.
This was one of PSLV’s longest missions around the Earth. The preceding longest one was of the PSLV-C40 in January 2018 that lasted for 2 hours and 21 minutes.
The final and fourth stage of the rocket will stay alive for the next 6 months. ISRO also mentioned that in its next mission, PSLV-C46 will launch RISAT-2B in May 2019.
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