The national space agency ISRO will launch India’s most sophisticated Earth observation satellite Cartosat-3 this morning. ISRO has said, the third generation, agile and advanced satellite will be carried by PSLV-C47 along with 13 other nano-satellites belonging to a US firm at 09:28 hrs.
It will be ignited from the second launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, some 90 kilometres off Chennai.
This is the 21st flight of India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle in ‘XL’ configuration and 74th launch vehicle mission overall from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. The PSLV-C47 has 6 solid strap-on motors. The Cartosat 3 satellite will be placed at an orbit of 509 km and inclination of 97.5 degrees.
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