ISRO launches 20 satellites all at once!
The Dollar Business The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched a record of 20 satellites in a single mission from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C-34 (PSLV C-34) has launched 20 satellites including 17 foreign payloads, from US, Germany, Canada and Indonesia. The country’s earth observation-satellite is among the satellites of Google’s Terra Bella’s SkySat Gen2, former NASA employee’s Planet Labs Dove Satellites and 2 satellites made by the students of Sathyabhama Univ, Chennai and College of Engineering Pune. The rocket with the satellite weighs 1288 kg and was launched into orbit at 9.26am. This is considered to be the biggest ever mission for ISRO! The launching of 20 satellites is a demonstration ...
India earned Rs.209 crore by launching five British satellites
Source: PIB, Government of India Revenue accrued by launching satellites The total value of the transaction agreement entered into between Antrix Corporation Limited, the commercial arm of Department of Space and DMC International Imaging (DMCii), a wholly owned subsidiary of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), UK for launch of 5 British Satellite’s viz. DMC3-1, DMC3-2, DMC3-3, CBNT-1 and De-orbitsail, is 28 million euros (Rs.209.41 crores). The total revenue of 28 million euros (Rs.209.41 Crores) has accurued to Antrix as these satellites have been launched under commercial agreement between Antrix Corporation Limited and M/s. DMCii. From 1999 till date, 45 foreign satellites from 19 countries have been successfully launched using PSLV under commercial arrangement between Antrix Corporation Limited and the foreign ...
