{"id":17968,"date":"2019-08-06T23:47:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T15:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spaceflight-gets-first-crack-at-indias-new-sslv-rocket-and-puts-up-a-sold-out-sign\/"},"modified":"2019-08-06T23:47:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T15:47:20","slug":"spaceflight-gets-first-crack-at-indias-new-sslv-rocket-and-puts-up-a-sold-out-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spaceflight-gets-first-crack-at-indias-new-sslv-rocket-and-puts-up-a-sold-out-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaceflight gets first crack at India\u2019s new SSLV rocket \u2013 and puts up a \u2018sold out\u2019 sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_432159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-432159\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-432159\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180705-pslv-630x477.jpg\" alt=\"PSLV rocket\" width=\"630\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180705-pslv-630x477.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180705-pslv-768x581.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180705-pslv-1260x953.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180705-pslv.jpg 1445w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-432159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">India\u2019s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle will be smaller than its workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, shown here on its launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center. (ISRO Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seattle-based Spaceflight says it\u2019s purchased the first commercial launch of India\u2019s next-generation Small Satellite Launch Vehicle, or SSLV, and has already committed all of the available payload space to a U.S.-based satellite constellation customer.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, announced today in conjunction with the annual SmallSat conference in Logan, Utah, builds on Spaceflight\u2019s existing relationship with the Indian Space Research Organization and India-based commercial ventures.<\/p>\n<p>ISRO developed the SSLV with a payload capacity of 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) to mid-inclination low Earth orbit, or LEO, and 300 kilograms (660 pounds) to sun-synchronous orbit. That\u2019s more suited for launching small satellites than India\u2019s workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, or PSLV, which can put 1,100 to 1,600 kilograms (2,425 to 3,500 pounds) into sun-synchronous orbit and has served as a go-to rocket for Spaceflight.<\/p>\n<p>The SSLV launch was purchased from New Space India Limited, or NSIL, and is due for liftoff from India\u2019s Satish Dhawan Space Center later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight\u2019s CEO and president, Curt Blake, said the SSLV will provide a \u201cmuch-needed solution to fill the gap in the portfolio of small launch vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"SSLV will lead way to the commercial market believes S. Rakesh of Antrix\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c-hXkVr2FFQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSSLV is perfectly suited for launching multiple microsatellites at a time and supports multiple orbital drop-offs,\u201d Blake said in a news release. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to add SSLV to our launch portfolio and manage many launches together \u2013 first to LEO mid-inclinations this year, and SSO missions starting in the fall of 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NSIL\u2019s director, Radhakrishnan Durairaj, said his company will \u201clook forward to many more launches with Spaceflight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight didn\u2019t identify its launch customer, other than to say it\u2019s a U.S.-based satellite constellation operator. But that description applies to BlackSky, Spaceflight\u2019s sibling subsidiary under the aegis of Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries.<\/p>\n<p>BlackSky is in the midst of creating what\u2019s expected to become a 16-satellite Earth-observing constellation by 2020. Its fourth satellite, Global-4, is slated to go into orbit on a Rocket Lab Electron launch vehicle as early as next week.<\/p>\n<p>In a filing submitted to the Federal Communications Commission last month, BlackSky said it intended to launch the next four satellites \u2013 Global-5 through Global-8 \u2013 on an SSLV rocket in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle will be smaller than its workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, shown here on its launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center. (ISRO Photo) Seattle-based Spaceflight says it\u2019s purchased the first commercial launch of India\u2019s next-generation Small Satellite Launch Vehicle, or SSLV, and has already committed all of the available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2128,301,508,2340,2341,4966],"class_list":["post-17968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blacksky-global","tag-india","tag-smallsat","tag-spaceflight","tag-spaceflight-industries","tag-sslv"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}