{"id":19072,"date":"2017-02-15T21:18:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T13:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/104-satellite-launch-marks-success-for-india-and-seattles-spaceflight-industries\/"},"modified":"2017-02-15T21:18:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T13:18:39","slug":"104-satellite-launch-marks-success-for-india-and-seattles-spaceflight-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/104-satellite-launch-marks-success-for-india-and-seattles-spaceflight-industries\/","title":{"rendered":"104-satellite launch marks success for India (and Seattle\u2019s Spaceflight Industries)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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India\u2019s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on the coast of the Bay of Bengal, sending 104 satellites spaceward. (ISRO Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A record-setting flock of 104 satellites was successfully deployed into orbit overnight after the launch of an Indian rocket. Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries played a part in getting nine of those satellites where they needed to go.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, or PSLV, lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota at 9:28 a.m. local time today (7:58 p.m. PT Tuesday).<\/p>\n

The mission\u2019s main payload was the Indian Space Research Organization\u2019s Cartosat 2D, a car-sized satellite designed for environmental mapping. Another 88 Dove nanosatellites, each about the size of a toaster oven, will become part of Planet\u2019s Earth-observing constellation.<\/p>\n

Eight more nanosatellites were launched for Spire Global, which is filling out a constellation to monitor weather as well as aviation and maritime traffic. This is the second Spire PSLV mission facilitated by Spaceflight Industries, which handles launch logistics.<\/p>\n

Spaceflight also arranged to get Israel Aerospace Industries\u2019 BGUSat nanosatellite on the flight. BGUSat is a research spacecraft built by students at Ben Gurion University to perform cloud imaging and measure atmospheric background radiation.<\/p>\n

Six more research satellites rounded out the flock, which represented the highest number of satellites launched on a single rocket. ISRO said all 104 satellites were successfully deployed into pole-to-pole orbits within a half-hour after launch.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OyJ2x8HyuqM<\/p>\n

The mission marked a numerical milestone for Spaceflight Industries as well as for India\u2019s space effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve hit (and passed) the 100-satellite milestone,\u201d Spaceflight said in a pre-launch blog posting. \u201cWith this launch, we\u2019ve sent 103 satellites to space since our first one in 2013. The team at Spaceflight is proud of this achievement, and to be part of enabling the growth of commercial enterprises and new science missions in space.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to launch logistics, Spaceflight is building its own spacecraft for its BlackSky Earth-observing constellation. Its first BlackSky Pathfinder satellite was launched on a PSLV rocket last September, and the second Pathfinder is due to be sent into orbit later this year.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Spaceflight\u2019s BlackSky subsidiary aims to have 60 satellites sending down on-demand imagery from low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

India\u2019s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on the coast of the Bay of Bengal, sending 104 satellites spaceward. (ISRO Photo) A record-setting flock of 104 satellites was successfully deployed into orbit overnight after the launch of an Indian rocket. Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries played a part in getting nine […]<\/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":[301,20,2340],"class_list":["post-19072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-india","tag-satellite","tag-spaceflight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19072"}],"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=19072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}