{"id":62736,"date":"2019-03-26T17:11:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T09:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spaceflight-prepares-21-satellites-for-pslv-mission-2\/"},"modified":"2019-03-26T17:11:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T09:11:37","slug":"spaceflight-prepares-21-satellites-for-pslv-mission-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spaceflight-prepares-21-satellites-for-pslv-mission-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaceflight Prepares 21 Satellites for PSLV Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spaceflight<\/strong> will launch 21 spacecraft on a rideshare mission from India\u2019s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) at India\u2019s Satish Dhawan Space Center. The launch is scheduled for April 1. Payloads aboard the mission include the <strong>Astrocast<\/strong>-02 3U cubesat from Switzerland-based Astrocast and Flock 4a, 20 next-generation Dove satellites from <strong>Planet<\/strong>.&nbsp;This launch represents Spaceflight\u2019s eighth launch on a PSLV and with the completion of this mission, the company will have sent 95 spacecraft to orbit aboard PSLVs.<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight successfully launched the first test satellite of Astrocast\u2019s Internet of Things (IoT) Nanosatellite Network on its SSO-A dedicated rideshare mission in December 2018. Astrocast\u2019s network of 64 cubesats aim to extend the reach of two-way communications to the 90 percent of the globe currently not covered by cellular networks.&nbsp;In what is Planet\u2019s first launch of 2019, Flock 4a will join its current constellation of more than 100 Doves, replenishing the on-orbit fleet and providing upgrades to its imaging chain to improve image sharpness, radiometric consistency and spectral precision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPSLV missions continue to offer a reliable and proven launch option for our customers,\u201d said Spaceflight Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Curt Blake.\u201cBy working with Antrix\/ISRO and a wide range of vehicle providers, we are uniquely positioned to offer the greatest number of launch options to our customers. Having greater flexibility in launches can minimize the negative impacts of delays which is especially valuable for organizations launching multiple spacecraft.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spaceflight will launch 21 spacecraft on a rideshare mission from India\u2019s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) at India\u2019s Satish Dhawan Space Center. The launch is scheduled for April 1. Payloads aboard the mission include the Astrocast-02 3U cubesat from Switzerland-based Astrocast and Flock 4a, 20 next-generation Dove satellites from Planet.&nbsp;This launch represents Spaceflight\u2019s eighth launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61911,"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":[],"class_list":["post-62736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62736"}],"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=62736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}