{"id":73757,"date":"2015-07-13T19:30:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T11:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/isro-pslv-orbits-five-sstl-built-satellites\/"},"modified":"2015-07-13T19:30:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T11:30:29","slug":"isro-pslv-orbits-five-sstl-built-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/isro-pslv-orbits-five-sstl-built-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO PSLV Orbits Five SSTL-Built Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 07-13-2015] The <b>Indian Space Research Organization <\/b>(ISRO) successfully launched five satellites from spacecraft manufacturer <b>Surrey Satellite Technology Limited <\/b>(SSTL) on a July 10 Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-XL mission. The PSLV-C28 mission was the 30th PSLV launch, and ninth of the XL configuration. <b>Antrix<\/b>, the commercial arm of ISRO, established the launch agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the five satellites are for SSTL subsidiary <b>DMC International Imaging <\/b>(DMCii), forming the DMC3\/TripleSat Earth observation constellation. The satellites reached a 651km sun-synchronous Low Earth Orbit (LEO), where they will provide high spatial and temporal resolution optical data. All three satellites are in the same plane and phased with a separation of 120 degrees between them in order to image any target on the Earth\u2019s surface every day. Beijing, China-based <b>Twenty First Century Aerospace Technology Company <\/b>(21AT), a commercial Earth observation satellite operator, purchased the imaging capacity of the three satellites.<\/p>\n<p>The other two satellites are both for technology demonstrations. CBNT 1, with a mass of 91 kg, is an optical Earth observation technology demonstration micro-satellite, and the 7 kg De-orbitSail from Surrey Space Center is an experimental nano-satellite testing a deorbit method that uses a large thin membrane sail to increase drag at the end of a satellite\u2019s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 07-13-2015] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched five satellites from spacecraft manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) on a July 10 Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-XL mission. The PSLV-C28 mission was the 30th PSLV launch, and ninth of the XL configuration. Antrix, the commercial arm of ISRO, established the launch agreement. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73758,"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-73757","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\/73757"}],"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=73757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}