January 12, 2018: AMISRO’s PSLV-C40 carrying Cartosat-2 series satellite and 30 other spacecraft lifts off from Sriharikota.
The “Cartosat-2 Series” and 29 other satellites inserted into a 505 kilometre sun-synchronous orbit.
Later, the payload Microsat developed by the ISRO will be taken down to a lower orbit at 359-kilometre height and launched using the ‘multiple engine switch-on’ method. This is the fourth time the novel method has been used by the ISRO for placing satellites in multiple orbits in a single flight.
It will also be one of the longest duration flights that will last for over two hours twenty-two minutes into space.
The satellite “Cartosat-2 Series” is the seventh remote sensing satellite in its series and has the mission life of five years.
Its uses include monitoring urban and rural applications, coastal land use regulation, managing services like road networks and water distribution, detecting changes in geographical features and creation of land use maps.
(AIR NEWS)
