ISRO - The second launch of the SSLV launch vehicle

 

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Feb 10, 2023

The second launch of SSLV (SSLV-D2)

ISRO’s SSLV-D2 rocket was launched for the second time from the First Launch Pad (FLP) of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), Sriharikota, India, on 10 February 2023, at 03:48 UTC (09:18 IST).

SSLV-D2 - the second launch of SSLV

For its second developmental flight (D2), the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) launched EOS-07 (156.3 kg), Janus-1 (11.5 kg) for Antaris and AzaadiSAT-2 (8.7 kg) satellites into 450 km circular orbit.

Image above: ISRO SSLV-D2 mission, payloads dispenser. Image Credit: ISRO

JANUS-1 (11.5 kg): It is a software-defined 6U satellite by Antaris (USA), built and operable using their cloud based software platform. It will host five payloads running on their SatOS satellite software. XDLINX Labs and Ananth Technologies are their primary manufacturing partners.

Janus-1 satellite

AzaadiSAT is an Indian Earth observation 8U Cubesat weighing around 8 kg developed by the Space Kidz India as a test payload on the second launch of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV).

AzaadiSAT-2 satellite

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Related links:

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO): https://www.isro.gov.in/

Antaris: https://www.antaris.space/

Images, Video, Text, Credit: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)/Antaris/SciNews/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.

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