India’s first launch of 2022 will ship a brand new Earth statement satellite to space after a sibling satellite was misplaced in a failed launch final yr.
You can watch the launch of the EOS-04 satellite stay on Sunday (Feb. 13) at 7:29 p.m. EST (0029 GMT or 6:29 p.m. native time Monday, Feb. 14), assuming that the mission blasts off on time. You can watch the launch stay on this web page, in addition to on the ISRO website and YouTube channel . The livestream usually activates a couple of minutes earlier than launch.
The India Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s earlier launch on this sequence, EOS-03, suffered a catastrophic failure throughout liftoff in August 2021. ISRO later stated the trigger was “a failure to ignite the cryogenic stage of the launch vehicle,” in response to India’s Economic Times.
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EOS-03 launched on a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) rocket that has but to fly once more for the reason that failure; earlier than the catastrophe, the heavy-lift GSLV had final launched in 2018, in response to ISRO records. The new EOS-04 mission will as an alternative use India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), launching from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, off the Bay of Bengal.
The mission’s major payload, EOS-04, will likely be hefted right into a sun-synchronous polar orbit with an altitude of 329 miles (529 kilometers), in response to ISRO. Such an orbit provides constant lighting to pictures beneath the satellite, making it simpler to check options on the bottom from one statement to a different.
The mission, ISRO added, will “provide high-quality images under all weather conditions for applications such as agriculture, forestry and plantations, soil moisture and hydrology, and flood mapping.”
Also on board will likely be two small satellites. The first is scholar satellite INSPIREsat-1, from the Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology in affiliation with the University of Colorado, Boulder. The mission, in response to the university, will carry out measurements of a zone of the environment generally known as the ionosphere, to have a look at superheated fuel (plasma) and different dynamics.
The second is a know-how demonstrator satellite (INS-2TD) from ISRO, which is supposed to be a precursor to a different mission: the India-Bhutan Joint Satellite (INS-2B). ISRO didn’t present extra particulars about both satellite on its launch web page.
Some further Indian launches anticipated to happen this yr embody the moon lander Chandrayaan-3, a sun-studying mission referred to as Aditya-L1, and one other Earth statement satellite referred to as EOS-06 or Oceansat-3, in response to the Times of India.
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