India's new flight in space: SSLV-D2 rocket launch successful, will install 3 satellites

The Indian Space Research Organization has launched the second version of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle SSLV D-2 from the first launch pad of Satish Dhawan Center located in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. ISRO launched it at exactly 9.18 am. ISRO said that SSLV D-2 will attempt to place three satellites in a 450 km circular orbit during its 15 minutes of flight. This includes ISRO's EOS-07, America's Janus-1 and Chennai's startup SpaceKidz's AzaadiSAT-2.

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• Can launch up to 500 kg in low earth orbits, is low cost

• SSLV D-2 has a length of 34 m, a diameter of 2 m, launch vehicle weighing 120 tonnes

• The rocket also has 3 solid propulsion stages, a velocity terminal module

• The first test flight of SSLV, which took place on August 9 last year, was a partial failure.

Earlier, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Wednesday explained in detail what went wrong in the first developmental flight of Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV-D1) last year and why the mission could not be completed. SSLV-D1 was launched on August 7, 2022, from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota. The objective of the mission was to place ISRO's EOS-02 satellite into a circular orbit of 356.2 km with an inclination of 37.21°. Student satellite 'Azadisat' was also on the mission.

However, the reduction in velocity caused the spacecraft to enter a highly elliptical unstable orbit, rendering it unusable despite the normal performance of all solid propulsion stages, the space agency said in an update. Preliminary investigations with flight data indicated that SSLV-D1 departure was normal with the normal performance of all solid propulsion stages. However, mission salvage mode (to attempt minimum stable orbital conditions for the spacecraft in case of vehicle system anomaly) The mission could not be completed due to an anomaly during the second separation stage (SS 2) initiating the procedure to be followed for. (Also, from Inputs language).

(ASHNA)