https://spacewatch.global/tag/isro-polar-space-launch-vehicle/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Wed, 22 Aug 2018 05:00:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/isro-polar-space-launch-vehicle/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2018/08/indias-antrix-corporation-to-launch-sstls-novasar-1-and-sstl-s1-4-in-september-2018/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 05:00:52 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=10029 India’s Antrix Corporation Limited, the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has signed an agreement with the UK’s Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL), for the launch of NovaSAR-1, a small Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite, into a 580-kilometer altitude Sun-synchronous orbit, and SSTL S1-4, a high-resolution Earth observation satellite.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/02/indonesia-build-earth-observation-constellation-develop-space-launch-capability/ Tue, 13 Feb 2018 06:00:17 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=7467 The head of the Indonesian National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN – Lembaga Penerbangan dan Antariksa Nasional) announced in Singapore that his country intends to build and launch two Earth observation microsatellites by 2020, and that Indonesia still has ambitions to develop its own space launch capability. Prof. Dr. Thomas Djamaluddin, the Head of […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/02/uks-surrey-satellite-lease-earth-observation-satellite-chinas-21at/ Thu, 08 Feb 2018 06:00:31 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=7394 Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL), located in Guildford, Surrey, in the U.K., has signed a GBP25 million (approximately U.S.$34.8 million) deal with China’s Twenty First Century Aerospace Technology Co. Ltd. (21AT) for the lease of the SSTL-S1 Earth observation satellite. SSTL-S1 is due to be launched on an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Polar Satellite […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/12/surrey-satellite-ships-carbonite-2-telesats-leo-1-pslv-launch/ Fri, 01 Dec 2017 05:00:06 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=6497 Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has shipped two small satellites, CARBONITE-2 and LEO-1, to India in preparation for a late December launch on a Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from the Sriharikota launch site. LEO-1 will be one of two Telesat Phase 1 satellites planned for launch this year that […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2016/08/algerias-alsat-nano-prepared-early-september-launch-india/ Wed, 10 Aug 2016 07:00:04 +0000 http://spacewatchme.com/?p=1143 Algeria’s AlSat-Nano is being readied for launch sometime between late August and early September 2016 from the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Andhra Pradesh on the eastern coast of India. AlSat-Nano is sharing the launch into orbit on an ISRO Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) with ISRO’s INSAT-3DR, a meteorological […]]]>