Our Pride: ISRO Launched The PSLV Rocket For The 50th Time Since 1994

A couple of days ago, India successfully launched the PSLV-C48 from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, at 3:25 PM.

The rocket carried the country’s RISAT-2BR1, its fourth radar imaging earth observation satellite, and nine other satellites from the US, Israel, Italy, and Japan.

But this launch is also special because it is the 50th flight of the PSLV as well as the 48th flight that’s been successful since its first trip into space 25 years ago.

RISAT-2BR1 is able to capture clearer images and at a faster speed compared with previous variants. This satellite can provide help in many different fields, which include disaster management support, agriculture, and forestry. In addition, it can work with the remote sensing satellite Cartosat-3, which was launched in November, for military reconnaissance.

K Sivan, ISRO Chairman, expressed his happiness while declaring that the 50th flight of the PSLV has successfully injected the RISAT-2BR1 in an orbit at 576 kilometers from Earth. Not only is this the 50th successful flight, but the mission also marks the 75th launch conducted in Sriharikota.

Sivan added that up to now, the rocket has carried a total payload of 52.7 tonnes, 17 percent of which was customer satellites.

Talking about the capability of the PSLV as well as the orbits it has covered over the years, the chairman further said that PSLV has sent satellites to Mars and Moon, launched satellites into geosynchronous transfer orbit, polar orbit, and low-earth orbit. And now, the space agency will send the satellite to the Sun, he stressed.

In the next five years, ISRO has the plan to make another 50 flights into space.