GSLV Mk-3 Rocket
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Indian space agency ISRO (ISRO) launched the LAWM3-M2/NAWEB INDIA-1 mission at 12.07 pm on Sunday night from Satish Dhawan Space Center (SDSC) in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. The heavy lift rocket GSLV Mk-3 has been renamed as LVM3 M2. It has 36 ‘OneWeb’ satellites. The 43.5 meter long and weighing 644 ton LVM 3 M2 rocket has been launched from the pad of India’s Rocket Port in Sriharikota.
With this launch, India is cementing its place in the global market for launching commercial satellites. These satellites, being carried by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on rocket LVM3, belong to London-based communications firm OneWeb, in which India’s Bharti Enterprises is a major investor. In an earlier launch as a global low-cost provider of space services, ISRO in June 2017 launched 31 small satellites, many of them from European countries. In June 2017 before the launch of 31 small satellites, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that “we reached Mars on a budget less than a Hollywood film”.
first commercial satellite launch
This is the first commercial satellite launch of the rocket LVM3. The contract for this was signed between London-based firm OneWeb and NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), a central government company. The Indian space agency’s newest and heaviest rocket can carry a four-tonne class satellite, which is equivalent to the weight of a large flatbed truck.
#WATCH , ISRO launches LVM3-M2/OneWeb India-1 Mission from Satish Dhawan Space Center (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota
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Another launch possible
Actually ISRO has a deal with OneWeb. He will do two such launches. That is, after this launch there is to be another launch. Another set of 36 OneWeb satellites will be launched by LVM3 in the first half of next year, an NSIL executive said. These satellites will be deployed in low earth orbit. These are broadband communication satellites. Whose name is OneWeb Leo.
Fifth launch of this rocket
It is worth noting that earlier in the year 2019, Chandrayaan-2 (Chandrayaan-2), GSAT-2 in 2018, GSAT-1 in 2017 and before that in 2014, carried the Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment (CARE). . All these missions were associated with the Government of India, but this is the first time that a private company’s satellite is going in this rocket. So far, four launches have been done with this rocket. All four have been successful. This is its fifth launch.