ISRO attempts mega world record

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com


09:32 AM (IST), Feb 15
The performance of the PSLV-C37 is absolutely normal so far.
09:28 AM (IST), Feb 15
Isro's PSLV carrying over 104 satellites lifts off from Sriharikota launch pad.
09:27 AM (IST), Feb 15
Final countdown begins for the launch of PSLV-C37 carrying a record 104 satellites including India's earth observation satellite Cartosat-2series and 101 foreign nano satellites.
09:18 AM (IST), Feb 15
10 minutes to go for the launch of PSLV-C37 carrying a record 104 satellites including India's earth observation satellite Cartosat-2series and 101 foreign nano satellites.
09:14 AM (IST), Feb 15
Mission director authorises launch of PSLV-C37 carrying a record 104 satellites including India's earth observation satellite Cartosat-2series and 101 foreign nano satellites.
09:09 AM (IST), Feb 15
Eighty-eight of the American satellites belong to a San Francisco based start-up company Planet Inc which is sending a swarm of small 4.7 kg each satellite it calls 'Doves'. This constellation will image earth like never before and with a high repeat rate providing satellite imagery at an affordable cost.
09:09 AM (IST), Feb 15
20 minutes to go for the launch of PSLV-C37 carrying a record 104 satellites including Cartosat-2 series, India's earth observation satellite, at Sriharikota.
09:02 AM (IST), Feb 15
What follows next is a trailblazing performance by the PSLV when at an altitude of over 500 km in space it will release from its womb, 101 co-passengers one each from Israel, Kazakhstan, The Netherlands, Switzerland, the UAE and a whopping 96 from the US. It is only recently American private companies have warmed up to ISRO as India offers cheap and reliable option
09:02 AM (IST), Feb 15
This earth imaging capability is not unusual but the rest of the passengers are unique. There are two small Indian satellites each weighing less than 10 kg that are forerunners of a new class of satellites called ISRO Nano Satellites which the engineers seek to master.
09:02 AM (IST), Feb 15
The first to be let off will be India's high resolution Cartosat-2 series satellite made especially to monitor activities of India's hostile neighbours at a resolution of less than a metre keeping a bird's eye view on both Pakistan and China.
09:01 AM (IST), Feb 15
The two Indian nano-satellites are Isro's INS-1A and INS-1B. INS-1A and INS-1B will carry a total of four different payloads from Space Applications Centre (SAC) and Laboratory for Electro Optics Systems (LEOS) of Isro for conducting various experiments
09:01 AM (IST), Feb 15
Isro said the co-passenger satellites comprise 101 nano-satellites, one each from Israel, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and 96 from United States of America (USA), as well as two from India.
08:46 AM (IST), Feb 15
Isro chairman AS Kiran Kumar and other top scientists arrive at the mission control centre at Sriharikota.
08:14 AM (IST), Feb 15
The 101 international customer nano-satellites are being launched as part of the commercial arrangements between Antrix Corporation Limited (Antrix), the commercial arm of Isro and the international customers.
08:13 AM (IST), Feb 15
No other country has ever tried to hit a century in a single mission. The last world record is held by Russia which in 2014 rocketed 37 satellites in a single launch using a modified inter-continental ballistic missile.
08:07 AM (IST), Feb 15
With an eye on Venus and Mars, ISRO attempts mega world record
India will boldly go to Venus for the first time and re-visit the Red Planet very soon. Buried and hidden in the hundreds of pages of the new format electronic budget documents, is the first formal acknowledgement by the government about these two new bold inter-planetary sojourns to Earth's immediate neighbours.
07:47 AM (IST), Feb 15
PSLV-C37 on the eve of its launch is Sriharikota.

07:47 AM (IST), Feb 15
Isro set to cross century, create history
All 104 satellites will be deployed in a 505km polar sun synchronous orbit at rapid intervals in a span of 28 minutes.
07:46 AM (IST), Feb 15
An Isro official told TOI that the mission called for a considerable amount of precision as the challenge lay in deploying the satellites in a way they do not collide. "After lift-off, the first satellite to go into orbit will be the indigenous Cartosat-2 series followed by two Isro nanosatellites," he said
07:46 AM (IST), Feb 15
The much-awaited launch which has attracted not only interest within the country, but abroad as well, is scheduled for 9.28am at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. The rocket for the record-breaking mission is the advanced version of the four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle designated PSLV-Xl.
07:44 AM (IST), Feb 15
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, in its 39th flight (PSLV-C37), will launch the 714 kg Cartosat-2 series satellite for earth observation along with 103 co-passenger satellites, together weighing about 664 kg at lift off.
07:44 AM (IST), Feb 15
Isro's workhorse PSLV will carry a record 104 satellites in a single mission today from the space centre at Sriharikota Andhra Pradesh.