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States » SouthPosted at: Feb 12 2021 12:48PM


NSIL's first commercial mission : PSLV-C51 to launch Brazil's Amazonia-1, 20 other satellites on Feb 28

Chennai, Feb 12 (UNI) In its first dedicated commercial mission
of the newly-formed NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), the ISRO
would be launch Brazil's Amazonia-1 and 20 other satellites from
the spaceport of Sriharikota on February 28.
ISRO on Friday said the satellites would be launched using the
Space Agency's workhorse launch vehicle PSLV-C51 at 1023 hrs
on February 28, subject to weather conditions.
''PSLVC51 is the first dedicated commercial launch mission of
NSIL. Amazonia1, the primary satellite of this mission, will be
the first Brazilian satellite to be launched from India'', ISRO
tweeted.
Amazonia-1 is the optical earth observation satellite of National
Institute for Space Research (INPE).
This satellite would further strengthen the existing structure by
providing remote sensing data to users for monitoring deforestation
in the Amazon region and analysis of diversified agriculture across
the Brazilian territory.
The 20 co-passenger satellites included one from ISRO (INS-2TD),
four from IN-SPACe (three UNITYsats from consortium of three
Indian academic institutes and One Satish Dhawan Sat from Space
Kidz India) and 15 from NSIL.
PSLV-C51 will be the 53rd mission of PSLV.
PSLV-C51/Amazonia-1 is the first dedicated commercial mission of
NSIL, a Government of India company under Department of Space.
NSIL is undertaking this mission under a commercial arrangement
with Spaceflight Inc. USA.
This would be the first mission for ISRO in 2021 and 78th launch
vehicle mission from SDSC SHAR.
It's earlier mission was PSLV-C50, which had successfully launched
India’s communication satellite CMS-01 from the Satish Dhawan Space
Centre SHAR, on December 17, 2020.
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