Come September 9, and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going to achieve a major milestone in its illustrious space voyage so far.
It is none other than ther research agency's hundredth mission, which would witness the launch of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C21), which would carry two foreign satellites, from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
"We have two capsules, a remote sensing satellite from France and a small Japanese satellite will be the co-passenger. Preparations are going on. We plan to have the launch in the second week of September," ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan was quoted saying recently.
The launch will have the 720-kg SPOT-6, an advanced French remote-sensing satellite built by ASTRIUM SAS, and the Proiteres, a 15-kg Japanese spacecraft.
So far, ISRO has been involved in 62 satellite missions and 37 launch vehicles.
The PSLV can launch satellites weighing 1,600 kg in the 620-km sun-synchronous polar orbit, and those weighing 1,050 kg in the geosynchronous orbit. It is 44.4 metres tall and has lift-off weight of 295 tonnes. Equipped with a four-stage mechanism, it uses solid and liquid propulsion systems alternately.
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