PSLV C-45 Credits: ISRO | Photo Credit: Twitter

After recently achieving a historic feat of testing an Anti-Satellite (ASAT) Missile under Mission Shakti, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is all set to launch Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-C45 tomorrow i.e April 1. It will be ISRO’s first PSLV mission with satellites launching in three different orbits.

PSLV will have an advanced electronic intelligence satellite - EMISAT and 28 other international satellites, onboard.

The EMISAT is based on the space agency’s Mini Satellite-2 (IMS-2) bus platforms while the 28 onboard international satellites originate from Spain, Lithuania, Switzerland and the United States.

The PSLV-C45 is the first satellite to use solar panels in the fourth stage rocket (PS4). Earlier its launch was set for March 21 but to ensure system readiness, the launch was postponed to next month. Now ISRO is all set to release PSLC-C45 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota on April 1 at 9:30 am.

To remind our readers, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)- 44 was launched earlier this year on January 24 which successfully inserted both Microsat-R and Kalamsat-V2 satellites into its aimed orbit locations.

ISRO via tweet said, “An evening in Sriharikota! All set for the launch of PSLVC45 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on April 1 at 09:30 am (IST). Onboard EMISAT and 28 foreign satellites. Our updates will continue.”

Under the mission, the PSLV C-45 will host three payloads, one from ISRO- Automatic Identification System (AIS), one from India- Automatic Packet Repeating System (APRS) from Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) and the last one from Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST).

Further, the space agency later next month will also introduce India’s second lunar/moon mission Chandrayaan-2 on board GSLV-MK III rocket.