ISRO WILL CARRY OUT THE FIRST SPACE LAUNCH THIS YEAR ON FEBRUARY 14

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The launch of the PSLV C-52 satellite should take place from the launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Center on the island of Sriharikota in the Bay of Bengal

The Indian Space & Research Organisation (ISRO) has scheduled the launch of the PSLV C-52 satellite to observe the Earth's surface on February 14. It will be the first spacecraft launched in India in 2022, the Hindu newspaper reported on Wednesday.


The launch of the satellite should take place from the launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Center on the island of Sriharikota in the Bay of Bengal.


PSLV C-52 with a launch weight of 1,170 kg will be launched into a sun-synchronous polar orbit with an altitude of 529 km. The satellite is designed for radar imaging and transmission of high-quality images of the earth's surface in the interests of the Indian Ministry of Agriculture.


As previously reported by the Minister of State of Science and Technology of India Jitendra Singh, in 2022 ISRO plans to produce 19 space missions, including the launch of eight launch vehicles with seven spacecraft and four devices for technology demonstration.


In August of this year, India plans to launch the third lunar mission "Chandrayaan-3", the launch of which was postponed several times due to the coronavirus pandemic.


The first Indian lunar automatic station "Chandrayaan-1" was launched into orbit of the Earth's satellite in November 2008. The device worked until August 2009. The second mission "Chandrayaan-2" was sent to the Moon in July 2019 and provided not only for the launch of the device into orbit, but also for the soft landing of the Vikram descent module, which was supposed to deliver a small lunar rover Pragyan to the surface of the earth's satellite. But on September 7 of the same year, when Vikram was at an altitude of 2.1 km above the lunar surface, communication with it was lost, and the lander crashed on impact with the lunar surface. At the same time, the Chandrayaan-2 orbital station continues to work in the orbit of the Moon. ISRO plans to use it in the Chandrayaan-3 mission.

 

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