{"id":1241,"date":"2023-04-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/24-04-2023\/pslv-c55-teleos-2-mission\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T00:00:00","slug":"pslv-c55-teleos-2-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/24-04-2023\/pslv-c55-teleos-2-mission","title":{"rendered":"PSLV-C55\/TeLEOS-2 Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong><u>In News<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">PSLV-C55\/TeLEOS-2 was launched successfully from SDSC-SHAR, Sriharikota.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong><u>About the Mission\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">The PSLV-C55 mission is a dedicated commercial mission through NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), with TeLEOS-2 as the primary satellite and Lumelite-4 as a co-passenger satellite.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/li>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">Both belong to Singapore.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">They are intended to be launched into an Eastward low inclination orbit.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">PSLV-C55 mission will carry out in-orbit scientific experiments by using the spent PS4 stage as an orbital platform.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong><u>TeLEOS-2<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><u> <\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong><u>satellite: It <\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">is developed under a partnership between DSTA (representing the Government of Singapore) and ST Engineering.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/li>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">It will be used to support the satellite imagery requirements of various agencies within the Government of Singapore.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">It carries a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">It will be able to provide all-weather day and night coverage.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In News \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 PSLV-C55\/TeLEOS-2 was launched successfully from SDSC-SHAR, Sriharikota. About the Mission\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 The PSLV-C55 mission is a dedicated commercial mission through NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), with TeLEOS-2 as the primary satellite and Lumelite-4 as a co-passenger satellite. \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Both belong to Singapore.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 They are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,42,43,29],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-gs-3","tag-literature","tag-space","tag-thehindu"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/07\/1354633Screenshot_6.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}