{"id":14148,"date":"2021-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/01-03-2021\/pslv-c51-amazonia-1-mission\/"},"modified":"2021-03-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T00:00:00","slug":"pslv-c51-amazonia-1-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/01-03-2021\/pslv-c51-amazonia-1-mission","title":{"rendered":"PSLV-C51\/Amazonia-1 Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In News<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>India&#8217;s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C51<\/strong> successfully launched <strong>Amazonia-1 <\/strong>along with 18 co-passenger satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>PSLV-C51 is the <strong>53rd flight of PSLV and the 3rd flight of PSLV in &#8216;DL&#8217; configuration (with 2 strap-on motors). <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was also the first dedicated mission for<strong> New Space India Ltd (NSIL)<\/strong>, the commercial arm of ISRO.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cfstatic.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/file_library\/mix_content\/859628989670867600_image.png\" style=\"height:614px; margin-left:100px; margin-right:100px; width:615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>About<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amazonia-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a 637-kg <strong>optical earth observation satellite <\/strong>of the National Institute for Space Research.<\/li>\n<li>It is powered by<strong> lithium-ion batteries and two solar arrays<\/strong>. It has an <strong>850km swath and 60m resolution.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose:<\/strong> It will offer <strong>remote sensing data <\/strong>to<strong> users for monitoring deforestation<\/strong> in the <strong>Amazon region of Brazil <\/strong>including the <strong>analysis of diversified agriculture<\/strong> in the <strong>South American country.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong> It is the first dedicated <strong>commercial mission of New Space India Limited (NSIL)<\/strong>, a Government of India company under the Department of Space.\n<ul>\n<li>It became the <strong>first Brazilian satellite<\/strong> to be launched from India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The 18 co-passenger satellites <\/strong>onboard <strong>PSLV-C51 includes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>US<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Out of the <strong>13 satellites from the U.S.<\/strong>, one was a <strong>technology demonstration satellite<\/strong> and the <strong>remaining for 2-way communications and data relay.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>From India<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Five satellites<\/strong> belong to <strong>India including the Satish Dhawan SAT (SDSAT)<\/strong> built by Space Kidz India, a nano-<strong>satellite intended to study the radiation levels, space weather<\/strong> and<strong> demonstrate long-range communication technologies, <\/strong>and the <strong>UNITYsat, a combination of three satellites<\/strong> intended for providing r<strong>adio relay services.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>UNITYsat was designed and built as a joint development<\/strong> by the Jeppiar Institute of Technology, Sriperumbudur, G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur and Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore<\/li>\n<li><strong>Relevance for india:<\/strong>This particular mission is <strong>special because these five Indian satellites<\/strong> are coming under the <strong>new space reform <\/strong>announced by the Government of India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width:735px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background-color:#fff2cc; width:468.0pt\">\n<p><strong>About Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>third generation launch vehicle of India<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is the<strong> first Indian launch vehicle<\/strong> to be<strong> equipped with liquid stages.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>After its first successful launch in October 1994, PSLV emerged as the reliable and <strong>versatile workhorse launch<\/strong> vehicle of India with <strong>39 consecutively successful missions by June 2017. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The vehicle successfully launched two spacecraft \u2013<strong> Chandrayaan-1 in 2008 <\/strong>and Mars <strong>Orbiter Spacecraft in 2013 <\/strong>\u2013 that later travelled to<strong> Moon and Mars respectively<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Difference:<\/strong> PSLV was developed to launch low-Earth Orbit satellites into polar and sun synchronous orbits whereas GSLV was developed to launch the heavier INSAT class of geosynchronous satellites into orbit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/isro-rocket-pslv-c51-brazil-amazonia-1-satellites-7208092\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source: IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In News India&#8217;s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C51 successfully launched Amazonia-1 along with 18 co-passenger satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. PSLV-C51 is the 53rd flight of PSLV and the 3rd flight of PSLV in &#8216;DL&#8217; configuration (with 2 strap-on motors). 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