ISRO to launch seven Singaporean satellites

NewSpace India Limited has procured PSLV-C56 to deploy the DS-SAR satellite from DSTA & ST Engineering, Singapore and 6 co-passenger satellites

Bengaluru: India would launch PSLV-C56 carrying DS-SAR satellite from Singapore, along with six co-passengers, from the first launchpad of the ISRO‘s Sriharikota spaceport at 6.30 am on July 30.

The DS-SAR satellite is developed under a partnership between Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) (representing the Government of Singapore) and ST Engineering.

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Once deployed and operational, it will be used to support the satellite imagery requirements of various agencies within the Government of Singapore. ST Engineering will use it for multi-modal and higher responsiveness imagery and geospatial services for their commercial customers.

DS-SAR carries a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). This allows the DS-SAR to provide for all-weather day and night coverage, and capable of imaging at one metre resolution at full polarimetry.

The NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), a central public sector undertaking under the Department of Space, procured the PSLV-C56 to deploy the 360-kg DS-SAR satellite from DSTA & ST Engineering, Singapore, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the national space agency headquartered here, tweeted on Monday.

🇮🇳PSLV-C56🚀/🇸🇬DS-SAR satellite 🛰️ Mission:
The launch is scheduled for
📅 July 30, 2023
⏲️ 06:30 Hrs. IST
🚩First launch pad SDSC-SHAR, Sriharikota. @NSIL_India has procured PSLV-C56 to deploy the DS-SAR satellite from DSTA & ST Engineering, Singapore

and 6 co-passenger… pic.twitter.com/q42eR9txT7

— ISRO (@isro) July 24, 2023

The six co-passenger satellites are: VELOX-AM, a technology demonstration microsatellite, Atmospheric Coupling and Dynamics Explorer (ARCADE), an experimental satellite, SCOOB-II , a 3U nanosatellite flying a technology demonstrator payload, NuLIoN by NuSpace, an advanced 3U nanosatellite enabling seamless IoT connectivity in both urban & remote locations, Galassia-2, a 3U nanosatellite that will be orbiting at low earth orbit, and ORB-12 STRIDER, satellite developed under an International collaboration, according to Bengaluru-headquartered ISRO.

The PSLV-C56 is configured in its core-alone mode, similar to that of C55.