India successfully launches Earth observation satellite plus 12 cubesats
India today successfully used its PSLV rocket to launch its own Cartosat-3 Earth observation satellite plus 12 cubesats for the commercial company Planet.
This was India’s fifth launch in 2019.
The leaders in the 2019 launch race remain unchanged:
26 China
18 Russia
11 SpaceX
7 Europe (Arianespace)
China leads the U.S. 26 to 23 in the national rankings.
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India today successfully used its PSLV rocket to launch its own Cartosat-3 Earth observation satellite plus 12 cubesats for the commercial company Planet.
This was India’s fifth launch in 2019.
The leaders in the 2019 launch race remain unchanged:
26 China
18 Russia
11 SpaceX
7 Europe (Arianespace)
China leads the U.S. 26 to 23 in the national rankings.
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Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuses to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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This version is extremely well done; lots of telemetry, animation, and coherent call-outs in English. Unfortunately it looked to be a cloudy day so very little actual rocket-in-flight video.
PSLV-C47 launch
Doordarshan National
https://youtu.be/LjFK5Ggwpis
1:19:38
interesting factoid;
“Cartosat-3’s cameras offers a ground resolution of 25cm at 500km.”
Hi, Bob,
The Ariane website lists eight launches in 2019, you list seven. Why the difference; did one fail? Thanks.
BreakofGauge: One did fail, a Vega launch on July 11. I only count successful launches.
Wayne:
Watched the video; thanks for the link. I don’t think I’ve watched an Indian launch before, and a little surprised to see that the launch vehicle is the smallest structure on the pad. Gets the job done, though.
Blair-
–Har, definitely has that Fireball XL5 motif going on.
–Coverage was from Indian Public Television and they did an excellent job.
pivoting….
A Day of Thanksgiving 1951
Centron Films Lawrence Kansas
https://youtu.be/HocXg3soHZM
12:20