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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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