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.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
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