ISRO staff transporting the nose cone of a rocket on bicycle:
https://twitter.com/prasarbharati/status/831786401620451330/...
PSLV-C37 Successfully Launches 104 Satellites in a Single Flight
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Re: PSLV-C37 Successfully Launches 104 Satellites in a Single Flight
#32is anyone else concerned about countries deploying their own satelittes to archieve the same thing? Doesnt the orbit get crowded?
Re: PSLV-C37 Successfully Launches 104 Satellites in a Single Flight
#33is anyone else concerned about countries deploying their own satelittes to archieve the same thing? Doesnt the orbit get crowded?
Remember majority of satellites on this flight didn't belong to just India.
Re: PSLV-C37 Successfully Launches 104 Satellites in a Single Flight
#34is anyone else concerned about countries deploying their own satelittes to archieve the same thing? Doesnt the orbit get crowded?
Out of the total 104 satellites, 101 satellites belong to six foreign countries. They include 96 from the US and one each from Israel, the UAE, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Kazakhstan.
> Doesnt the orbit get crowded?
Hope you'll have the answer here: http://www.popsci.com/space-junk-why-cant-we-see-satellites-...
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#35Re: PSLV-C37 Successfully Launches 104 Satellites in a Single Flight
#36Launch video, including onboard footage of stage seperations and satellite deploys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQMCw-jMQlo
Re: PSLV-C37 Successfully Launches 104 Satellites in a Single Flight
#37Launch video, including onboard footage of stage seperations and satellite deploys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQMCw-jMQlo
That's fantastic. Thank you.
Re: PSLV-C37 Successfully Launches 104 Satellites in a Single Flight
#38is anyone else concerned about countries deploying their own satelittes to archieve the same thing? Doesnt the orbit get crowded?
Satellites are expensive, people rarely deploy them for fun. If an existing satellite offered the same functionality people would likely license data/airtime/what-have-you from the operator of that satellite rather than launching their own.
As long as their orbital information is properly registered and they have a proper end-of-life plan for them there's little risk in deploying new satellites; if you want to get concerned about crowding the orbits, China deliberately blowing up a satellite a couple of years ago was much more problematic.
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#39Inspiring ISRO. Anytime.
Really inspiring. They've perfected their craft.
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#40Wish the 11th President of India Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam were here to witness this! He was the project director of India's first Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-III) which successfully deployed the Rohini satellite in near-earth orbit in July 1980. Between the 1970's and 1990's, Dr. Kalam made an effort to develop the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and SLV-III projects, both of which proved to be successful.
He would have been so proud. He was such an inspirational figure. When I was a kid my father used to tell me to be like Kalam.