SARAL; SAPPHIRE; NEOSSat; 3 cubesat - PSLV-CA C20 - 25.02.2013 12:31 UTC

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июль - SARAL, SAPPHIRE, NEOSSat, UniBRITE, BRITE-AUSTRIA, AAUSat3 - PSLV-С20 (CA)

http://spaceref.ca/isro/canadian-satellites-launch-on-indias-pslv-c20-delayed-again.html

Canadian Satellites Launch on India's PSLV-C20 Delayed Again

By Marc Boucher
Posted March 20, 2012 5:46 PM

Canada's long awaited launch of the NEOSSat and Sapphire satellites will have to wait a little longer, slipping into a Q3 launch, with an anticipated earliest launch date of mid-July.

India is scheduled to launch the PSLV-C19 rocket no earlier than April 15th with the joint French-India RISAT-1 satellite. Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of India's space program normally takes three months preparing between launches. Assuming there are no problems with the PSLV-C19 launch or preparations for the PSLV-C20 launch, then a mid-July launch seems possible.

NEOSSat will be the first space telescope dedicated to the search for near-Earth asteroids. NEOSSat is the result of a university-industry collaboration and will spend half the time looking for these small interplanetary objects that could potentially impact the Earth and cause great damage. NEOSSat will spend the other half of its time searching for satellites and space debris in orbit around the Earth in a research project sponsored by a DND agency, Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC).

Sapphire is the Department of National Defence (DND) first dedicated military satellite and will upgrade Canada's space surveillance capabilities.

Also launching on the PSLV-C20 rocket are the Canadian built CanX-3b (aka TUGSAT-1) and CanX-3a (aka UniBRITE) nanosatellites. Both of these nanosatellites we're built by the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies Space Flight Laboratory.

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http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/saral.htm

SARAL


SARAL [ISRO]

An ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) satellite, SARAL (Satellite with ARgos and ALtika), will embark the AltiKa altimeter (working in Ka-band, 35 GHz), built by CNES, as well as a Doris instrument. Signal frequencies in the Ka-band will enable better observation of ice, rain, coastal zones, land masses (forests, etc.), and wave heights.

The Saral mission is complementary to Jason-2. Its objectives are:

To realize precise, repetitive global measurements of sea surface height, significant wave heights and wind speed for
developping operational oceanography;
understanding of climate and developing
forecasting capabilities;
operational meteorology.
To ensure, from 2009, in association with Jason-2, the continuity of the service given today by the altimeters onboard Envisat and Jason-1,
To answer the need expressed by the ocean and climate study international programs, and contribute to the building of a global ocean observing system.

The proposed payload integrates :

a high-resolution AltiKa altimeter, that includes a bi-frequency radiometric function,
the Doris precise orbitography system, in association with a laser retroflector (LRA).

The launch of this mission is planned for the end of 2009, with a life of 3 years (2 year for the nominal phase, and one year for the extended phase). This mission is a cooperation between CNES and ISRO.

SARAL payload is being planned to be accommodated in the mini-satellite bus in the 400-450 kg class, named as SSB-1. The bus is being developed miniaturising the currently proven operational mainframe subsystems. SARAL satellite mission is planned to be launched during late-2009 into a sun-synchronous, 6 am-6 pm orbit at an altitude of around 800 km. SARAL will provide Data Products to the operational and research user communities, in support of Marine meteorology and sea state forecasting; Operational oceanography; Seasonal forecasting; Climate monitoring; and Ocean, Earth system and climate research.

Nation:       India, France
Type / Application:       Earth Science
Operator:       ISRO, CNES
Contractors:       ISRO, CNES
Equipment:       ARGOS, ALTIKA
Configuration:       Minisatellite-SSB (SSB-1)
Propulsion:      
Power:       2 deployable solar arrays, batteries
Lifetime:       3 years
Mass:       346 kg
Orbit:       800 km

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http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/sapphire_cnd.htm

Sapphire


Sapphire [MDA]

Sapphire is a key element of the Canadian Space Surveillance System, and will be a contributing sensor to the US Space Surveillance Network. It is a space-based electrooptical sensor that will provide accurate and timely tracking data to the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) on manmade and natural objects in medium to high Earth orbits at orbit altitudes between 6,000 km and 40,000 km. The data collected will be processed by a ground-based system and the results will be used to update the U.S. Satellite Catalogue that is used by both NORAD and Canada to provide space situational awareness.

Canada's Department of National Defence (DND) awarded MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) in October 2007 a contract to deliver an information solution called Sapphire for the surveillance of space objects. Sapphire is DND's first dedicated space mission and will support Canada's NORAD commitments with the delivery of critical information.

MDA will lead a team comprised of COMDEV of Cambridge, Ontario, and SSTL of Surrey, England. The four-year contract has the potential for a future extension for mission support, operations, and maintenance. It follows a design phase previously awarded to MDA.

Sapphire will use a small Three Mirror Anastigmat (TMA) telescope similar in design to the Space Based Visible sensor on the US MSX satellite. The optical sensor will consist of a 15 cm telescope and will have a 1.4 deg field of view to observe man-made objects in deep space (6,000 – 40,000 km altitude). The satellite will be in a sun-synchronous, dawn-dusk orbit. The satellite's telescope will point away from the sun so it can observe objects with an aspect that provides the maximum amount of reflected sunlight (best possible phase angle).

The ideal orbit for a space-based space surveillance sensor such as Sapphire is a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of approximately 750 km, and a Local Time of Ascending Node of 06:00.

Nation:       Canada
Type / Application:       Space Surveilance
Operator:       Department of National Defence (DND)
Contractors:       MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) (Prime), SSTL (Bus)
Equipment:      
Configuration:       SSTL-150
Propulsion:      
Power:       Solar cells, batteries
Lifetime:      
Mass:       ~150 kg
Orbit:       750 km SSO

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http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/neossat.htm

NEOSSAT


NEOSSAT [CSA]

Canada is building the world's first space telescope designed to detect and track asteroids as well as satellites. Called NEOSSat (Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite), this spacecraft will provide a significant improvement in surveillance of asteroids that pose a collision hazard with Earth and innovative technologies for tracking satellites in orbit high above our planet.

Weighing in at a mere 65-kilograms, this dual-use $12-million mission builds upon Canada's expertise in compact "microsatellite" design. NEOSSat will be the size of a large suitcase, and is cost-effective because of its small size and ability to "piggyback" on the launch of other spacecraft. The mission is funded by Defence Research Development Canada (DRDC) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). Together CSA and DRDC formed a Joint Project Office to manage the NEOSSat design, construction and launch phases. NEOSSat is expected to be launched into space in 2010. The two projects that will use NEOSSat are HEOSS (High Earth Orbit Space Surveillance) and the NESS (Near Earth Space Surveillance) asteroid search program.

NEOSSat is the first follow up mission to the groundbreaking MOST (Microvariability and Oscillation of STars) spacecraft, a 60-kilogram satellite designed to measure the age of stars in our galaxy. NEOSSat also marks the first project using Canada's Multi-Mission Microsatellite Bus. CSA's Space Technology branch launched the Multi-Mission Bus project to capitalize on technology developed for the MOST project by making it adaptable to future satellite missions.

The HEOSS project will demonstrate how a microsatellite could contribute to the Space Surveillance Network (SSN), a network of ground based telescopes and radars located around the world. Until the 1980s, Canada contributed to the SSN with two ground-based telescopes in eastern and western Canada. The fact that HEOSS will be a space-based capability on a microsatellite represents an exciting enhancement to the contribution and offers significant advantages to the SSN. Ground-based sensors' tracking opportunities are constrained by their geographic location and the day-night cycle. In Sun-synchronous orbit around our planet, NEOSSat will offer continuous tracking opportunities and the ability to track satellites in a wide variety of orbit locations.

Although NEOSSat's 15-centimeter telescope is smaller than most amateur astronomers', its location approximately 700 kilometers above Earth's atmosphere will give it a huge advantage in searching the blackness of space for faint signs of moving asteroids. Twisting and turning hundreds of times each day, orbiting from pole to pole every 50 minutes, and generating power from the Sun, NEOSSat will send dozens of images to the ground each time it passes over Canada. Due to the ultra-low sky background provided by the vacuum of space, NEOSSat will be able to detect asteroids delivering as few as 50 photons of light in a 100-second exposure.

Nation:       Canada
Type / Application:       Astronomy
Operator:       CSA
Contractors:       Microsat Systems Canada Inc. (MSCI)
Equipment:       15 cm telescope, photometer
Configuration:       Multi-Mission Microsatellite Bus
Propulsion:       None
Power:       Solar cells, batteries
Lifetime:      
Mass:       65 kg
Orbit:       700 km

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http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/unibrite.htm

UniBRITE (CanX 3A)


UniBRITE (CanX 3A) [UTIAS]

CanX-3 (Canadian Advanced Nanospace eXperiments), also known as BRITE (BRIght-star Target Explorer), is a mission planned to make photometric observations of some of the brightest starts in the sky in order to examine these stars for variability. The observations will have a precision at least 10 times better than achievable using ground-based observations, and it will be packaged inside a CanX-class nanosatellite.

The Principal Investigator for the BRITE mission is Professor Anthony F. J. Moffat Département de physique, Université de Montréal. The Austrian Co-Principal Investigator is Professor Werner W. Weiss, University of Vienna.

The design is a 20 cm cube, chosen to accommodate the main telescope. It leverages a number of technologies qualified on CanX-2 and incorporates SFL's high-performance attitude control system, using reaction wheels developed in collaboration with Sinclair Interplanetary.

With the support of ETech a preliminary design for BRITE has been completed. At the present time, the components to be integrated into the science instrument are being evaluated at UTIAS/SFL; this stage of the work is supported by the Canadian Space Agency.

Nation:    Austria, Canada
Type / Application:    Astronomy / Technology
Operator:    UTIAS (University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies)
Contractors:    UTIAS
Equipment:    
Configuration:    Generic Nanosatellite Bus (GNB)
Propulsion:    
Power:    Solar cells, batteries
Lifetime:    
Mass:    10 kg

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http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/tugsat-1.htm

TUGsat 1 (BRITE-Austria, CanX 3B)


TUGsat 1 (BRITE-Austria) [TU-Graz]

TUGSat 1 (Technische Universität Graz Satellit), also known as BRITE-Austria (BRIght-star Target Explorer - Austria), is a mission planned to make photometric observations of some of the brightest starts in the sky in order to examine these stars for variability. The observations will have a precision at least 10 times better than achievable using ground-based observations, and it will be packaged inside a CanX-class nanosatellite.

Nation:    Austria, Canada
Type / Application:    Astronomy / Technology
Operator:    Graz University of Technology
Contractors:    Graz University of Technology; UTIAS (bus)
Equipment:    
Configuration:    Generic Nanosatellite Bus (GNB)
Propulsion:    
Power:    Solar cells, batteries
Lifetime:    
Mass:    10 kg

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http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/max-valier.htm

Max Valier


Max Valier

Max Valier is a 10 kg nanosatellite with multiple payloads. It is built in collaboration by the Gewerbeoberschule "Max Valier" Bozen, the Gewerbeoberschule "Oskar von Miller" Meran and the Amateurastronomen "Max Valier". The Max Planck Institut für extraterrestrische Physik Garching provides the small X-ray telescope µRosi, which allows amateur astronmers for the first time to see the sky in X-ray wavelength. OHB-System provides the LuxSpace AIS reciever, support and the launch opportunity on an indian PSLV rocket.

The full attitude controlled satellite will scan the sky for bright X-ray sources (first payload), with an AIS receiver it will receive signals from ships (second payload), and it will capture optical pictures with a CMOS-camera (third payload), and send these to earth.

The X-ray telescope will have scanned the whole sky after half a year. The data will be evaluated and published by amateur astronomers. The spacecraft mechanical design basic idea follows a flat satellite concept with direct integration of spacecraft components and electronic boards into load carrying unibody structure. The spacecraft will have a body mounted non deployable sun pointed solar array.

To achieve effective power generation and solar array sun pointing, the satellite is attitude controlled in 3 axes and spin stabilized in one axis with momentum wheel. The main board controller is fully redundant and a complete proprietary development of the GOB Bozen. It manages the periphery with 8 serial interfaces and numerous further ports. TM-TC and payload data transmission to ground is ensured over radio modems at 70 cm and S-Band with a link rate of 19200 Bd. An amateur radio beacon signal will also be transmitted on the 2 m band. The ground control stations in Bozen and Meran will be used to control the satellite and for the data download. The S-band link will be realized with antennas of a diameter of 3m to achieve a link budget with 16 dB fade margin.
Nation:    Italy
Type / Application:    Astronomy, X-Ray; technology
Operator:    Gewerbeoberschule "Max Valier" Bozen, Gewerbeoberschule "Oskar von Miller" Meran, Amateurastronomen "Max Valier"
Contractors:    Gewerbeoberschule "Max Valier" Bozen, Gewerbeoberschule "Oskar von Miller" Meran, Amateurastronomen "Max Valier"
Equipment:    µRosi X-ray telescope, AIS receiver, CMOS-camera
Configuration:    
Propulsion:    None
Power:    Solar cell, batteries
Lifetime:    
Mass:    10 kg

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http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/aau-cubesat.htm

AAU-Cubesat / AAUSAT 2, 3


AAU-Cubesat [AAU]

The main purpose for the AAU-Cubesat (Aalborg University Cubesat) project is for the involved students to achieve a great deal of knowledge about designing and constructing Space worthy technology, but the "scientific" mission of the AAU-CubeSat is to take pictures of the surface of the Earth and particularly of Denmark by using the on-board camera. The images recorded by the satellite were later transmitted to the ground station, located at Aalborg University, from where they were distributed over the Internet and made accessible for the general public.

Several success criterias have been defined. A basic success criteria in this case is, to develop and build a satellite which is able to survive the launch and the hazardous environment in its orbit. Another success criteria is establishment of a communication link with the ground station informing about the status of the satellite. Finally to point the on board camera towards a specific target on the ground, to take an image and to send this data down to the ground station, represents the final success criteria.

To summarize the above the missions success criterias are the following:

That the involved students have achieved some useful knowledge of space technology.
That communication is established with the satellite and housekeeping information is retrieved.
Take and download any picture.
Test ACS performance.
Take pictures of certain locations on earth.
Take pictures of celestial objects and experiment with the various subsystems.

AAUSAT 2 carried a radiation sensor.

AAUSAT 3 will be built completly inhouse in the university using no Cubseat-kit. It will test an AIS-receiver in orbit.
Nation:       Denmark
Type / Application:       Technology
Operator:       Aalborg University Cubesat
Contractors:       Aalborg University Cubesat
Equipment:       Solar cells, batteries
Configuration:       CubeSat (1U)
Propulsion:       None
Power:       Solar cells, batteries
Lifetime:      
Mass:       1 kg
Orbit:      

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http://www.firstpost.com/india/after-risat-1-isro-announces-two-new-missions-289478.html

PSLV C-20 with Indo French satellite SARAL and four small satellites would be launched in October, 2012 and PSLV C-21 with a commercial payload SPOT, a French satellite on earth observation this August, he said.

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http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=1173.msg932524#msg932524

PSLV-C21 to be launched some time after Aug-15 (India's Independence Day)

No links to provide as the news is not yet in media(will get them as and when available)

Also PSLV-C20(Saffire+SARAL+...) is also getting ready for launch on the other launch pad. Stacking operations have already begun.

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http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/article3721690.ece

According to Veeraraghavan, the space agency would launch SARAL satellite - an Indo-French initiative - using PSLV-C20 rocket sometime in October-November this year.

Agreeing that ISRO normally do not launch any rockets during that period, Veeraraghavan said if the weather is conducive the rocket could be sent up.

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http://newindianexpress.com/nation/article585466.ece

By PTI - BANGALORE

08th August 2012 12:45 PM

"The next launch (after GSAT-10) is going to be another PSLV launch", Radhakrishnan said. "It (SARAL, an Indo-French satellite) is a joint activity in the sense payload is built by France (CNES), satellite is by ISRO and launch is by ISRO".

SARAL will provide data products to operational and research user communities, in support of marine meteorology and sea state forecasting; operational oceanography; seasonal forecasting; climate monitoring; ocean, earth system and climate research, ISRO officials said.

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http://spaceref.ca/isro/canadian-satellites-finally-set-for-launch-on-indian-rocket.html

Canadian Satellites Finally Set For Launch on Indian Rocket

By Marc Boucher
Posted September 5, 2012 10:36 AM

It would appear that several Canadian satellites are finally going to get their launch after years of delays by the Indian Space Research Organization.

India is set to launch the India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C21 rocket this coming Sunday, September 9th with the French Astrium Spot 6 remote sensing satellite as its primary payload with Canada's launch scheduled after it.

SpaceRef has learned that the PSLV-C20 launch which includes Canada's NEOSSat, Sapphire & CanX-3a and CanX-3b satellites is now set for the 1st week of December. Should the launch go ahead in early December it would be four years behind schedule.

NEOSSat will be the first space telescope dedicated to the search for near-Earth asteroids. NEOSSat is the result of a university-industry collaboration and will spend half the time looking for these small interplanetary objects that could potentially impact the Earth and cause great damage. NEOSSat will spend the other half of its time searching for satellites and space debris in orbit around the Earth in a research project sponsored by a DND agency, Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC).

Sapphire is the Department of National Defence (DND) first dedicated military satellite and will upgrade Canada's space surveillance capabilities.

Also launching on the PSLV-C20 rocket are the Canadian built CanX-3b (aka TUGSAT-1) and CanX-3a (aka UniBRITE) nanosatellites. Both of these nanosatellites we're built by the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies Space Flight Laboratory.

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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/isro-to-launch-indo-french-satellite-saral-on-12-12-12/articleshow/16367164.cms

12 Sep, 2012, 04.50PM IST, PTI
ISRO to launch Indo-French satellite SARAL on 12-12-12

Indo-French satellite "SARAL" would be launched onboard PSLV-C20 from the spaceport of Sriharikota on December 12,ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan said
BANGALORE: Indo-French satellite "SARAL" would be launched onboard PSLV-C20 from the spaceport of Sriharikota on December 12, this year, Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman K Radhakrishnan said today.

"PSLV-C20 will be assembled in about 25 days in Sriharikota and the satellite will be launched on December 12, 2012. As somebody said it's 12-12-12 (launch date)," he said at the Bangalore Space Expo 2012 here.

Radhakrishnan also said the European space consortium Arianespace would launch India's GSAT-10 communication satellite from Kourou in French Guiana at 2.30 AM (Indian time) on September 22.

ISRO officials said SARAL is a small satellite mission with payloads -- Argos and Altika -- from French space agency CNES for study of ocean parameters towards enhancing the understanding of the ocean state conditions which are otherwise not covered by the in-situ measurements.

The satellite has been built by ISRO, which would also take care of the launch services.

SARAL will provide data products to operational and research user communities, in support of marine meteorology and sea state forecasting; operational oceanography; seasonal forecasting; climate monitoring; ocean, earth system and climate research, the officials said.

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http://www.space.aau.dk/aausat3/

WE ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE:

AAUSAT3 will leave Denmark on September 23. 2012 heading for SFL in Toronto for final external test before the launch primo December from India riding on PSLV C-20 rocket from ISRO.

More info will come here



AAUSAT3s TRAVEL LOG
120925 Later at SFL Laboratory

All tests now have been conducted, and the spacecraft has been visually as well as technically inspected to have no errors after the tests. Is has been reins erted into the X-pod, all subsystems are rese t and the batteries are topped up. That is, AAUSAT3 is now as ready for launch as it can ever be!
120925 At SFL Laboratory

Things are progressing as expected. Tests has up until now been successful on FM as well as QM. We hope that next news will be that FM is integrated in the POD(deployment unit)
120924 Arrived Toronto SFL

Jesper and Troels on way to first working and testing day at SFL
120923 Aalborg Airport inspecting cubesat box

: Q: What's that ?
: A: It's two satellites on way to launch
: Reaction from security: oh ... well okay :-)

Conclusion: we are traveling to much with satellites :-)

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http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pslv-to-launch-5-foreign-satellites-in-december/article3927164.ece

PSLV to launch 5 foreign satellites in December
Madhumathi D. S.

SARAL will study heights of ocean surfaces and waves

The Indian Space Research Organisation's next PSLV launch slated for December this year will also put five small commercial foreign satellites in orbit.

Among them is a 148-kg Canadian surveillance satellite, Sapphire.

ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan said the satellites, weighing between 148 kg and 3 kg, would fly piggyback with the main satellite, SARAL, which was an Indo-French cooperative mission. The flight is slated for '12-12-12': or December 12 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.

Roughly, a PSLV rocket — which has three variants — can lift around 1,000-kg payload into near-Earth orbits of around 800 km.

"There is a demand for one more small satellite to be put along with [them.] We are seeing the technical feasibility" of it, he said in an interview to The Hindu.

It was not immediately known what Antrix Corporation, ISRO's commercial arm, has charged for launching these satellites.

It reportedly earned close to Rs. 100 crore when the latest PSLV put France's SPOT-6, weighing 720 kg, into a 600-km orbit.

SARAL, weighing 350-400 kg, is acronym for 'SAtellite for ARgos and ALtiKa' and carries two Earth sensing instruments provided by ISRO's French counterpart, CNES.

It will study heights of ocean surfaces and waves.

ISRO has built the satellite as per their agreement in 2007.

The other small paid passengers to be flown on the PSLV-C20 are NEOSSAT, another Canadian 82-kg surveillance satellite; BRITE and UniBRITE each weighing 14 kg from Austria; and the 3-kg AAUSAT for Denmark's Aalborg University.

The PSLV, ISRO's workhorse vehicle, has placed 29 commercial satellites in orbit, the latest being SPOT 6 on September 9.

Dr. Radhakrishnan said the PSLV, operating since 1997, alone will contribute 18 of the 25 launches up to 2017, as proposed in 12th Five-Year Plan. Five launches of the two-tonne-lifting rocket, the GSLV, and two of the four-tonne-lifting GSLV-MkIII were also planned.

Besides the 58 overall missions (i.e., satellites and launchers) planned over the next five years, there was scope for two commercial projects, he said.

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Max Valier ушёл в Плесецк:
http://www.uk.amsat.org/9657

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http://spaceref.ca/isro/canadian-satellites-set-to-launch-on-indian-rocket-on-december-12.html

Canadian Satellites Set to Launch on Indian Rocket on December 12
By Marc Boucher
Posted October 3, 2012 10:32 AM

After years of delays, two important government satellites, NEOSSat and Sapphire along with two university built nanosatellites are now set to launch on India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C20 on Wednesday, December 12 from India's Satish Dhawan Space Center.

NEOSSat will be the first space telescope dedicated to the search for near-Earth asteroids. NEOSSat is the result of a university-industry collaboration and will spend half the time looking for these small interplanetary objects that could potentially impact the Earth and cause great damage. NEOSSat will spend the other half of its time searching for satellites and space debris in orbit around the Earth in a research project sponsored by a DND agency, Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC).

Sapphire is the Department of National Defence (DND) first dedicated military satellite and will upgrade Canada's space surveillance capabilities.

Also launching on the PSLV-C20 rocket are the Canadian built CanX-3b (aka TUGSAT-1) and CanX-3a (aka UniBRITE) nanosatellites. Both of these nanosatellites we're built by the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies Space Flight Laboratory.

TAGS: CanX-3a, CanX-3b, ISRO, NEOSSat, Sapphire, UTIAS SFL

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instml пишет:

 Launch of Canadian Satellites by India Delayed Until January

In yet another delay, SpaceRef has learned that the launch of two important government satellites, NEOSSat and Sapphire along with two university built nanosatellites has been postponed from its December 12th launch date to January 12th. No reason has been released publicly for the delay.
The satellites are part of a secondary payload set to launch on India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C20 with the joint Indo-French SARAL satellite as the primary payload.
 NEOSSat will be the first space telescope dedicated to the search for near-Earth asteroids. NEOSSat is the result of a university-industry collaboration and will spend half the time looking for these small interplanetary objects that could potentially impact the Earth and cause great damage. NEOSSat will spend the other half of its time searching for satellites and space debris in orbit around the Earth in a research project sponsored by a DND agency, Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC).
 Sapphire is the Department of National Defence (DND) first dedicated military satellite and will upgrade Canada's space surveillance capabilities.
Also launching on the PSLV-C20 rocket are the Canadian built CanX-3b (aka TUGSAT-1) and CanX-3a (aka UniBRITE) nanosatellites. Both of these nanosatellites we're built by the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies Space Flight Laboratory .

 http://spaceref.ca/isro/launch-of-canadian-satellites-by-india-delayed-until-january.html

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http://zeenews.india.com/news/space/isro-to-miss-dec-launch-date-for-saral-report_812325.html

ISRO to miss Dec launch date for SARAL: Report
Last Upd ated: Thursday, November 22, 2012, 22:58

ISRO to miss Dec launch date for SARAL: Report Bangalore: ISRO may be adept at putting satellites into precise orbit but now appears se t to fall flat on its publicly-pronounced date to launch Indo-French spacecraft "SARAL" on 12-12-12.

ISRO sources confirmed today that with technical issues cropping up and additional tests proposed to improve reliability; the blast-off on December 12 (12-12-12) is ruled out.

ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) top-brass are slated to undertake on November 27 mission readiness review vis-a-vis the launch. "The launch is now likely in January-February", an official of the Bangalore-headquartered space agency said.

In September, ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan said SARAL would be launched onboard PSLV-C20 from the spaceport of Sriharikota on December 12.

"PSLV-C20 will be assembled in about 25 days in Sriharikota and the satellite will be launched on December 12, 2012. As somebody said it's 12-12-12 (launch date)," he said on September 12 at the Bangalore Space Expo 2012 here.

Along with SARAL, ISRO was also slated to launch four foreign micro-satellites on board PSLV-C20.

ISRO officials said SARAL is a small satellite mission with payloads -- Argos and Altika -- from French space agency CNES for study of ocean parameters towards enhancing the understanding of the ocean state conditions which are otherwise not covered by the in-situ measurements.

The satellite has been built by ISRO, which would also take care of the launch services.

SARAL will provide data products to operational and research user communities, in support of marine meteorology and sea state forecasting; operational oceanography; seasonal forecasting; climate monitoring; ocean, earth system and climate research, the officials said.

PTI