India will launch ISRO’s 100th satellite along with 30 others in a single mission on January 12 from Sriharikota, in a milestone event in the country’s space history.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said it was “back in the game” with the launch, the first Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) mission after the unsuccessful launch of the navigation satellite IRNSS-1H in August last. “The 31 spacecrafts, including weather observation Cartosat-2 series satellite, will be launched by PSLV-C40,” ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC) director M Annadurai said today.
Stating that 28 of the satellites were from abroad, the official noted that the launch of three Indian satellites during the mission would mark the roll out of the hundredth satellite from ISRO. “When the last satellite is ejected out it will become the hundredth satellite…the first century we have done.
It is the maiden century. So PSLV-C40 marks maiden century of Indian satellite….we are eagerly waiting for that,” he said. Speaking to reporters on sidelines of an exhibition on ASTROSAT here, Annadurai said, “With PSLV-C40 we are back in the game”.