New Delhi: Making its first foray into the global satellite launch market, ISRO’s heaviest rocket GSLVMK III will launch 36 satellites of London-headquartered global communications company OneWeb in the second half of this month, which the Bharti Airtel-backed company is on track to complete will help you move forward. Its satellites group together to provide high-speed satellite-based Internet around the world.
London-headquartered global communications company OneWeb to launch 36 satellites
Bharti Airtel-backed high spped satellite-based internet around the world
With this ‘LVM3 M2/OneWeb India-1 mission’, the first LVM3 dedicated commercial launch on demand (commercial arm of ISRO) through New Space India Limited (NSIL), LVM3 enters the global commercial launch services market, Indian the space agency said Thursday.
The global satcom company recently severed its ties with the Russian space company for satellite launch due to Ukraine war and decided to use ISRO’s services to launch its broadband satellites. The company suspended all launches from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in March in protest of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
According to some reports, the GSLVMkIII launch is expected to take place between October 21 and 22, but ISRO is yet to confirm the launch date.
There are several firsts for India in the proposed mission. This is the first commercial launch of ISRO’s heaviest rocket GSLV MkIII, the first time an Indian rocket will carry a payload of about six tonnes, the first time OneWeb is using an Indian rocket to put its satellites into orbit and the first time GSLV MkIII too. Or its variants are being used to launch satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
OneWeb, which has already launched 428 satellites out of a total of 648 low earth orbit satellites by February 2022, will connect towns, villages and local and regional municipalities in the hardest-hit areas, thus playing a key role in bridging this gap. Digital divide across India. The company’s services are already available in Alaska, Canada, the UK and the Arctic region.
Two solid strap-on boosters and the LVM3’s Liquid Core stage are fully integrated into the second launchpad at Sriharikota. ISRO said the integration of the cryogenic upper stage of the launch vehicle and the payload fairing with 36 satellites will take place in the coming days.
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London-headquartered global communications company OneWeb to launch 36 satellites
Bharti Airtel-backed high spped satellite-based internet around the world