{"id":3186,"date":"2023-02-10T05:41:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T00:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T05:21:23","slug":"what-is-small-satellite-launch-vehicle-sslv-d2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-small-satellite-launch-vehicle-sslv-d2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is  Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV-D2) ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The new vehicle was developed to capture the emerging small and microsatellite commercial market.<\/li>\n<li>The SSLV caters to the launch of up to <strong>500 kg satellites to low earth orbits<\/strong> on a &#8216;launch-on-demand&#8217; basis.<\/li>\n<li>The launch vehicle uses <strong>three solid stages<\/strong> followed by a <strong>liquid-fuel-based Velocity Trimming Module (VTM)<\/strong> to place satellites in orbit<\/li>\n<li>The rocket provides low-cost access to space, offers low turn-around time and flexibility in accommodating multiple satellites, and demands minimal launch infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>It placed the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) earth observation satellite EOS-07 and two co-passenger satellites \u2014 Janus-1 and AzaadiSat2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is Janus-1?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Janus-1 is a <strong>technology demonstrator<\/strong> satellite built by United States-based Antaris and its Indian partners XDLinks and Ananth Technologies.<\/li>\n<li>It weighs only 10.2 kg and is a six-unit cube satellite with five payloads on board \u2014 two from Singapore, and one each from Kenya, Australia, and Indonesia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is AzaadiSat2?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The payloads have been built by 750 girl students from across India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The payloads include<\/strong>: LoRa amateur radio, a sensor to measure radiation levels in space, and sensors to measure the health of the satellite such as temperature, reset count, and inertial data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is low earth orbit?<\/h3>\n<p>An orbit around the Earth with an altitude that lies towards the lower end of the range of possible orbits. This is around 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) or less.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/janus-1-and-azaadisat2-second-flight-of-isros-mini-vehicle-with-promise-on-board-8435348\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>ISRO\u2019s SSLV-D2 launch today: The mini vehicle\u2019s second flight, with promise on board<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new vehicle was developed to capture the emerging small and microsatellite commercial market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}