{"id":7435,"date":"2022-11-26T01:15:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T19:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7435"},"modified":"2025-03-28T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:12:09","slug":"pslv-c54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pslv-c54\/","title":{"rendered":"PSLV-C54"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About PSLV-C54:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Satellites in PSLV-C54 includes EOS-06 (Oceansat-3) plus eight nano satellites (BhutanSat, &#8216;Anand&#8217; from Pixxel, Thybolt, and Astrocast &#8211; four numbers from Spaceflight USA).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>BhutanSat<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>ISRO Nano Satellite-2 for Bhutan (INS-2B) spacecraft is configured with INS-2 Bus. INS-2B will have two payloads namely NanoMx and APRS-Digipeater. NanoMx is a multispectral optical imaging payload developed by Space Applications Centre (SAC).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Anand<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Anand Nano satellite is technology demonstrator to demonstrate the capabilities and commercial applications of\u00a0<strong>miniaturized earth-observation camera for earth observation<\/strong>\u00a0using a microsatellite in\u00a0<strong>Low Earth Orbit.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This is a three-axis stabilized satellite consisting of a satbus, accommodating all subsystems like telemetry, tele-command, Electrical Power system, Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS), on-board computers etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Astrocast<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Astrocast, a 3U spacecraft is a technology demonstrator satellite for the Internet of Things (IoT) as the payload. There are 4 nos. of Astrocast Satellites in this mission. These spacecraft are housed within an ISISpace QuadPack dispenser.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>dispenser protects the satellite from contamination.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Thybolt<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Thybolt is a 0.5U spacecraft bus that includes a communication payload to enable rapid technology demonstration and constellation development for multiple users.<\/li>\n<li>It also demonstrates Store-and-Forward functionality for authorized users in the amateur frequency band. The satellites shall be deployed by using Dhruva Space Orbital Deployer to perform the specific mission operations for a minimum lifetime of 1 year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/india\/isro-to-launch-pslv-c54-today-with-oceansat-3-8-nano-satellites-11669432646236.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LiveMint<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISRO&#8217;s PSLV-C54 is to launch EOS-06 and Eight Nano-satellites into two different SSPOs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7435","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\/7435","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=7435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}