ISRO’s PSLV-C51 Takes Off Carrying Amazonia-1 and Other 18 Satellites

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Sunday launched the PSLV-C51 carrying Amazonia-1 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.

This is the first space mission of ISRO in 2021. Amazonia-1 is an optical earth observation satellite from Brazil. At 10:24 am, the PSLV-C51 carrying Amazonia-1 and 18 other satellites lifted off from the launch pad at Sriharikota spaceport. This is the 53rd flight of PSLV and the 78th launch vehicle mission.

The 18 other satellites in the present mission include Satish Dhawan SAT (SDSAT) built by Space Kidz India and UNITYsat, a combination of three satellites, designed and built by three colleges — Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology in Coimbatore, JPR Institute of Technology in Sriperumbudur and GH Raisoni College of Engineering in Nagpur. It also includes SindhuNetra, an Indian technology demonstration satellite, SAI-1 NanoConnect-2, a technology demonstration satellite from the US, and 12 SpaceBEEs satellites for two-way satellite communications and data relay.

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