Today 16 Dec. 15, the Indian PSLV C29 rocket carried 6 Singaporean satellites to an equatorial orbit at 6 PM from Sriharikota launch centre. There were a few significant aspects of this launch campaign that are of technical, geo-political and commercial significance.
This was this was the first buy out of an entire rocket by Singapore after their previous launch experience of XSAT as a piggyback on PSLV in 2011. The launch projects the strengthening of interest of regional and international players to confidently procure entire launch vehicle based on their initial experiences.
The occasion is a celebration of the 50th year anniversary of Singapore (50th year of international collaboration with India) and incidentally also marks 50th rocket launched by Indian (including SLV, ASLV, PSLV, GSLV).… Click here to read the complete article