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22/10/22 19:46 PM IST

LVM3 Launch to Mark ISRO’s Entry Into Global Commercial Launch Service Market

In News 
  • The ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) is set to launch 36 broadband communication satellites aboard Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3), the space agency’s heaviest rocket. 
Commercial Arm of the ISRO
  • New Space India Limited (NSIL), a CPSE under the Department of Space and the commercial arm of the ISRO, has signed two launch service contracts with M/s Network Access Associated Limited (M/s OneWeb), United Kingdom, for launching OneWeb LEO Broadband Communication Satellites on board ISRO’s heaviest launcher LVM3.
About OneWeb
  • OneWeb is a global communications network, powered from space, enabling connectivity for govemments, businesses, and communities.
  • It is implementing a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites. India’s Bharti group serves as a major investor and shareholder in OneWeb.
  • Two solid strap-on boosters and a liquid core stage of LVM3 have been fully integrated at the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR.
  • Integration of 36 OneWeb satellites after successful completion of health checks have been assembled with the dispenser unit.
  • With this launch, OneWeb will have over 70 per cent of its planned ‘Gen 1 LEO constellation‘ in orbit as it progresses to deliver high-speed, low-latency connectivity services around the world.

ISRO’s Launch Vehicles:
For Lower Earth Orbits:
  • Several satellites need to be deposited only in the lower earth orbits, which starts from about 180 km from earth’s surface and extends up to 2,000 km.
  • Most of the earth-observation satellites, communication satellites, and even the International Space Station, a full-fledged laboratory in space that hosts astronauts, function in this space.
  • It takes a smaller amount of energy to take the satellites to low-earth orbits, and accordingly smaller, less powerful, rockets are used for this purpose.
Source- Hindustan Times 

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