Seventh and last regional navigation spacecraft to be launched on April 28

Q.  ISRO will be launching how many new satellites with the seventh and last launch of the regional navigation spacecraft?
- Published on 18 Apr 16

a. 21
b. 22
c. 23
d. 24

ANSWER: 21
 
7th and last regional spacecraft will be launched on April 28th putting 21 small and mostly foreign commercial satellites along with a larger Indian spacecraft.
  • Primary passenger on PSLV- C33 launcher will be an earth observing, high resolution Cartosat-2C weighing close to 700 kgs.
  • With a resolution of 60 cm, Cartosat-2C is the best Indian eye in the sky catering to military requirements
  • Its object scanning camera can spot objects 60 cm wide or longer from an orbit of 600 km.
  • NASA has the highest 2013 record for putting largest number of small customer satellites (29) in orbit on the Minotaur launcher.

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