План индийских космических пусков

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Состоявшиеся пуски
№п/п - Дата - КА - РКН - Космодром - Время (ДМВ)

2022
01 - 14 февраля - EOS-04 (RISAT-1A), InspireSat-1, INS-2TD - PSLV-XL (С52) - Шрихарикота 1 - 03:29:00

На зарубежных носителях:
1 апреля - Transporter-4: Shakuntala (Pixxel-2) - Falcon 9-146 (B1061.7 ASDS) - Канаверал SLC-40 - 16:24:17

Планируемые пуски
Дата - КА - РКН/РБ - Космодром - Время (ДМВ)

2022
  не ранее февраля   конец марта -    начало   не ранее апреля - EOS-06 (OCEANSAT-3), Anand (Pixxel-1), INS-2B (BhutanSat - Бутан) + 3 МКА - PSLV-CA (C53) - Шрихарикота 1
  I кв-л   25-31 марта  май - EOS-02 (Microsat-2A) - SSLV-D1 - Шрихарикота 1 (или апрель)
29 марта  апрель  не ранее мая - TDS-01 - PSLV (C54) - Шрихарикота
не ранее 2022  июль - RESOURCESAT-3S, GNOMES-2 (США) - PSLV-XL - Шрихарикота
III кв-л  август - Chandrayaan-3 - GSLV-MkIII (M2) - Шрихарикота 2
III кв-л  сентябрь-октябрь - ADITYA-L1 - PSLV-XL - Шрихарикота (или март 2023)
ПО - NVS-01 (IRNSS-1J) - GSLV-MkII (F14) - Шрихарикота 2
ПО - IDRSS-1 - GSLV-MkIII - Шрихарикота (или 2023)
ПО - BlackSky Global 5, BlackSky Global 6, BlackSky Global 9, BlackSky Global 10 (США) - SSLV -D2 - Шрихарикота 2
ПО - CARTOSAT-3A - PSLV-CA - Шрихарикота (или 2023)
ПО - SCATSAT-1A - PSLV-XL - Шрихарикота (или 2023)
ПО - TeLEOS-2 (Сингапур) - PSLV - Шрихарикота (или 2023)
ПО - два DISHA (Disturbed and quite-type Ionosphere System at High Altitude) - PSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - ПО - Vikram I - ПО
ПО - ПО - Agnibaan - ПО

Попутная нагрузка:
ПО - Anant - PSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - Azad-1 - PSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - CLIMB - PSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - IITMSAT - PSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - INS-2TD - PSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - Lagari (Турция) - PSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - Landmapper-BC 7 (Corvus-BC 7) (США) - PSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - LPUSAT - PSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - NEMO-AM (Канада, Индия) - PSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - RSAT - PSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - RVSAT-1 - PSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - SPaDEx Chaser, SPaDEx Target - PSLV - Шрихарикота

На зарубежных носителях:
апрель - CMS-02 (GSAT-24) - Ariane-5 ECA+ (VA257) - Куру ELA-3

2023
не ранее 2022  январь - RESOURCESAT-3SA - PSLV-XL - Шрихарикота
середина 2022  начало года - GaganYaan (первый беспилотный полёт) - GSLV-MkIII (M3) - Шрихарикота 2 (или не позже 15 августа)
август - HRSAT-1A, HRSAT-1B, HRSAT-1C - PSLV-XL - Шрихарикота 1 ~09:00  (или 2022)
29 января  сентябрь - NISAR/NI-SAR (научная миссия NASA-ISRO) - GSLV-MkIII - Шрихарикота 2
не ранее 2022  декабрь - RESOURCESAT-3 - PSLV-XL - Шрихарикота
конец года - GaganYaan (второй беспилотный полёт) - GSLV-MkIII - Шрихарикота 2
не ранее 2022  ПО - RISAT-1B - PSLV-XL - Шрихарикота
III кв-л 2022  ПО - InSat-3DS - GSLV-MkII - Шрихарикота
  2022   ПО - EOS-05 (GISAT-2) - GSLV-MkII (F12) - Шрихарикота 2
ПО - GSAT-32 - GSLV-MkII (F13) - Шрихарикота 2 (или 2022)
ПО - GSAT-7R (7B) (IAF ComSat) - GSLV-MkII - Шрихарикота (или 2022)
ПО - CMS-03 (GSAT-20) - GSLV-MkIII - Шрихарикота (или 2022)
  2022   ПО - GSAT-21 - GSLV-MkIII - Шрихарикота 2
ПО - GSAT-22 - GSLV-MkIII - Шрихарикота (или 2022)
ПО - IDRSS-2 - GSLV-MkIII - Шрихарикота (или 2022)
  2022   ПО - XPoSat (X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite) - SSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - ПО - SSLV-D3 - Куласекарапаттинам (или 2022)
ПО - ПО - SSLV - Куласекарапаттинам (или 2022)

Попутная нагрузка:
начало года  1-й квартал - Pixxel (x6) - PSLV/SSLV - Шрихарикота/Куласекарапаттинам
ПО - Pixxel (x12) - PSLV/SSLV - Шрихарикота/Куласекарапаттинам

2024
не ранее 2022  январь - RESOURCESAT-3A - PSLV-XL - Шрихарикота
декабрь - TRISHNA - PSLV - Шрихарикота (или 2022)
декабрь - Shukrayan-1 (индийская научная миссия к Венере) - ПО - Шрихарикота (или середина 2026)
  2023   ПО - GaganYaan (первый пилотируемый полёт) - GSLV-MkIII - Шрихарикота 2
ПО - MOM-2 (вторая орбитальная марсианская миссия) - GSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - AHySIS-2 - PSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - DISHA-H - PSLV/SSLV - Шрихарикота/Куласекарапаттинам (или 2025)
ПО - DISHA-L - PSLV/SSLV - Шрихарикота/Куласекарапаттинам (или 2025)

Попутная нагрузка:
ПО - Pixxel (x16) - PSLV/SSLV - Шрихарикота/Куласекарапаттинам

На зарубежных носителях:
ПО - Chandrayan-4 (индийская научная миссия на полюс Луны) (Selene-R: посадочный модуль ISRO, ровер JAXA) - H-3 - Танегасима

2025
  2022   ПО - ATMSAT-1 (Atmospheric Satellite-1) - PSLV - Шрихарикота (или 2023)
ПО - ASTROSAT-2 - GSLV - Шрихарикота

2028
ПО - Exowords (индийская научная миссия по изучению экзопланет) - ПО - Шрихарикота

2030
ПО - индийская пилотируемая космическая станция - ПО - Шрихарикота

C неопределённой датой:
Дата - КА - РКН/РБ - Космодром
не ранее 2022 - CARTOSAT-3B - PSLV-CA - Шрихарикота
не ранее 2022 - OCEANSAT-3A - PSLV-CA - Шрихарикота
не ранее 2022 - RESOURCESAT-3B - PSLV-XL - Шрихарикота
не ранее 2022 - IRNSS-1K - PSLV-XL - Шрихарикота
не ранее 2022 - IRNSS-1L - PSLV-XL - Шрихарикота
не ранее 2022 - IRNSS-1M - PSLV-XL - Шрихарикота
не ранее 2022 - RISAT-2A - PSLV-XL - Шрихарикота
не ранее 2022 - GSAT-7C (IAF ComSat) - GSLV-MkII - Шрихарикота
не ранее 2022 - GSAT-23 - GSLV-MkIII - Шрихарикота
не ранее 2022 - GSAT-25 - GSLV - Шрихарикота
не ранее 2022 - GSAT-26 - GSLV - Шрихарикота
не ранее 2022 - GSAT-27 - GSLV - Шрихарикота
не ранее 2022 - IRNSS-1N - PSLV-XL - Шрихарикота
не ранее 2022 - IRNSS-S1 - PSLV-С-XL - Шрихарикота
не ранее 2022 - IRNSS-S2 - PSLV-XL - Шрихарикота
не ранее 2022 - IRNSS-S3 - PSLV-XL - Шрихарикота
середина 30-х годов - INSIST (INdian Spectroscopic Imaging Space Telescope) - ПО - ПО
ПО - RISAT-3 - PSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - PRATUSH - GSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - Oneweb - PSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - Oneweb - GSLV-MkIII - Шрихарикота

Попутная нагрузка:
2021-2023 - BeliefSat-1 - PSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - десять спутников AIS (Индия, Франция) - PSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - IMS-1B (ENVIRON) - PSLV - Шрихарикота
ПО - IMS-1С -ПО -ПО
ПО - IMS-1D -ПО -ПО
ПО - IMS-1E, IMS-1F - PSLV - Шрихарикота

Используемые сокращения:
DISHA - Disturbed and quite-type Ionosphere System at High Altitude
КА - космический аппарат
РКН - ракета космического назначения
РБ - разгонный блок
ПО - подлежит определению
ДМВ - декретное московское время
НВМ - неотделяемый весовой макет

Статистика:
Орбитальные  пуски - 79
Запущенные спутники - 436

Изменения от 26 января
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Изменения от 9 февраля
Изменения от 14 февраля
Изменения от 21 февраля
Изменения от 17 марта
Изменения от 1 апреля

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https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/2022/01/25/exclusive-no-gaganyaan-unmanned-flight-this-year.html

There will be no Gaganyaan flight this year. The Covid-19 pandemic has shifted the schedule of one of India's most ambitious missions, the human space flight, by a large margin.
Union minister for science and technology, space and atomic energy Jitendra Singh told THE WEEK that the first Gaganyaan flight is expected to take off in early 2023. "We will aim for the second flight, which will have the indigenous robot Vyomitra, to take off, hopefully by the end of 2023. The manned flight should happen sometime in 2024," he said.
Gaganyaan comprises three flights of the GSLV Mk III to a lower earth orbit. The first two flights will be unmanned while the third will have a crew of two or three officers of the Indian Air Force.
When Mission Gaganyaan was announced on August 15, 2018, the aim was to have Indian astronauts in space in 2022, the 75th year of independence. "The schedule has slipped," said Singh. The pandemic has been the main reason for this delay.
Singh said since the man submersible mission Samudrayaan is also targeted for 2024, it will be a landmark year for the country, during which one crew will go to outer space and another to the bottom of the sea, some 6,000 metre below the surface.
Indian Space Research Organisation's new chief and secretary, department of space, S. Somanath met the minister on Tuesday and apprised him of the progress of the various missions. 
On January 20, the high thrust Vikas engine for Gaganyaan programme went a successful qualification test for a duration of 25 seconds at ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC) in Mahendragiri, Tamil Nadu. The test was to verify the robustness of the engine by operating beyond its nominal operating conditions (fuel-oxidiser ratio and chamber pressure). The performance of the engine met the test objectives.
Three more tests are planned for a cumulative duration of 75 seconds under varying operating conditions. After that another high thrust Vikas engine will undergo a long-duration test for 240 seconds to complete the engine qualification for the Gaganyaan Programme.
Meanwhile, the other flights planned this year are: RICAT-1A PSLV C5-2 scheduled for February 2022, OCEANSAT-3, INS 2B ANAND PSLV C-53 to be launched in March 2022 and SSLV-D1 Micro SAT in April 2022.
This year, ISRO will also launch GSAT-21, the first fully funded satellite of the New Space India Limited (NSIL). This communication satellite will meet the DTH (Direct to Home) application needs.

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EOS-04 - 14 февраля.
https://www.eenadu.net/telugu-news/india/general/0702/122019336

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https://www.isro.gov.in/launcher/pslv-c52-eos-04-mission

PSLV-C52/EOS-04 Mission
The launch of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C52 is scheduled at 05:59 hours on February 14, 2022 from the First Launch Pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.
PSLV-C52 is designed to orbit an earth observation satellite (EOS-04), weighing 1710 kg into a sun synchronous polar orbit of 529 km. EOS-04
PSLV-C52 mission will also carry two small satellites as co-passengers which includes one student satellite (INSPIREsat-1) from Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology (IIST) in association with Laboratory of Atmospheric & Space Physics at University of Colorado, Boulder and a technology demonstrator satellite (INS-2TD) from ISRO, which is a precursor to India-Bhutan Joint Satellite (INS-2B).
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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/2-key-gaganyaan-crew-abort-tests-aditya-top-priority/articleshow/89305880.cms
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https://twitter.com/r_isro/status/1490414279496978436

r_isro @r_isro

Upcoming Technology Demonstration Satellite 01 (TDS-01) will be on PSLV-C54. Launch aiming for end of March 2022.
https://t.co/lCCDU7TKnw

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https://twitter.com/sdhrthmp/status/1489176010431950860

Sidharth.M.P @sdhrthmp

@isro #Chandrayaan3 India's third lunar mission to be launched in August 2022, Govt reveals
Lunar spacecraft will be launched on-board GSLV Mk 3, India's heaviest operational rocket , will have lander & rover carried on propulsion module

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https://tass.ru/kosmos/13697645

НЬЮ-ДЕЛИ, 14 февраля. /ТАСС/. Индийская организация космических исследований (ISRO) утром в понедельник успешно вывела на орбиту спутник радиолокационного зондирования Земли, а также еще два малых аппарата. Об этом ISRO сообщила на своей странице в Twitter.
"Индийская ракета-носитель PSLV-C52 вывела спутник наблюдения Земли EOS-04 на запланированную солнечно-синхронную полярную орбиту на высоту 529 км", - говорится в сообщении.
Индийское космическое ведомство указывает, что запуск произведен около 06:00 (03:30 мск) со стартовой площадки космического центра им. Сатиша Дхавана на острове Шрихарикота.
Радиолокационный спутник EOS-04 весом 1 710 кг предназначен для получения высококачественных изображений земной поверхности при любых погодных условиях и будет задействован в таких областях, как сельское хозяйство, лесное хозяйство, гидрология, картографирование наводнений и т. п.
Вместе со спутником EOS-04 были запущены два малых аппарата. Спутник Inspiresat-1, разработанный студентами Индийского института космических наук и технологий совместно с американским Университетом Колорадо и участниками из Сингапура и Тайваня, будет исследовать динамику ионосферы и процессы в солнечной короне. На аппарате INS-2TD будут отрабатываться технологии для разрабатываемого индийско-бутанского спутника. INS-2TD оснащен тепловизионной камерой для оценки температуры земной поверхности. Это первая космическая миссия Индии в 2022 году.

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https://indianexpress.com/article/india/isros-pslv-c52-lifts-off-with-earth-observation-and-2-small-satellites-7772120/

Isro is likely to target Chandrayaan-3 this year in August. The first development flight of the newly designed small satellite launch vehicle which was to happen in the second half of 2021 has also been deferred.

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https://science.thewire.in/politics/government/budget-2022-isro-department-of-space-nsil-inspace-space-science/

• The Department of Space hopes to conduct two Gaganyaan test vehicle launches, five launches of the PSLV, two launches of the GSLV and two launches of the new SSLV.
• These missions will deploy the Chandrayaan 3, IDRSS-1, IRNSS-1J, EOS-6/OceanSat-3, TDS-01, Aditya L1, EOS-2/MicroSat-2A, and the Global 5, 6, 7 and 8 missions.
• The department hopes to generate Rs 219.14 crore in revenue by providing commercial launch services, and has asked for Rs 1,500 crore more than it did in the revised budget last year.
• NSIL has been slow to productionise the PSLV, GSLV and GSLV Mk II launch vehicles, and its budget outlay has been reduced this year after its capitalisation last year.

Last year, as part of my work with the Takshashila Institution, we submitted comments to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology based on the Union budget document in 2021. I am hoping to do something similar with this article.
There are two documents that I refer to while writing this:
1. Notes on Demands for Grants 2022-2023: This is how the Department of Space asks the Government of India for money for the work it needs to do in the forthcoming financial year.
2. Outcome Budget 2022-2023: This is what the Department of Space is saying it will do with the money allocated in the budget.
The Department of Space hopes to conduct two Gaganyaan test vehicle launches, five launches of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), two launches of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) and two launches of the new Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV).
All these activities are for the period between March 2022 and April 2023, amounting, in all, to 11 launches for the financial year.
(Note: The GSLV was previously called the GSLV Mk II. While the Mk II and Mk III launch vehicles are numbered in sequential fashion, they have different designs and engine configurations.)
The expectation is that these missions will deploy the Chandrayaan 3 mission onboard a GSLV Mk III rocket; the IDRSS-1 and the IRNSS-1J missions onboard the GSLV; the EOS-6/OceanSat-3, the TDS-01 and the Aditya L1 missions onboard the PSLV; and the EOS-2/MicroSat-2A and the Global 5, 6, 7 and 8 missions onboard the SSLV.
Two of the five satellites planned to fly onboard PSLV missions in 2022-2023 are unknown, as of now.
Many of these missions were to be launched much earlier, and have been delayed. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has a backlog of satellites to be launched. And the way in which we use our launch pads also means it will be difficult (i.e. time-consuming) to prepare them to use these different launch vehicles one after another.
Yet these efforts are important. The Department of Space hopes to generate a revenue of Rs 219.14 crore by providing commercial launch services. To execute them, the department has asked for about Rs 1,500 crore more than it did in the revised budget last year.
Next, there are a number of private space companies setting up to build spaceflight subsystems in India. In its programmes, ISRO had suggested that we need more space applications companies. But the outcome figures from ISRO are not encouraging.
ISRO has targeted to earn a revenue of Rs 11 crore from data products. For this, it hopes to host about 5 lakh data and value-added products and target 28,000 unique users, and for which it has asked for an amount greater than the revised budget estimate last year by Rs 100 crore.
Next, the Department of Space has made requests for money under the head of 'space sciences'. This includes some ambitious missions, like Chandrayaan 3 and Aditya L1, but also includes some of the research that the Department of Space has sponsored. And this request is actually a Rs 5 crore decrease from the revised budget last year.
The Government of India wants ISRO to work on research projects and let NewSpace India, Ltd. and to let non-governmental private entities take care of the operational burden of ISRO. If the government is to do this, I think an increase of the 'space science' research budget is the way forward.
I am also happy that the Department of Space has asked for more money this year for Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, but the quantum of increase requested is only Rs 40 crore. This, while ISRO is involved in resource-intensive projects like quantum communication. (PRL is also the cradle of the Indian space programme.) So if we want more research from ISRO, I think the Department of Space must ask for more money.
The Indian National Satellite System, better known as INSAT, is another confusing head. We are not sure how much money the Department of Space is spending to acquire new orbital slots, keeping satellites in orbital slots, etc. The GSLV and GSLV Mk III rockets are being used for other, important endeavours like the Chandrayaan lunar mission, navigational satellite launches and data-relay satellite launches – whereas we depend on the Ariane V rocket to launch our own communication satellites, including the INSATs.
I wonder if our shift to the demand-driven production of satellites will further slow the speed with which we build out our GSLV fleet. We also have to contend with the loss of a GSLV in 2021.
Next, NewSpace India, Ltd. (NSIL) has been slow to productionise the PSLV, and it also needs to step up the productionisation of the GSLV and GSLV Mk III launch vehicles. NSIL's budget outlay has also been reduced this year after its capitalisation last year. It received Rs 44 crore more than what it had asked for last year.
It is unclear why the budgetary support has been reduced even as the NSIL tries to take on the operational workload of ISRO.
Finally, the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre, or IN-SPACe, has asked for Rs 33 crore, which seems like a good first step. This year, the Department of Space seems focused on building out the space-sector regulator.

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https://www.stengg.com/satellite-systems

The development of TeLEOS-2 is underway and is planned for launch in 2022/2023.

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http://database.eohandbook.com/database/missionsummary.aspx?missionID=708

CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - INSAT-3DS -
Full Name    Indian National Satellite - 3DS    Status    N/A
Mission Agencies    ISRO [Lead Agency (Indian Space Research Organization)]    
Launch Date    01 Dec 2022

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https://www.sakshi.com/telugu-news/andhra-pradesh/satish-dhawan-space-centre-ready-pslv-c53-launch-1435824
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Суллурупета: Индийская организация космических исследований (ISRO) готовится ко второму запуску в этом году. Corona активизирует усилия по увеличению количества экспериментов перед лицом полного спада. Информация о том, что запуск PSLV-C53, скорее всего, состоится в конце марта или в первую неделю апреля. Запуск будет сопровождаться EVOS (он же OceanShot-3) и пятью другими малыми спутниками.
Ракета SSLV также должна быть запущена в период с 25 по 31 марта после того, как 15 марта запланирован запуск долгожданной ракеты-носителя малых спутников (SSLV).

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Всегда поражали индийские журналисты. Как понять последний абзац?

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https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/risat-1a-satellite-1644477160-1

Other launches this year

After RISAT-1A, three satellites OCEANSAT-3, INS-2B, ANAND will be launched aboard PSLV-C53 in March and Micro SAT onboard Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) in April this year.

The launch of GSAT-24 which is a communication satellite is also scheduled during the first quarter of 2022 aboard the Arianespace's Ariane 5.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/90190539.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

While the polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) mission is scheduled to launch earth observation satellite-6 (EOS-6) or Oceansat-3 in the early part of April

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https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/isro-to-chalk-out-plans-to-increase-launches-and-satellite-manufacturing-122031600213_1.html

The Indian space agency has to launch OCEANSAT-3, INS-2B, ANAND- by PSLV-C53 and Micro SAT by the newly developed small rocket Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) in May.

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https://rossaprimavera.ru/news/79319fcf

По словам генерального директора и соучредителя компании Pixel Аваиса Ахмеда, полученные инвестиции поддержат планы по запуску двух спутников в 2022 году и шести спутников в начале 2023 года.
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Отметим, компания Pixxel планировала вывести на орбиту 30 спутников к середине 2023 года, но этот срок был перенесен на конец 2024 года из-за проблем с цепочкой поставок, вызванных эпидемией.

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https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/pixxel-launches-its-first-satellite-aboard-spacex-to-launch-seven-more-by-march-2023-11648831839650.html

New Delhi: Indian space-tech startup Pixxel has launched its first satellite, part of its eventual 36-satellite planned constellation, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission. The satellite was incidentally the second that Pixxel built, and is a part of the first three technology demonstration satellites in its constellation. Called 'Shakuntala', the satellite will help Pixxel begin its hyperspectral satellite imagery and satellite-based data analytics services to pilot customers.

Awais Ahmed, chief executive of Pixxel, told Mint that the startup will now look to complete its second launch of its first technology demonstrator satellite, called Anand, aboard an upcoming mission with the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro). The latter is expected to launch India's Earth Observation Satellite (Eos)-6, part of the Indian Oceansat programme, in the coming months.

Eos-6 will be the primary payload aboard Isro's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), with Pixxel's Anand satellite being one of the mission's two secondary payloads. However, with the Oceansat mission working on a delayed timeline, the Eos-6 launch may miss its April 2022 launch window.
Hyperspectral imaging and remote sensing refers to the capturing and processing of a significantly wider range of wavelengths, allowing satellite imagery to process greater amounts of terrestrial data.
Ahmed said that after its launch, the satellite will take about an hour to be deployed in a low-Earth orbit. "The orbit is about 520km above Earth. For the next two weeks after deployment, we will carry out technical tests to ensure that everything is in order. About a month later, from around May, we will start offering some amounts of data to our clients to demonstrate the abilities of our services," he added.
Ahmed further confirmed that after the two launches in 2022, Pixxel will look to complete six launches in the first quarter of 2023. This will be followed up by 12 further launches by the end of 2023, which should bring up the company's entire constellation up to full performance capability.