PSLV C16 Launch: ISRO Has Successfully Launched PSLV C-16 Today.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully launched Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C16) today. PSLV-C16  launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, India.

About PSLV – C16:

• PSLV-CI6 is the 18th flight of ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV
• PSLV is 44 meter high weighing 294,000 kgs.
• In this flight, the standard version of PSLV with six solid strap-on motors is used.
• It can carry payload of 1600 kg to Sun-Synchronous orbit.
• PSLV has 4 stages and uses Solid Fuel namely Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB)
• PSLV-CI6 will place 03 satellites with a total payload mass of 1404 kg –

1. 1. RESOURCESAT-2 weighing 1206 kg,
   2. The Indo-Russian YOUTHSAT weighing 92 kg and
   3. Singapore’s X-SAT weighing 106 kg – into an 822 km polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO)

Other remote sensing satellites scheduled for launch this year by ISRO are Megha-Tropiques, Radar Imaging Satellite-1 (RISAT-1) and Saral.