The PSLV-C34 is set to lift the third satellite in the Cartosat-2 series and an Indian record-making 19 small satellites into space at 9.26 a.m. on Wednesday. It will be the 36th PSLV launcher to fly from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. The current Cartosat-2 spacecraft is an Earth observation spacecraft and will be put into a pole-to-pole orbit 515 km from surface.
The spacecraft is said to offer the best resolution of less than a metre on an Indian satellite, going as sharp as 60 cm. That is a measure of the smallest size of objects it can pick up on Earth.
17 minutes and 7 seconds after lift-off, the launcher is programmed to release 20 satellites in a sequence into nearby orbits. It will take less than ten minutes. The entire launch will take 26 minutes and 30 seconds.
This is the highest number of deployments by an Indian launcher.
