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I am interested to know how all those payload are mounted on PSLV's payload adapter. Cartosat 2 Series is the primary payload, and remaining 103 satellites are
by swatkat 10y ago
I am interested to know how all those payload are mounted on PSLV's payload adapter. Cartosat 2 Series is the primary payload, and remaining 103 satellites are co-passengers.
Usually, PSLV mission brochures used to depict how payloads are mounted on its payload adapter. However, it isn't shown this time.
a) Cartosat 2 Series - primary payload.
b) 88xDove (88x3U CubeSats) - 22 QuadPack[1] deployers.
c) 8xLEMUR (8x3U CubeSats) - 2 QuadPack deployers.
d) BGUSat (3U CubeSat), PEASSS (3U CubeSat), DIDO-2 (3U CubeSat), Al-Farabi-1 (2U CubeSat), and Nayif-1 (1U CubeSat) - 1 QuadPack deployer.
e) INS-1A and INS-1B are not in CubeSat format. So, they need to be mounted separately on payload adapter.
So, we have a primary payload + 25 QuadPack deployers + 2 nano-sats. Hopefully we'll get some info during mission live broadcast on how these payloads are mounted on PSLV.
[1] http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?filename=0&article=3161&context=smallsat&type=additional http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?filename=0...
- greglindahl 10y agoPlenty of photos at: https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/02/14/indian-rocket-set-to-place-104-satellites-in-orbit/ https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/02/14/indian-rocket-set-to-p...