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After the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, ISRO made its first launch on Saturday 7 November. It launched the EOS-1 Earth observation satellite and nine smaller payloads into orbit.
As reported by Spacenews, the launch was scheduled for late 2019 but was delayed due to COVID-19. PSLV-C49 took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota, at 4:42 am New York time. The EOS-01 Earth observation satellite was successfully injected into a circular orbit of 575 kilometers after approximately 16 minutes.
Weighing approximately 628 kilograms, the EOS-01 is part of ISRO’s RISAT series of SAR satellites. It is a synthetic aperture radar satellite with all weather, day and night observation capabilities. The intended applications of EOS-1 are agriculture, forestry and disaster management.
The nine rideshare payloads included four satellites from Luxembourg’s Kleos Space. Along with that, four small Lemur satellites for the American company Spire and the Lithuanian R2 technology demonstrator have been placed in their intended orbits.
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