CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -PSLV-C34 rocket injected 20 big and small satellites into Polar Sun-synchronous Orbits on Wednesday morning. It was an achievement for ISRO, and a record. Why is Wednesday’s launch significant? ISRO has never launched so many satellites in a single mission.

Detailed explanation-2: -India has three active operational launch vehicles: Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk-III (LVM3). PSLV is configured with four variants like 6, 4, 2 solid rocket strap-on motors& core alone versions.

Detailed explanation-3: -The three-stage Pegasus rocket is used to deploy small satellites weighing up to 1, 000 pounds (453.59 kg) into low-Earth orbit.

Detailed explanation-4: -A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched into a brilliant blue sky this morning (Jan. 3) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying 114 satellites to orbit-the second-most spacecraft ever lofted on a single mission.

Detailed explanation-5: -Launched on 15 February 2017 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, the rocket successfully carried and deployed a record number of 104 satellites in sun-synchronous orbits in a single mission, breaking the earlier record of launching 37 satellites by a Russian Dnepr rocket on 19 June 2014.