India’s launch of the country’s HysIS Earth observation satellite and 30 secondary small satellites on a PSLV rocket was a success on Wednesday:
https://youtu.be/OIGcIYRhj1A
See also:
- Live coverage: Indian rocket launches with 31 satellites – Spaceflight Now
- PSLV set for HySIS launch with numerous co-passengers – NASASpaceFlight.com
- Isro’s PSLV C43 launches India’s first hyperspectral imaging sat along with 30 foreign satellites – Times of India
- PSLV-C43 successfully launches HysIS and 30 customer satellites – ISRO
- PSLV-C43 / HysIS Mission – ISRO
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of over 60 smallsats previously scheduled for launch on the same day as the PSLV was postponed to next Sunday due to high altitude winds. (See earlier posting about the two missions.)
Now targeting December 2 for launch of Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 29, 2018
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Meanwhile, South Korea successfully carried out a suborbital launch of a single-staged rocket. The goal of the flight was to test a domestically developed 75 ton thrust engine that will be used for the three-stage orbital Korea Space Launch Vehicle-2 (KSLV-2). The kerosene/liquid oxygen powered engine appears to have performed as planned:
See
- Korea successfully flight-tests rocket engine – Korea Times
- S. Korea successfully tests space rocket engine – yna.co.kr
- Korea Successfully Tests Homegrown Space Rocket Engine – The Chosun Ilbo
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