On Sunday, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will launch LVM3, the country’s biggest rocket, for the second time in a commercial project from Sriharikota’s Satish Dhawan Space Center.
The “LVM3-M3/OneWeb India-2 Mission” will be the LVM3 rocket’s sixth overall flight and second trip into Low Earth Orbit (between 400-2000 km above earth).
Notably, the dates of October 23, 2022, and March 26, 2022, are the smallest time period during which ISRO will launch two LVM3 rocket flights. To achieve the targets set by the customer OneWeb, whose satellites are being launched, this swift execution is required.
The OneWeb Satellites:
OneWeb is a constellation of satellites that orbits the Earth and aims to offer universal broadband internet. The UK company is assembling a constellation of LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites. OneWeb’s largest investor and shareholder is the Indian company Bharti Enterprises.
The deployment of its first constellation will be finished on Sunday with the 18th launch, enabling it to offer services all over the world. In a mission detail, ISRO stated, “OneWeb will soon be ready to roll out its global coverage.” In order to prevent inter-plane collisions, the 150 kilogramme satellites are divided into 12 planes that are four kilometres apart in height.
The company severed ties with Roscosmos to launch its satellite constellation due to the conflict in Ukraine, and this will be India’s second satellite launch in the past year.
LVM-III:
LVM-III is a three-stage launch vehicle that consists of the L110 liquid stage, the C25 cryogenic stage, the equipment bay (EB), and the Encapsulated assembly as well as two solid propellant S200 strap-ons (EA). According to ISRO, the spacecraft, the payload adaptor (PLA), and the payload fairing make up the encapsulated assembly.
The rocket weights 640 tonnes at liftoff. The Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle Mark-III, the heaviest launch vehicle in India, has been called LVM-III (GSLV-MkIII).
The rocket’s name was changed from GSLV to LVM only because it won’t be used to launch satellites into geosynchronous orbit. The OneWeb satellites travel in Low Earth Orbit at a distance of 1,200 kilometres (LEO).
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