The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch Singapore’s TeLEOS-2 satellite this week, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.

What is TeLEOS-2?

• TeLEOS-2 is a Singaporean Earth Observation satellite built by ST Electronics (Satellite Systems).
• It carries a made-in-Singapore Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) capable of providing 1 m resolution data.
• It will be equipped with a 500 GB onboard recorder for recording the data captured and a high speed 800 Mbps downlink.
• In 2015, ISRO launched TeLEOS-1, the first Singapore commercial Earth Observation Satellite, which was launched into a low Earth orbit for remote sensing applications.
• ISRO has so far launched nine satellites belonging to Singapore.

About the launch vehicle: PSLV-CA

• The PSLV-CA was manufactured by ISRO with the first launch on 2007-04-23.
• CA means “Core Alone”, model premiered on 23 April 2007.
• PSLV-CA has 15 successful launches and 0 failed launches with a total of 15 launches.
• The CA model does not include the six strap-on boosters used by the PSLV standard variant.
• The fourth stage of the CA variant has 400 kg less propellant when compared to its standard version.
• It currently has the capability to launch 1,100 kg to a 622 km Sun-synchronous orbit.

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