Mohali’s stamp on ISRO’s satellite mission

Mohali, August 17

The recent launch of EOS-08 Earth Observation Satellite onboard the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV)-D3 has indigenously designed and fabricated devices from Semiconductor Laboratory, Mohali, onboard SSLV-D3/EOS-08. The Three Bending Mode Accelerometer and PRT in Multi Chip Module along with 36 Multi Core Reconfigurable Data Acquisition System have been used in the project.

Launched from the first launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, on Friday at 9:17am, the third developmental flight carrying the satellite (EOS-08) along with a passenger satellite SR-0 DEMOSAT was successfully placed into the intended orbit as planned. It took around 17 minutes for the satellite, with a mission life of one year, to enter the 475km Circular Low Earth Orbit.

The ISRO’s project is a step ahead in the satellite-based surveillance, disaster monitoring, environmental monitoring, flood detection, in-land water body detection and other applications.

On August 23, 2023, during the Chandrayaan-3 mission, the SCL fabricated Vikram Processor (1601 PE01) was used for LVM3 launch vehicle navigation and CMOS Camera Configurator (SC1216-0) was flown onboard as Vikram Lander imager camera. — TNS