A PSLV-CA launch vehicle (flight PSLV-C55) launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, India at 0849 GMT on 22 April 2022. The flight was made under NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) – a commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It carried Singapore’s TeLEOS-2, a radar imaging satellite, and the cubesat LUMELITE-4 for the National University of Singapore. The PSLV upper stage will remain in orbit with an experimental platform dubbed POEM-2, carrying seven additional hosted payloads. The planned low Earth orbit 618 x 588 km orbit at 9.9 degrees inclination was achieved.
PSLV-CA on flight PSLV-C55 shows condensation cloud during its climb. Courtesy: ISRO
