It's unclear if the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle deployed its two payloads into a stable orbit.
called AzaadiSAT. This little spacecraft was loaded with 75 different payloads, which were built by female students across India to perform a variety of"femto-experiments."
"The payloads include a UHF-VHF transponder working in ham radio frequency to enable voice and data transmission for amateur radio operators, a solid state PIN diode-based radiation counter to measure the ionizing radiation in its orbit, a long-range transponder and a selfie camera," ISRO officials wrote in the mission description.
As its name indicates, the SSLV is designed to launch relatively small satellites; the rocket can loft up to 1,100 pounds to low Earth orbit , according to ISRO officials. When the SSLV comes fully online, India will have three rockets in its current fleet. The two others are the 144-foot-tall , which can haul up to 3,860 pounds to a sun-synchronous polar orbit, and the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle , which can take 11,000 pounds to LEO or 5,500 pounds to the much higher geostationary transfer orbit." , a book about the search for alien life.
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