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TDS-01
PSLV XL · Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
Liftoff in 16 days 17 h, time to be confirmed
- Liftoff
- Status
- Time to be confirmed
- Vehicle
- PSLV XL
- Pad
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad
- Location
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India
- Orbit
- Geostationary Transfer
- Mission type
- Technology
- Provider
- ISRO
The mission
PSLV XL is set to launch TDS-01 for ISRO from Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad in Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India, Mon, Nov 30 · 12:00 AM UTC, a time still to be confirmed. Target orbit: Geostationary Transfer. Mission type: Technology. It is ISRO's 103rd launch.
TDS 01 (Technology Demonstration Satellite 01) is an Indian geostationary orbit technology demonstration satellite carrying payloads for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s Institute of Plasma Research, Gandhinagar and the CSIR CEERI, Pilani.
Mission description from Launch Library 2.
See it on the radar: the countdown, the flight path and where to look from your ZIP code.
Can I see it?
Set your ZIP code on the radar to see how far you are from the pad.
Liftoff is before sunrise at the pad, and the rocket should climb high enough to reach sunlight while the ground below is dark. Sunlit exhaust can glow against the darker sky, the view people have reported from as far as about 590 mi (950 km).
It should head east from the pad. We guess the heading from the target orbit, so the real path can differ.
Whether you can see it depends on where you are, the weather and the exact time. Open it on Astro Radar with your ZIP code for a modeled estimate of where to look, worked out for every second of the flight. It is an estimate, not a promise.
Watch it with friends
Send TDS-01 · PSLV XL to a group chat on Astro, or make it a plan: Astro opens a new plan called Watch TDS-01 · PSLV XL with the day and time filled in, for a group or a friend. The time is still to be confirmed, so check it again before the day.
Astro asks you to sign in first, then brings you back to this launch. It gets only the launch's name, time and link, and only when you press the button. Astro is for people 18 and older.
From Launch Library 2, as of Nov 13, 6:26 AM UTC. Times and status can change; the radar has the latest.