NEW DELHI: Chandrayaan-3, the moon mission of India, skilled a delay of 4 seconds throughout launch to forestall doable collisions with particles objects and satellites, as disclosed in a latest report by the Indian Area Analysis Organisation (Isro) on Friday.
The chairperson of Isro, S Somanath, introduced the Indian Area Situational Evaluation Report (ISSAR) for 2023, an annual abstract of the house situation, which was compiled by Isro System for Protected and Sustainable Area Operations Administration (IS4OM) on April 2.
The house company report mentioned, “For LVM3-M4/ Chandrayaan-3, the nominal lift-off needed to be delayed by 4 seconds based mostly on COLA evaluation to keep away from shut approaches between a particles object and the injected satellites of their orbital section because of overlapping operational altitudes.”
The report confused on the vulnerability of house property to numerous environmental hazards, resembling asteroids, comets, meteoroids, and synthetic house objects.
The report learn, ” Area property working in outer house are susceptible to numerous environmental hazards- pure objects like asteroids, comets, and meteoroids, vitality and particle flux, and synthetic house objects. Due to this fact, continuous consciousness of the house setting and its future evolution, particularly Area Situational Consciousness (SSA), turns into a necessary prerequisite for secure and sustainable operations in outer house.”
Indian Area Situational Evaluation Report states

  • The variety of operational satellites owned by the Authorities of India is 22 in LEO (Low Earth Orbit) and 29 in GEO (Geo-synchronous Earth Orbit) as of Dec 31 2023.
  • Three Indian deep house missions had been additionally energetic by the top of 2023, particularly, Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter, Aditya-L1, and the Propulsion Module of Chandrayaan-3.
  • A complete of 21 Indian satellites have re-entered the ambiance until the top of 2023.
  • Within the yr 2023 alone, 8 Indian satellites have re-entered the ambiance, amongst them Megha-tropiques-1 underwent managed re-entry by way of an immensely difficult train.
  • A complete of 82 rocket our bodies from Indian launches had been positioned in orbit until 2023. The higher stage of PSLV-C3 underwent an unintentional break-up in 2001 and generated 371 particles. Whereas most of those fragments have re-entered the ambiance, 52 PSLV-C3 particles had been nonetheless in orbit until the top of 2023.
  • Among the many intact Indian higher levels, 35 rocket our bodies re-entered the Earth’s ambiance until 2023 finish, and 5 such re-entries came about in 2023.
  • Within the yr 2023, all seven launches of ISRO, particularly SSLV-D2/EOS7, LVM3-M3/ONEWEB_II, PSLV-C55/ TeLEOS-2, GSLV-F12 NVS-01, LVM3-M4/ Chandrayaan-3, PSLV-C56/ DS-SAR, and PSLV-C57/Aditya L-1, had been profitable.
  • A complete of 5 Indian satellites, 46 overseas satellites, and eight rocket our bodies (together with POEM-2) had been positioned of their supposed orbits.
  • A complete of 127 Indian satellites, together with these from personal operators/educational establishments, have been launched until thirty first December 2023, for the reason that starting of the Indian house period.

Area Object Proximity Evaluation report
Isro conducts analyses utilizing IS4OM/ ISTRAC to forecast close to approaches of different house objects to Indian house property. If there’s a essential shut method, collision avoidance manoeuvres (CAM) are carried out to guard the operational spacecraft. Listed here are the pertinent statistics for the yr 2023.
The lift-off for PSLV-C56/ DS-SAR was additionally postponed by 1 minute to forestall any shut approaches between Starlink satellites and the injected satellites of their orbital section.



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