New Delhi: After Covid’s pandemic gives a shadow over the ISRO mission for more than a year, now is the situation of flooding in Andhra Pradesh which postponed satellite launches at the Shar launch center in Sriharikota, a barrier island located in the Nellore District of the State.
ISRO sends the main satellite and rocket components from the center in Kerala and Karnataka to Sriharikota through the road to assembly and launch.
Because many arterial roads in Nellore must be closed due to floods, ISRO cannot complete the launch.
The Chair of the Isro K Sivan told TII, “We have worked on three launches, including the launch of small satellite vehicles (mini-pslv) launch, before the year ends.
But due to heavy rain and flooding in Andhra, we must rate the situation …
we can Deciding three launches only when the flood situation increased.
“Sivan, the one-year service extension as the Head of Isro is set to end on January 15 next year, saying that 2022 will be an important year for the wine body because it will witness the launch of Aditya L1 (Sun) mission , the first unmanned mission of the mission and several major satellite missions.
According to the previous schedule, the ISRO should launch its flagship rocket PSLV, carrying two Earth Observation Satellites, EOS-04 and EOS-06, as the main charge.
The third mission is the first SSLV development flight, bringing other Earth Observation of the EOS-02 satellite.
However, Andhra’s flood situation forced Isro to rethink.
Floods due to the Somasila reservoir that overflowed damaging the national highway Chennai-Kolkata-16 in Nellore and the highway must be closed after a large violation of the road in Padugupadu and also near the city of Nellore.
More than a hundred people are feared to die and property and crooking plants from the rupee have been damaged until now.
ISRO has managed to launch a commercial PSLV mission in February but the launch of the GSLV-F10 rocket carrying the EOS-03 satellite on August 12 failed as the third cryogenic stage of the launch vehicle did not start.
Compared to a successful Indian mission so far, China has carried out 40 mission launches in 2021, setting a new national record.
The successful quaizhou-1a lifter on October 27 brought China to 40 orbital launches, surpassing 39 launches conducted by the state in 2018 and 2020.
The US has been launched by 39 times this year, including the launch of the Lab Rocket from New Zealand, according to spacenews.
com.