PSLV-C40 successfully puts in space 28 foreign small Satellites

Bengaluru, Jan 12: Demonstrating its prowess in placing multiple, micro and nano satellites of foreign origin in one go, ISRO on Friday launched PSLV-C40 which carried 28 such Satellites to the Sun synchronous orbit.

The International Customer Satellites were launched as part of the commercial arrangements between Antrix Corporation Limited (Antrix), the Commercial Arm of ISRO and the International customers.
They included one each from Canada, Finland, France, UK, five from Korea and the rest from the US.
These satellites were: Canada: Leo-1, a KA-bad communication satellite meant for demonstrating the capability of satellite and customer terminal for delivering low Latency broadband experiences. Finland: POC-1, a SAR payload proof-of-concept demonstration. France: PISAT, to measure explanatory transits. Korea: CanYVAL-X to demonstrate astronomy with virtulal telescope, CNUSAIL-1 to demonstrate Solar Sail Technology, KAUSAT-5 an infrared imaging satellite of Earth, SIGMA to demonstrate proving space radiation and Step Cub Lab to demonstrate thruster, radiator and heat pipe technologies.
UK: CBNT-2 is an Earth observation technology demonstration mission to test and validate a high definition imagery and video system. US: Flock-3P (four numbers) for Earth observation, LEMUR (four) for automatic identification system (AIS) for vessel monitoring, DEMOSAT-2 for microwave radio test, TYVAC-61C to catalog variability of luminous stars, Space BEE (four) a two-day satellite communication and data relay, Fox 1-D for amateur radio communication, Corvus BC-3 a multi-spectral remote sensing satellite, ARKYD-6 for demonstration of core technology for use of asteroid exploration and CICERO-7 to measure global weather patterns with high accuracy using a GPS radio occulation sensor.
With the launch of these 28 foreign satellites, ISRO has launched 237 customer satellites from abroad till date. UNI