Survey and Analysis of Payloads for Missions on PSLV’s Orbital Platform
Ranade, Aniruddha R,
Sikka, Anmol,
Bhansali, Sanskriti,
Prathiksh, KT Prajwal,
Kanabar, Millen,
Zacharia, Shaun,
and others,
In AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum
2021
In this paper, prospects of the utilization of the 4th stage of ISRO’s PSLV, after the completion of the launch mission, as an orbital platform, to host scientific payloads have been discussed. Payloads from 4 domains - Technological Demonstration, Earth Observation, Microgravity, Biology Experiments and the associated mission concepts have been surveyed, and comments have been made on their suitability to be launched onboard the orbital platform. Technological challenges in achieving these have been highlighted. Based on this analysis, two technology demonstration missions have been proposed by the team.
