Lauding the space cooperation with India, the Singapore high commissioner to India, Simon Wong tweeted, “Congratulations to @isro for launching the PSLV-C56 successfully this morning. The rocket also placed seven satellites developed by DSTA, ST Engineering, our universities and private industry into orbit. To bold new frontiers in the India-Singapore space partnership! – HC Wong.”
The Indian High Commission in Singapore tweeted on Sunday, “India-Singapore space partnership marks another milestone with the launch of 7 Singaporean satellites by Indian space agency ISRO today.”
PSLV-C56 / DS-SAR is the dedicated commercial mission of NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) for ST Engineering in Singapore. DS-SAR, a radar imaging earth observation satellite that is the primary satellite for the mission, has been developed under a partnership between DSTA (representing the Singapore Government) and ST Engineering. Once deployed and operational, it will be used to support the satellite imagery requirements of various agencies within the Singapore government. ST Engineering will use it for multi-modal and higher responsiveness imagery and geospatial services for their commercial customers. DS-SAR carries a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI).
Isro said that it will allow the DS-SAR to provide for all-weather day and night coverage, and is capable of imaging at 1m resolution at full polarimetry.
In addition to the primary satellite, there were 6 co-passenger customer satellites also belonging to Singapore. Six co-passengers are VELOX-AM, a 23 kg technology demonstration microsatellite; Atmospheric Coupling and Dynamics Explorer (ARCADE), an experimental satellite; SCOOB-II , a 3U nanosatellite flying a technology demonstrator payload; NuLIoN by NuSpace, an advanced 3U nanosatellite enabling seamless IoT connectivity in both urban & remote locations; Galassia-2, a 3U nanosatellite that will be orbiting at low earth orbit and an ORB-12 STRIDER , satellite is developed under an International collaboration.