Mission At-A-Glance

• Customers: iQPS, Spire Global
• Launch Vehicle: PSLV
• Launch Location: India’s Satish Dhawan Space Center
• Total spacecraft: 5

PSLV C48 carried Japan’s iQPS QPS-SAR satellite, a small high-resolution SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) Earth observation satellite and four multi-payload Earth observation nanosatellites that added to Spire Global’s constellation of maritime, aviation and weather monitoring satellites.