The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is set to launch the final mission of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) for the year. The PSLV-C54 mission will lift off from the first launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota with nine satellites, which include 8 nanosatellites.

This will be the 56th flight of the PSLV from India and the fifth and final launch of the vehicle in 2022. The 44.4 meter rocket will launch with a lift-off mass of 321 tonnes with its primary satellite being the Earth Observation Satellite-6, also dubbed the Oceansat-3.

The satellite will be deployed in the sun-synchronous orbit, which is a kind of polar orbit where satellites traveling over the polar regions are synchronous with the Sun. This means they are synchronized to always be in the same fixed position relative to the Sun. According to the European Space Agency, the sun-synchronous orbit ensures that the satellite always visits the same spot at the same local time
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