ISRO to launch Singapore’s first satellite in February

• The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is expected to launch Singapore's first satellite in orbit next month.
• Experts estimated that the delay has raised the cost of satellite four-fold to more than 40 million Singaporean dollar from earlier estimates of 10 million, according to a report in The Straits Times on Tuesday.
• The X-Sat would ride on Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) which has made 17 launches since its maiden flight in 1993, and has successfully put 38 satellites into the space out of the 40.
• The X-Sat, a refrigerator-sized micro satellite, would be in orbit for three years at a height of 800 km.
• It would take photographs to measures soil erosion and environmental changes on Earth, then relay them to a ground station at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU).