Web Desk, 02 September, 2016:
With 2 launches in an exceedingly month for the primary time, Asian country can place a minimum of 5 satellites in 2 completely different orbits in Gregorian calendar month, aforesaid a high official on Thursday.
"We have 2 launches this month (September), the primary is on September eight with INSAT-3DR, a orbiter for meteoric services. The second are, tentatively, on Sep 26, with four satellites, as well as our ScatSat, associate Algerian satellite and 2 smaller satellites as co-passengers," Indian area analysis Organisation (ISRO) Chairman AS Kiran Kumar told reporters at an area aggregation event here.
The satellites are launched from the state-run area agency's rocketport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, regarding eighty kilometre northeast of Chennai.
The 2.2-tonne orbiter are launched on a heavier rocket, Geo-synchronus Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV Mark II), because it are deployed in an exceedingly geosynchronous orbit at seventy four degrees East, about 36,000 kilometre from the planet.
The other four satellites are launched on the area agency's reliable workhorse, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), and deployed within the earth's lower orbits.
The orbiter can have a six-channel imager and a 19-channel device. it'll additionally carry a probe and rescue data and message relay for terrestrial information assortment platforms.
"The new satellite can augment our capability to forecast the weather patterns higher and prior to to require acceptable measures. Its search and rescue data can facilitate in coordinating disaster management," aforesaid another area official.
INSAT-3DR can supplement the meteoric and information relay services of its precursor INSAT-3D, that is operative since Gregorian calendar month twenty six, 2013.
The 370 metric weight unit ScatSat, additionally a prediction, cyclone prediction and trailing satellite, can replace the area agency Oceansat-2, that is dysfunctional when nearly 5 years of life.
"The information from this mini-satellite will be utilized by the America area agencies (NASA & NOAA) and a eu area association (EUMETSAT). it'll additionally monitor ocean surface winds and predict cyclones, that hit our coastal areas," aforesaid the official.
The 200-kg Algerian artificial satellite (Alsat-2A), that the area agency's industrial arm Antrix Corporation contracted , could be a remote-sensing satellite.
"Besides ScatSat and Alsat, two-three microsatellites can piggy ride within the PSLV and deployed within the lower orbits," the official further.
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