New Delhi: Only three days before independence day, India will eventually launch the most sophisticated geo-imaging satellite (Gisat-1), which will enable better monitoring of continental children, including its borders with Pakistan and China, by intercouring the country 4-5 times a day.
The satellite will be launched on August 12 at 5:43 a.m.
from Sriharikota.
This pandemic delayed the launch of the new Geo-satellite series, which has civil and strategic interests, several times since last year.
The ISRO GSLV-F10 rocket will eventually put 2,268 kg Gisat-1, with the EOS-3 code code, to geo-orbit.
This will be the first launch of India from the main satellite this year.
On February 28, ISRO has launched 18 small satellites, including several Desi satellites, along with Amazonia-1’s main satellites from Brazil.
After being placed 36,000 km above the earth in Geostationary orbit after space maneuvers, ‘eyes in the sky’ that advanced can continuously monitor interesting fields (satellites will move synchronously with the rotation of the earth and therefore will stature itier) and will provide information Real-time about large areas unlike other remote sensing satellites placed in lower orbits that come to the place only at regular intervals.
The EOS-3 will also allow fast monitoring of natural disasters, episodic and short-term events.
State Minister of Space Department Jitendra Singh, in response to questions at Rajya Sabha recently, said that the EOS-03 was able to portray the whole country 4-5 times a day.
Satellites, who are able to approach flooding and cyclone monitoring in real-time, will also allow monitoring of water bodies, plants, vegetation conditions and changes in forest cover, he said.
Satellites will have a payload imaging sensor of the six-band multispectral visible and almost infrared with a resolution of 42 meters, 158 Hyper-Spectral ribbons are visible and near infrared with a resolution of 318 meters and 256 red Hyper-Spectral short wave infrage bands with resolution 191 meters.
Exposure to 4-meter Ogive-shaped charge (hot shield) has been used in rocket for the first time, said an ISRO statement.
The satellite was previously scheduled to be launched on March 28 this year but “a small problem” forced its delay.
The launch was then estimated in April and then in May but restrictions triggered by Covid in the state where the Isro centers are delayed again.
After the launch of Gisat-1, another satellite to rise is the EOS-4 or RISEAT-1A, which is a radar imaging satellite with a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) that can take pictures in the day and night and can also see through the clouds.
Satellites with a weight of more than 1,800 kg will be launched by PSLV in September.
The satellite will play a strategic role in the country’s defense with its ability to operate on days, nights and all weather conditions.
Flight of the first development of small satellite launch vehicles (SSLV) or mini-PSLV is also scheduled for the fourth quarter of this year from Sriharikota.