ISRO has described it as an “amazing achievement”.
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Monday successfully launched Earth observation satellite EOS-04 and two small satellites through PSLV-C52 in its first launch mission of 2022. installed in the classroom. ISRO has described it as an “amazing achievement”.
The space agency’s launch vehicle PSLV took off for space at 5:59 am and placed all three satellites in space orbit. ISRO tweeted that the launch vehicle placed the satellites in the designated orbit after a flight of about 19 minutes, which was cheered by scientists closely monitoring the first mission of this year.
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It said that EOS-04 was placed in a synchronous polar orbit of the Sun at 6.17 am. After the installation of EOS-04, two smaller satellites Inspire Sat-1 and INS-2TD were also placed in their designated orbits.
ISRO Chairman S Somnath said after the successful launch, “PSLV-C52/EOS-04 mission has been successfully completed. PSLV-C52, the primary satellite EOS-04, was placed in a very precise orbit along with the satellites INSPIRE SAT-1 and INS-2TD.
Incidentally, today’s launch is also the first mission after Somnath recently took over as Secretary of the Department of Space and Chairman of the Space Commission. Thanking everyone for making this mission possible, he said, “This spacecraft will be one of the great assets for us to serve the nation.”
Mission Director SR Biju said, “What we have achieved today is truly spectacular.” Earlier, a 25-and-a-half hour countdown for today’s launch had begun at 4:29 am on Sunday. EOS-04 is a ‘radar imaging satellite’ designed to provide high quality images in all weather conditions and in applications such as agriculture, forestry and plantation, soil moisture and hydrology and flood mapping.
#WATCH , Indian Space Research Organization launches PSLV-C52/EOS-04 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota
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Its weight is 1,710 kg. PSLV also carried the INSPIRE SAT-1 satellite, which has been developed by the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) in collaboration with the Atmospheric and Space Physics Laboratory at the University of Colorado, Boulder, while the other satellite, INS-2TD, is a technology demonstrator satellite. Is. The Inspire Sat-1 satellite aims to improve the understanding of the dynamics of the ionosphere and the coronal thermal processes of the Sun. Its weight is 8.1 kg.
At the same time, INS-2TD weighing 17.5 kg, having a thermal imaging camera as an instrument, will allow the satellite to measure land surface temperature, water surface temperature of wetlands or lakes, vegetation (crops and forests) and thermal inertia (day and night). will assist in the assessment. This is the 54th flight of PSLV and the 23rd mission using the ‘PSLV-XL configuration’ with 6 PSOM-XL (strap-on motors). (agency)