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| India launches 2.5 meter stereoscopic satellite |
| 2005-05-04 |
| The most innovative feature of the 1.6-tonne Cartosat-1 is its pair of cameras, which will give stereo images of the earth's surface that can distinguish features down to 2.5 metres across. They will directly generate three-dimensional maps that have until now been achievable only indirectly, by combining data from a large number of satellite passes over the same place. "Such a stereographic imaging system does not exist in the civil sector anywhere else," says Mr Nair, chairman of the Bangalore-based Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro). "It will give information about heights that will be very useful in applications such as planning power lines." Or mapping attack routes and id'ing targets on mountain sides near Kashmir. Cartosat-1 will join what is already the world's largest cluster of non-military remote sensing satellites. Six Indian spacecraft are already observing the earth with a wide range of instruments. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #5 Flagg, please translate for us civilians. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-05-04 20:55 |
| #4 ya think John? where's me blue and reds... |
| Posted by: Flagg 2005-05-04 19:41 |
| #3 The ability to place three satellites in different orbits from the same launch vehicle suggests technology applicable to MIRV capability on future missiles. |
| Posted by: john 2005-05-04 19:05 |
| #2 Some more birds being built Launch of CARTOSAT-2 likely by year-end Tirupati, May 3: CARTOSAT-2, the second mapping satellite with a spatial resolution of about one metre, was expected to be launched by the year-end, ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said today. The ISRO was also planning to launch the 3,800 kg INSAT-4A in July or August this year, he told reporters here. The launch of Astrosat was slated for 2007, he said. RISAT: New remote sensing satellite M D Riti in Bangalore | June 09, 2003 17:23 IST The Indian Space Research Organisation is developing a microwave remote sensing satellite, RISAT, which enables observations even during night and under cloudy conditions. The Radar Imaging Satellite, as this new satellite will be called, will be launched in 2006, from Sriharikota, on India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. It will have a mission life of 5 years. As of now, work on developing this satellite is under way at ISRO's Satellite Centre in Bangalore. The main purpose of the RISAT is to support and augment the country's operational remote sensing programme by enhancing agricultural and disaster related applications. RISAT will carry sophisticated radars, scanners and other scientific instruments. The RISAT is to be launched into a polar sun-synchronous orbit of 609km. PSLV-C3 launched three satellites -- Technology Experiment Satellite (TES) of ISRO, BIRD of Germany and PROBA of Belgium - into their intended orbits on October 22, 2001. TES (Technology Experiment Satellite), weighing 1108 kg, is an experimental satellite to demonstrate and validate, in orbit, technologies that could be used in the future satellites of ISRO. Some of the technologies that are planned to be demonstrated in TES are attitude and orbit control system, high torque reaction wheels, new reaction control system with optimised thrusters and a single propellant tank, light weight spacecraft structure, solid state recorder, X-band phased array antenna, improved satellite positioning system, miniaturised TTC and power system and, two-mirror-on-axis camera optics. TES will also carry a panchromatic camera for remotesensing experiments. TES might be the prototype of an indian military reconnaisance satellite. |
| Posted by: john 2005-05-04 18:57 |
| #1 Info on the bird CARTOSAT-1 And HAMSAT To Be Launched By PSLV-6 On Thursday Photo of launch vehicle |
| Posted by: john 2005-05-04 18:51 |
