Sriharikota: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched its Earth Observation Satellite EOS – 4 and two co-passenger technology demonstrator and scientific satellites at 5.59 am today from the first launch pad at the country’s only spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
“After a flight of about 17 minutes, 34 seconds, three satellites namely EOS-04, INSPIREsat-1 and INST-2TD were injected successfully into a sun-synchronous polar orbit of 529 km. The orbit achieved for the satellites is very close to the intended orbits,” the space agency said in a statement.
After separation, two solar arrays of EOS-04 deployed automatically and ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) in Bengaluru assumed control. The satellite will be manoeuvred to its final position and begin providing data in a few days.
This was the country’s first mission this year. In fact, it was the first mission since the failure of the GSLV F10 mission in August, 2021.
The PSLV-C52/EOS-04 mission too has been delayed twice already due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Initially planned for the third quarter of 2021, the launch got pushed to the fourth quarter and finally to early 2022.
This was the first mission of the space agency under the Chairmanship of Dr. S. Somanath, who took over as the Chairperson ISRO and Secretary Department of Space in January.
Keeping his remarks short, the Chairperson thanked his teams and said that the satellite was a big asset for the country. Dr. Somanath ended his less-than-a-minute long address with, “We will be back again with the next launch of PSLV very soon. Till then, goodbye.”
The 1,700kg EOS-04 is a radar imaging satellite capable of providing high-quality images under all weather conditions. It can be used to capture images for agriculture, forestry, flood mapping, soil moisture and hydrology. The satellite has a mission life of 10 years.
The spacecraft will also carry the INS-2DT technology demonstrator satellite, which has a thermal imaging camera and can help in the assessment of land and water surface temperatures apart from mapping vegetation.
The third InspireSat-1 satellite was developed by the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, University of Colorado, US, Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, and National Central University in Taiwan. This satellite will use two instruments to study ionosphere dynamics and the Sun’s coronal heating process.
Kudos to ISRO scientists! Silently working and making India proud!!Congratulations!
@Suresh
What is India known abroad is for its massive population, grinding poverty, corruption to the extent that a VIP is given the oxygen supply used by an ordinary patient in the hospital in last year’s Covid spread, and this ordinary patient died as a result. We saw this, as well as thousands dying for want of oxygen and their mass funeral pyres.
Sending satellites up there, when this is happening on the ground!
Read the ,’Double anguish…* by a doctor Nayeem,where he describes how even a celebrity like Lata Mangeshkar was paraded in the hospital war without any dignity.
Pathetic and third world India. Even New Zealand embassy is receiving thousands of immigration requests from Indians who want to escape your proud country! New Zeland doe snot send any satellite up there, butt has no grinding poverty and corruption.
India wants to be like China, which is a super power militarily and economically.
@Suresh
What is India known abroad is for its massive population, grinding poverty, corruption to the extent that a VIP is given the oxygen supply used by an ordinary patient in the hospital in last year’s Covid spread, and this ordinary patient died as a result. We saw this, as well as thousands dying for want of oxygen and their mass funeral pyres.
Sending satellites up there, when this is happening on the ground!
Read the ,’Double anguish…* by a doctor Nayeem,where he describes how even a celebrity like Lata Mangeshkar was paraded in the hospital war without any dignity.
Pathetic and third world India. Even New Zealand embassy is receiving thousands of immigration requests from Indians who want to escape your proud country! New Zeland doe snot send any satellite up there, butt has no grinding poverty and corruption.
India wants to be like China, which is a super power militarily and economically.
sorry typos, and somehow 2 copies of the same post appear with a single click!! Wonderful, 2 for1!!
We seem to be the only nation where there are so many negative people. If ISRO did a great job or our brave and selfless soldiers got martyred defending the unworthy thankless people, we want to praise China? In China, if you even attempt to criticize the government even secretly, you will end up in prison and very soon even your identity will be erased. May be your body parts will be alive on some others body. So, comparing the China’s success with India is idiotic. Yes, there are lot of corrupt people in india who don’t give a darn about the nation if they can loot for their personal or family welfare. That too they are disguise themselves as the champions if democracy. In which nation you can call a PMa terrorist and the defense chief a street goonda while you can’t call a convicted terrorist a terrorist? Even Supreme Court CJ is abused in social media in the name of freedom of speech. Try to do this in China and can you think of just be alive?
We should rather encourage the good people and hope there will be more of them rather than cheerleaders for the evil.
Democracy does not stop people from supporting the terror but if we go too far we may not have a nation of our own. That is how we became slaves. Pleased stop hallucinating that you will be better off under China.
@Raje Gowda
Gowdare, it seems you have difficulties in understanding what was posted above.
It is also possible that as a selfish person, most Indians are.; you do not care about ethics or morality, when sick patients are humiliated, as long as you get your money, it seems.
It appears that you are a good follower of Deve Gowda and his son Kumaranna!!
@Howdy, Modi! > I dont understand what your issue is. You say I have difficulty understanding what was posted here ? Your response makes no sense with reference to my response or for the main article. Totally unrelated!
What selfishness on my part you observed here in my response ? Was it that my saying that we should be proud of our scientists and soldiers or encouraging honest working people?
And just from my name you assumed I am a follower of Devegowda or Kumaranna. This I consider it an insult . From the same logic, are you related to Modi? What moral right you have in judging others and try to bully others ? By your responses to other articles I have seen, you seem to be an age old man and at least want to respect your age! Bipolar disorder is a common at your age! My sympathies!
@Raje Gowda
You seem to have a fewer brain cells count, if you did not understand what I posted. Do you understand the greeting words: ” Howdy Modi”. With your limited brain power, you do not. I may be an ‘age old man’ , but you behave as a young urchin who wanders in streets, annoying others.
I am now sure, you are a follower of Deve Goda and Kumaranna, from what nonsense, you have posted. Pathetic immature fool.
@Raje Gowda
You seem to have a fewer brain cells count, if you did not understand what I posted. Do you understand the greeting words: ” Howdy Modi”. With your limited brain power, you do not. I may be an ‘age old man’ , but you behave as a young urchin who wanders in streets, annoying others.
I am now sure, you are a follower of Deve Goda and Kumaranna, from what nonsense, you have posted. Pathetic immature fool.
@Raje Gowda
You seem to have a fewer brain cells count, if you did not understand what I posted. Do you understand the greeting words: ” Howdy Modi”. With your limited brain power, you do not. I may be an ‘age old man’ , but you behave as a young urchin who wanders in streets, annoying others.
I am now sure, you are a follower of Deve Goda and Kumaranna, from what nonsense, you have posted. Pathetic immature fool.
@Raje Gowda
You seem to have a fewer brain cells count, if you did not understand what I posted. Do you understand the greeting words: ” Howdy Modi”. With your limited brain power, you do not. I may be an ‘age old man’ , but you behave as a young urchin who wanders in streets, annoying others.
I am now sure, you are a follower of Deve Goda and Kumaranna, from what nonsense, you have posted. Pathetic immature fool.
I posted a reply to which @Raje Gowda replied as a rant.
He seems to be happy when these satellites photograph him urinating and defecating in his street corner!
@Howdy, Modi!
He calls himself “Raju Gowda”,not “Raje Gowda” which is an anomaly in the usage of Kannada language. Names such as ‘Rame Gowda and ‘Deve Gowda’ and ‘Krishne Gowda’ are common. Perhaps, he is pretending to be ‘Raju Gowda’, which is fine,as long as he does not use the street corner as toilets, for these satellites to snap him up!!
@Gowda confuses dementia with bipolar disorder, the former may be common with old age, and not the latter as the latter manifesta when one is younger.
@Gowda needs education, lots of it. Any way,@Howdy Modi, you would prefer to be related to Narendra Modi a far superior human being than this corrupt Deve Gowda!