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India launches Military, Education satellites successfully

by israeli.agent | April 19, 2009 at 08:33 pm

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Indian launched one military surveillance satellite made by Israel that, that has Radar Imaging capability, along with an education satellite. The Radar Imaging Satellite - 2 is the first of its kind in India. This uses Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) developed by Israel Aerospace Industries that can receive and process signals to take images of Earth in any weather.

The launch took place at 6:45 Indian Standard Time from the spaceport in Srihrikota, Andhra Pradesh.

SRIHARIKOTA: India's all-weather defence surveillance satellite, radar imaging satellite (RISAT-2), and the micro education satellite Anusat were

successfully placed into orbit by an Indian rocket that flew from the spaceport here early Monday morning.

At 6.45 a.m., the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) soared up in the sky, defying gravity with a deep throated growl, with 340 kg of luggage - 300-kg RISAT and 40-kg Anusat.

After 17 minutes into the flight guided by ISRO developed navigation systems, the 229-tonne rocket slung RISAT at 540-km above the earth and Anusat 10-km futher into its intended cicular orbit two mintues later.

Immediately after their ejections, the Spacecraft Control Centre at Bangalore with the help of ISTRAC network of stations at Bangalore, Lucknow, Mauritius and in other places monitored the satellite's health.