Another proud moment for the country, India preparing to launch so many satellites this year

Another proud moment for the country, India preparing to launch so many satellites this year 

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is likely to launch 7 satellites during the current year and the cost of acquiring the satellites is around Rs 490 crore. This was informed to the Parliament on Wednesday.

Written Reply To Parliament

Union Minister of Science and Technology Jitendra Singh in a written reply to Lok Sabha said, “ISRO launched Earth Observation Satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota on February 14, 2022, with INS-2TD and InspireSat-1 as co-passengers. EOS-4 has been successfully launched on PSLV-C52. The satellites were injected into a polar Sun Synchronous Orbit at an altitude of 524.84 km.

Mission expenditure is about Rs 490 crore

"At present, the satellites are undergoing test and calibration in various orbits and subsequently the available data from the satellites will be used during the designated mission life to achieve the mission objectives," he said. The total time taken for the realization of the satellite is 63 months from the date of approval. The financial and expenditure for the acquisition of the satellite is about Rs 490 crore.

EOS-4 is a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging satellite for Earth observation, operating in the C-band at 5.4 GHz frequency, for applications in the fields of agriculture, disaster management, water resources, and forestry. INS-2TD is the first satellite of the second-generation nanosatellites, which aims to demonstrate indigenously developed nanosystems for in-orbit demonstration.

Developed To Study The Sun

The Minister said that InspireSat-1 is a Class 9U student satellite, jointly developed by the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram and the Space Physics Laboratory of the University of Colorado, Boulder, the USA for the study of ionosphere dynamics and the Sun. has been developed.