India mulls launching series of military satellites

[trident2010]

India mulls launching series of military satellites

V.K. Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to Raksha Mantri, Secretary, Department of Defence R&D and DG DRDO during an inauguration function in Bangalore on Saturday.



India plans to launch a series of indigenously built military satellites with surveillance, imaging and navigation capabilities to keep a watch on its neighbourhood and help guide cruise missiles, a top defence scientist said on Saturday.

“There will be a series of (defence) satellites. I cannot give you the numbers because they are classified,” V.K. Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, said here.

“Each year, you will find one or two satellites going up,” added the Secretary, Defence R & D and Director General of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

Mostly, these satellites are dedicated to different defence applications and would have payloads which are for surveillance, imaging, navigation and communication.

“You should be able to see with very high resolution and precision the movements of troops and things like that (in the neighbourhood),” Mr. Saraswat said. “You should be able to see what are the new buildings and new facilities which have come up”.

India would be able to send data and commands through these satellites to cruise missiles. “So it will have tremendous applications”, he said.

These defence satellites would be indigenously built and launched from home soil only given the “security sensitivity”, Mr. Saraswat stressed.

“The Army, Navy and Air Force each have their own requirement and it won’t be appropriate to say how many each of them would need, due to security considerations,” Mr. Saraswat said.

India has taken up development and launch of these defence satellites under its space-based surveillance programme, which has a road-map for setting up satellites for all applications for the Army, Navy and Air Force, he said.

“Now, this road-map has been given to the Department of Space and the Department of Space is taking its own schedule for launching these satellites. We have only one Department of Space and we have huge requirements...,” he said.

Mr. Saraswat said India has already launched some satellites under this programme.



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[Patrician]

India has gone far beyond the stage of 'mulling'. The process has actually been set in motion.

 

[trident2010]

Yes. It seems DRDO provided ISRO with all the vital instruments and ISRO has to pack them into a satellites and launch it. We should have 10-12 dedicated satellites for defence applications.

 

[Chanakyaa]

Indeed its true...

With the launch or TES and Cartosat.. The process has already begun...

 

[rsingh]

India would be able to send data and commands through these satellites to cruise missiles. “So it will have tremendous applications”, he said.

For our beloved Brahmos.

 

[jha]

India to Launch a Series of Military Satellites Reveals ISRO​

India plans to launch a series of military satellites with surveillance, imaging and navigation capabilities to enhance the potency of the Indian Defence Forces, a top defence scientist said on Saturday. These satellites are dedicated to different defence applications and would have payloads which are for surveillance, imaging, navigation and communication.

Press Trust of India provides the following quotes of V.K. Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister:
-- "There will be a series of (defence) satellites. I cannot give you the numbers because they are classified"

-- "Each year, you will find one or two satellites going up"

-- "You should be able to see with very high resolution and precision the movements of troops and things like that"

-- "You should be able to see what are the new buildings and new facilities which have come up"

-- "India would be able to send data and commands through these satellites to cruise missiles. So it will have tremendous applications"

-- These defence satellites would be indigenously built and launched from home soil only given the "security sensitivity" Mr. Saraswat noted

-- "The Army, Navy and Air Force each have their own requirement and it won’t be appropriate to say how many each of them would need, due to security considerations"

-- "India has taken up development and launch of these defence satellites under its space-based surveillance programme, which has a road-map for setting up satellites for all applications for the Army, Navy and Air Force"

-- "Now, this road-map has been given to the Department of Space and the Department of Space is taking its own schedule for launching these satellites. We have only one Department of Space and we have huge requirements"

-- Mr. Saraswat confirmed that India has already launched some satellites under this programme.

 

[Contrarian]

This started a while back.

However, till now none of the three services have their own dedicated satellite(per news reports). It was remote sensing and comm which was shared-controlled by NTRO.

I think the Navy is to the get the first dedicated military sat(which would be controlled by the Navy itself, not NTRO or ISRO) either this year or the next.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Actually India started with the trend of multi-purpose satellites long ago, unlike the USSR and USA etc. who had dedicated military satellites e.g. the Cosmos series. For India, it was cost-effective to put different pay-loads on one satellite and secondly that did not provoke too much world attention. Now some rules of the game seem to have been changed.

 

[Gene]

India mulls launching series of military satellites


“There will be a series of (defence) satellites. I cannot give you the numbers because they are classified,” V.K. Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, said here.

“Each year, you will find one or two satellites going up,”

Mr. Saraswat said India has already launched some satellites under this programme.

About which program Mr saraswant hinting???
is there any secret military satellite program going on which is unknown !!!

indeed very sad news for our beloved enemies..

 

[Whiplash]

This started a while back.

However, till now none of the three services have their own dedicated satellite(per news reports). It was remote sensing and comm which was shared-controlled by NTRO.

I think the Navy is to the get the first dedicated military sat(which would be controlled by the Navy itself, not NTRO or ISRO) either this year or the next.

Are you sure? I heard the Risat 2 recon satellite was an IAF only thing.

 

[BS_Buster]

India to launch series of military satellites - Hindustan Times

India to launch series of military satellites
Press Trust Of India
Bangalore, October 10, 2010
First Published: 19:44 IST(10/10/2010)
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India plans to launch a series of indigenously built military satellites with surveillance, imaging and navigation capabilities to keep a watch on its neighbourhood and help guide cruise missiles, a top defence scientist said today. "There will be a series of (defence) satellites. I cannot give you
the numbers because they are classified," V K Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, said here.

"Each year, you will find one or two satellites going up," added the Secretary, Defence R & D and Director General of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

Mostly, these satellites are dedicated to different defence applications and would have payloads which are for surveillance, imaging, navigation and communication.

"You should be able to see with very high resolution and precision the movements of troops and things like that (in the neighbourhood)," Saraswat said. "You should be able to see what are the new buildings and new facilities which have come up".

India would be able to send data and commands through these satellites to cruise missiles. "So it will have tremendous applications", he said.

These defence satellites would be indigenously built and launched from home soil only given the "security sensitivity", Saraswat stressed.

"The Army, Navy and Air Force each have their own requirement and it won't be appropriate to say how many each of them would need, due to security considerations," Saraswat said.

India has taken up development and launch of these defence satellites under its space-based surveillance programme, which has a road-map for setting up satellites for all applications for the Army, Navy and Air Force, he said.

"Now, this road-map has been given to the Department of Space and it is making its own schedule for launching these satellites. We have only one Department of Space and we have huge requirements...," he said.

Saraswat said India has already launched some satellites under this programme.

 

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