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Top 10 facts about RISAT-1, India's own 'spy satellite'
New Delhi: After a highly successful launch of the Agni V, India today successfully launched its own 'spy satellite' RISAT-1. It was powered by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from Sriharikota at 5.47 am this morning. Here are the top 10 facts on RISAT-1:
1. Weighing at 1528 Kg, RISAT-1 is the heaviest satellite ever launched by India.
2. It will be powered by a 321 tonnes rocket, the most powerful Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
3. This is the third time that ISRO is using a PSLV-XL (Extra Large) rocket. It was first used in October 2008 to put Chandrayaan-1 in orbit and again in July 2011 during the communication satellite GSAT-12 launch.
4. The indigenously made satellite has day and night viewing capacity and will not be blinded by cloud cover.
5. RISAT-1 will help in crop monitoring and flood forecasting. It will give India the ability for continuous surveillance.
6. The satellite carries a C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload, operating in a multi-polarisation and multi-resolution mode to provide images with coarse, fine and high spatial resolutions. It has a best resolution of up to 1 m
7. It has taken ISRO 10 years to make this sophisticated satellite. So far PSLV has consecutive 19 successful launches.
8. The total cost of mission is about 500 crores. While the cost of the rocket is about 120 crores, the satellite costs around 380 crores. However, none of them are insured.
9. The project Director N Valarmathi, is the first woman to head a remote sensing satellite project, and the second to be the satellite project director at ISRO.
10. Apart from RISAT-1, India already has another spy satellite RISAT-2 acquired from Israel which was launched in 2009.
Jai Bharat!
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Top 10 facts about RISAT-1, India's own 'spy satellite'
1. Weighing at 1528 Kg, RISAT-1 is the heaviest satellite ever launched by India.
Jai Bharat!
How come none of our good neighbours and well wishers have not congratulated us yet??
If the launch had failed, it would have been a troll-fest in here by now..