The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), which will be operating on a GSLV-F10 rocket on 12 August, is returning to its entire launch activities at Sriharikota Space Airport. In COVID-19hit 2021, it will be only the second launch of the space agency based in Bengaluru. The Amazon-1 earth-observing satellite of Brazil, and 18 co-passengers, some student-built, on board, launched the ISRO successfully on 28 February.
The 2,268-kg GISAT-1 was supposed to launch on March 5 from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh's Nellore district, roughly 100 kilometres north of Chennai, but it was postponed due to technical issues a day before the launch.
Following that, the launch was postponed due to COVID-19-induced lockdown, which disrupted routine operations. It was supposed to happen on March 28 this year, but it had to be postponed due to a "small glitch" with the satellite. The campaign was supposed to start in April or May, but it was cancelled due to a lockdown in areas of the country induced by the second wave of the pandemic.
The ISRO official said on Saturday that "We had tentatively planned the GSLV-F10 launch at 5.43 a.m. on August 12th, subject to weather conditions."
According to the ISRO, under cloud-free conditions, GISAT-1 will allow for near real-time, cloud-free observation of the Indian subsurface.
The Geosynchronous GSLV-F10 transmission orbit is placed in the GISAT-1 and, following that, placed on its on board propulsion system, in its final, geostatorial orbit, about 35 000 kilometres above the equator of the earth.
The ISRO official said on Saturday that "We had tentatively planned the GSLV-F10 launch at 5.43 a.m. on August 12th, subject to weather conditions."
According to the ISRO, under cloud-free conditions, GISAT-1 will allow for near real-time, cloud-free observation of the Indian subsurface.
The Geosynchronous GSLV-F10 transmission orbit is placed in the GISAT-1 and, following that, placed on its on board propulsion system, in its final, geostatorial orbit, about 35 000 kilometres above the equator of the earth.
ISO had already indicated that the satellite would provide near-real-time images of the wide area of interest at frequent intervals in the list of the mission's objectives. It would help quickly to monitor the episodic and short-term events of natural disasters. The third aim is to achieve the spectrum of farming, forestry, mineralogy, disaster warning, cloud, snow and glacier and oceanography.
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