New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully launched its Earth Imaging Satellite CARTOSAT-3 and 13 from US Nano Satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh’s in Sriharikota.
The heavy-lift rocket PSLV-C47 carrying 14 satellites, one from India and 13 from the US, blasted off from the space Centre in Andhra Pradesh this morning.
This is being regarded as the milestone for ISRO for launching 300 foreign satellites.
The Cartosat-3 is an agile satellite that can take high-resolution photos of the Earth. It will be placed in an orbit of 509 km.
Cartosat 3 is an advanced agile satellite to obtain panchromatic and multispectral imagery and will have an operational life of five years, ISRO said.
The satellite will replace the IRS series, according to Isro. The CARTOSAT-3 has a panchromatic resolution of 0.25 metres, which helps it conduct satellite imaging with the highest resolution. The space research organisation said this mission is a huge leap from the previous payloads in the CARTOSAT series.
The CARTOSAT-3, with an overall mass of over 1,600 kilograms, will address the increased user demand for large-scale urban planning, rural resource and infrastructure development, coastal land use and land cover.
The mission life of CARTOSAT-3 would be for five years, said the space research organisation.
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