India to put three satellites in space this year - Busy time for ISRO
India to put three satellites in space this year:
Tirupati, Jan 21 : India would put into space three satellites-- one for mapping applications and the other two with multiple uses-- this year, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair said here today.
Inaugurating a three-day colloquim on international network of tropical atmosphere radars (INTRA), Nair told reporters that ISRO will launch the CAROSAT-I in March end or April first week from Sriharikota.
The INSAT-4A and INSAT-4B would be launched from Kourou in French Guyana in June and December this year respectively.
No country in the world has space based system capacity to detect or predict natural calamities such as earthquake or its after-effects like Tusnami, he said, admitting that the ISRO had not been aware of the recent killer Tsunami.
'The Tsunami is an unexpected event that comes once in a century. Even the developed countries' satellites cannot pick up the images of the waves of the Tsunami as the height of the waves is very minimum,' he said.
ISRO is looking at developing data collection platform that can warn about Tsunami, a little bit in advance. Now, there were 200 weather centres in the country and 200 more such centres would soon be set up even in the ocean to know about the cyclones and typhoons in advance, he said.
The 3.5 lakh km long unmanned lunar mission by India will be conducted from Bangalore in 2007 end at a cost of Rs 380 crore. PTI
Tirupati, Jan 21 : India would put into space three satellites-- one for mapping applications and the other two with multiple uses-- this year, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair said here today.
Inaugurating a three-day colloquim on international network of tropical atmosphere radars (INTRA), Nair told reporters that ISRO will launch the CAROSAT-I in March end or April first week from Sriharikota.
The INSAT-4A and INSAT-4B would be launched from Kourou in French Guyana in June and December this year respectively.
No country in the world has space based system capacity to detect or predict natural calamities such as earthquake or its after-effects like Tusnami, he said, admitting that the ISRO had not been aware of the recent killer Tsunami.
'The Tsunami is an unexpected event that comes once in a century. Even the developed countries' satellites cannot pick up the images of the waves of the Tsunami as the height of the waves is very minimum,' he said.
ISRO is looking at developing data collection platform that can warn about Tsunami, a little bit in advance. Now, there were 200 weather centres in the country and 200 more such centres would soon be set up even in the ocean to know about the cyclones and typhoons in advance, he said.
The 3.5 lakh km long unmanned lunar mission by India will be conducted from Bangalore in 2007 end at a cost of Rs 380 crore. PTI
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