Sriharikota (AP), : ISRO Chairman Dr K Sivan on Wednesday
said there were several new features in RISAT-2B, an advanced radar imaging
earth observation satellite, that was successfully launched by PSLV-C46 from
the SHAR Range.
Addressing the scientists after the successful mission, Dr Sivan said
‘I am extremely happy to announce that PSLV-C46 has successfully
injected RISAT-2B precisely in the designated orbit of 555 km, with
an inclination of 37 deg.’
‘This particular mission was really important in the sense that PSLV
has crossed a landmark of launching 50 tonnes into space, comprising
350 satellites so far, out of which 47 belongs to National satellites and
the remaining students and foreign satellites.
Dr Sivan said RISAT-2B is having expanded Synthetic Aperture Radar
(SAR) making it an advanced earth observation satellite, operating
in spotlight mode, script mode and mosaic mode.
This PSLV in addition to the main paylod RISAT-2B, carried two important
payloads as piggy back. The first being indigenously developed and realised
“Vikram computer chip to be used in the future rockets.
It was made by the semi conductor lab.
The second being low cost lens called INS that would revolutionise future
launch vehicle missions.
‘In this satellite, another very important and very complex technology
that was demonstrated is 3.6 m unfurlable radio grip antenna, which is
also a future technology’, Dr Sivan said.
He said the next mission for ISRO was the landmark Chandrayaan-2 the
launch of which was scheduled between July 9 and 16 with expected
landing on the moon on September six.
Subsequently, ISRO will launch high resolution CARTOSAT-3, along
with couple of new developments are going to happen that included
demonstration of the second reusable launch vehicle technology and
the cost effective Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) in the next
few months.
UNI.
