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| ISRO to launch Israeli spy sat on January 2nd |
| 2007-12-21 |
| Hyderabad: Indian Space Research organization (ISRO), the country's premier centre for research and development in the field of space science and technology, will soon launch a satellite called Carto-2A to assist Cartography applications including remote sensing, ground water development etc. Speaking at the launch of India's first students' chapter of Astronautical Society of India, ISRO Deputy Director R K Rajangam said, "The satellite will reach the earth's orbit by the end of January 2008 or the first week of February". Rajangam added, "Any object wanting to be seen from less than one metre will find an application in the Carto-2A satellite. This would be particularly useful in infrastructure development of urban areas etc. The satellite will be launched using the PSLV launch vehicle." |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #4 Jan 2 - PSLV-C10 - Polaris (TecSar/TechSAR) Jan 10 - PSLV-C9 - CartoSat-2A (imaging bird); NSL-4 (CanX-2; AAU-Cubsat 2; Cute-1.7+APD II; COMPASS-1; Delfi-C3; SEEDS-2) (micro-sats) Jan ?? Rohini Sounding Rocket (RH-200) to carry air breathing engine (hypersonic scramjet prototype test) Apr 9 - PSLV-XL - Chandrayaan-1 (moon probe); MIP Jun - GSLV Mk-1(2) (C-2) - G-Sat 4 (Healthsat)(telemedicine for Indian villages) +Tauvex-2 Sep/Oct - GSLV Mk-2 (D-3) - Insat 3-D (communication bird) Sep - PSLV - AstroSat (ISRO Astronomy satellite) October - PSLV - RI-Sat 1 (Indian SAR bird) October - PSLV - OceanSat-2; SRE-2 (Indian recoverable space capsule) ?? 2008 - GSLV - GLONASS-M (Russian GPS bird) |
| Posted by: john frum 2007-12-21 18:32 |
| #3 TechSAR was supposed to be launched in November. There seems to have been technical problems with the launcher. According to reports the vehicle was destacked. One news report (denied by both Israel and India) claimed US pressure to stop the launch. With ISRO stating a launch window, looks like it is now on. |
| Posted by: john frum 2007-12-21 18:15 |
| #2 It is TechSAR aka Polaris - the first Israeli Synthetic Aperture Radar bird. Israel has decided to launch its next spy satellite aboard India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rather than on its own indigenous Shavit rocket, The TecSAR — like Israel’s Ofeq series of spy satellites — will pass over specific target areas once every 90 minutes or so. But because the satellite’s SAR payload is capable of providing high-resolution imagery during the day, at night and in all weather conditions, it will provide double the amount of usable intelligence within a 24-hour, since the Ofeq’s electro-optical camera cannot capture imagery at night or through clouds and other climatic obstacles. Middle of next year ISRO will launch Tauvex. TAUVEX is an Indo-Israeli Ultraviolet Imaging Experiment that will image large parts of the sky in the wavelength region between 1400 and 3200 Å. The instrument consists of three equivalent 20-cm UV imaging telescopes with a choice of filters for each telescope. Each telescope has a field of view of about 54' and a spatial resolution of about 6" to 10", depending on the wavelength. TAUVEX will be launched into a geostationary orbit as part of ISRO's GSAT-4 mission. |
| Posted by: john frum 2007-12-21 18:12 |
| #1 Where it says it is a spy satellite? |
| Posted by: Pholugum Stalin1270 2007-12-21 16:38 |