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| India launches Israeli-built spy satellite |
| 2009-04-20 |
| India launched an Israeli-built spy satellite on Monday in order to improve surveillance following the Mumbai massacre. The 300-kilogram RISAT 2 was launched by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket from the Sriharikota launch site, 90 kilometers north of the southern city of Chennai, AFP reported. The purchase of the satellite was accelerated after the November 2008 terror attacks, which killed 165 people. "It has been successfully placed in the orbit 20 minutes after lift off this morning," G. Padmanabhan, a scientist from India's Space Research Organisation told the news agency. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #5 Lift off |
| Posted by: john frum 2009-04-20 15:58 |
| #4 It has a SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) and is in 500km LEO. |
| Posted by: john frum 2009-04-20 15:47 |
| #3 I would be prefer if it were like the satellite in James Bo,d's "Diamonds are for ever" |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-04-20 14:29 |
| #2 If it's sun-synchronous (I.E., it covers the earth at near-noon local time in each pass), it's a dedicated imint satellite. If it's NOT sun-synchronous, there are all kinds of interesting things it could be. Either way, it's probably a multiple-use satellite, capable of providing imint, sigint, comint, and maybe a few other things best left to the imagination. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-04-20 14:23 |
| #1 Zohan-1? |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-04-20 12:19 |
