India launches RISAT-2 April 20, 2009
Posted by Shweta in Proud to be an Indian.trackback
Sriharikota became witness to another milestone achieved by ISRO as the PSLV-C12 rocket, continuing with its precise and on-the-dot performance, launched the RISAT-2 and ANUSAT satellites into orbit.
It is known that Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT-2) will help in monitoring the nation’s borders on a round-the-clock basis, irrespective of day, night, rough weather conditions including cloud cover conditions. The capacity of imaging under cloud cover conditions is the first of a kind in Indian satellites.
The micro educational ANUSAT is supposed to help in monitoring the land conditions and other educational aspects. This is the first satellite built in-house by an Indian University.
How this news makes me happy is that we have one more set of eyes at our borders, one more guard for watching our borders – hopefully all of them, simultaneously – thereby assisting our armed forces. We have a helping hand. Not sure if the government would like to make use of it … but I believe it would be of tremendous help to our armed forces. Not to mention or belittle the assistance in education provided by the ANUSAT.
Kudos to the brains at ISRO. May you achieve many more such feats in the year(s) to come and be the country’s scientific guiding light !!!
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Thanks for sharing this info. I hope it can check on human infiltrations and another Kargil can be avoided.