ISRO had successfully launched the vehicle PSLV-C19 on 26th april 2012, carrying the RISAT-1 satellite, which Lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota(near Chennai).
India's first indigenously built all weather Radar Imaging Satellite, RISAT-1 with applications ranging from agriculture to natural disaster management is now in polar orbit after its carrier.
The PSLV-C19, was launched from the Sriharikota spaceport of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
Features of RISAT-1:
- Weight: 1,858 kg
- Heaviest satellite launched by the PSLV all launched satellites till now.
- It Can beam back imaging of the earth surface features at day and night &
under all imagined weather conditions. - State of the art Active Microwave Remote Sensing Satellite carrying a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) that will operate in the C-band.
- SAR, which gives the RISAT-1 its magical roving eyes, also makes it superior to the generation of optical remote sensing satellites in clearer imaging at all times and under any condition.
- ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan said the RISAT-1 was precisely injected into an orbit in an altitudinal range of about 480 km.
- The PSLV C-19 is the 21st flight in the PSLV series of satellite launches.
- The 20th consecutive successful launch
- The third to involve the high-end version (PSLV-XL) equipped with six extended strap-on motors, each carrying 12 tonnes of solid propellant.
- The two earlier flights of the PSLV-XL were used to launch Chandrayaan-1 and the GSAT-12 communication satellite.
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