Dedicated satellites for Navy, IAF to be launched soon: Antony

[IndianTiger]

NEW DELHI: Armed with the
capability of providing real
time data from multiple sites,
the dedicated communication
satellites for Indian Navy and
Air Force will be launched in the next two years,
government told the Lok
Sabha today.
In a written reply to a
question in the House, defence
minister A K Antony said, "The Naval Satellite is planned
to be launched in 2012-13... A
dedicated communication
satellite for Air Force is
planned to be launched in
2013-2014." The Tri-services Defence
Communication Network
(DCN) is being progressed as
per the Defence Procurement
Procedure (DPP). DCN
envisages a network of optical fibre cables, satellite
earth stations and
transportable and portable
satellite terminals with high
security features, he told the
House. "The design of these systems
have features that enable
conduct of simultaneous real
time networked operations
from multiple sites to cater
for contingencies and failures, as well as hardware
redundancies for fail-safe
operations," Antony said.
Replying to a question on
testing of Pinaka Multi Barrel
Rocket Launcher (MBRL) he said, "Pinaka was test fired on
28-29 March. Ten Rockets were
fired. Objective of the trial
was testing of fuse system."
Developed by DRDO, Pinaka
weapon system has already been inducted into Service
with the Indian Army raising
its two regiments.

 

[Tshering22]

Can't we just have integrated satellites for the Integrated Space Cell Command of IAF to manage?

As such there's so much space debris flying around and already so many of them have collided and fallen into Russia, Pacific and other areas. If something like that happens, we will have to pray that it doesn't fall in any of our populated zones.

 

[Angad_NSA]

cool, well done DRDO. Go go go!