India successfully launched Resourcesat-2, X-sat and Youthsat

[bhagat]

PSLV C16: A great launch for ISRO, but to what end?

New Delhi: The new rocket launched today by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) comes with three satellites and costs Rs. 230 crores. One of the satellites - the ResourceSat-2 will help map forests glaciers, and monitor crop yields.

But is this what India really needs? Experts point out that India already has the largest constellation of 10 civilian remote sensing satellites in the world. And the government's auditor has reported that almost 90% of the photographs and images delivered by ISRO's satellites are not used. Many of these images are needed both by the government and private sector especially for development of infra-structure like roads, airports and town planning.

The report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) highlights that despite the abundance of data available via satellite images, a wasteland mapping project undertaken by ISRO had been delayed by 14 years. The project was to help in rural development.

The auditor has also found that the place where data from the satellites is processed - the National Remote Sensing Center in Hyderabad - is showing worrying levels of inefficiency as images are not being processed fast enough.


Read more at: PSLV C16: A great launch for ISRO, but to what end?

 

[punit]

GOOD JOB

 

[rajusri]

Horray to the Russian tech! India proves that it works, though not always!

Stop trolling. Is it so much difficult for you to think beyond trolling?

 

[Safriz]

the rocket looks impressive. Design resambles that of soviet energia rockets.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

PSLV has become a reliable workhorse. GSLV should be perfected.....

First of all Congrats to ISRO on this launch!!
Coupled with the news of this launch is the fact that ISRO's inquiry into the GSLV failure that has pin-pointed the cause: a shroud segment between stages failed seconds before stage separation which caused damage to the control harnesses which caused the next stage engine firing sequence to fail. So ISRO will be able to work on this problem and rectify before the next GSLV launch, thus increasing the probability of a "no-failure" launch next time. That news seems to be as important as the news of this success.

 

[rajusri]

the rocket looks impressive. Design resambles that of soviet energia rockets.

soviet enegia rocket?

this two look same to you? thank god you did not say it resembles mercedes benz!

 

[rajusri]

Singapore's first locally made satellite launched into space
AsiaOne
Wed, Apr 20, 2011

Singapore's first locally made satellite launched into space

Singapore's first micro-satellite, X-SAT, was launched into space today at 12.42 pm from a space centre in Andhra Pradesh, India.

It was lifted off onboard India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C16 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.

The X-SAT was developed and built by the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) - in collaboration with DSO National Laboratories.

According to a statement released by NTU, the micro-satellite was one of the two "piggyback" mission satellites loaded on the PSLV-C16 rocket.

The PSLV-C16 successfully inserted the X-SAT into its planned orbit around the Earth.

"We are delighted with the successful launch of Singapore's first experimental micro-satellite into space. This represents a huge leap for our local research and development endeavours in space technology and building micro-satellites," said NTU President Dr Su Guaning.

"We hope that the successful launch of X-SAT will excite and inspire more of our youths to take up engineering, and possibly venture into space technology".

The NTU team members involved in the X-SAT project are currently trying to establish communication contact with the satellite from the Mission Control Station at NTU's Research Techno Plaza.

Once contact with X-SAT is established, an initial health status of the satellite will be ascertained and confirmed.

This experimental micro-satellite carries three payloads, namely an imaging system, an advanced navigation experimental set-up, and a parallel processing unit for image processing experiments.

Weighing 105kg, the X-SAT is designed to demonstrate technologies related to satellite based remote sensing and onboard image processing. It has a mission life of three years.

 

[conworldus]

India definitely has a cost advantage on small satellite launches.

 

[GORKHALI]

the rocket looks impressive. Design resambles that of soviet energia rockets.

Yep!!it's so easy to copy those design ,even you can do this rather than some big dreams which still hasn't left Earth atmosphere and some Challenger Space shuttle kinda thing taking off only in Space agency website

 

[RoYaL~GuJJaR]

Congrats Brothers............

ISRO ROCK!!!!!!

 

[blackops]

Horray to the Russian tech! India proves that it works, though not always!

god knows why but j 11 looks like su 27 doesnt it

 

[Mirza Jatt]

Singapore delighted at ISRO's launch of X-Sat

The news of India's success in launching Singapore's experimental satellite, X-Sat, was greeted with delight here on Wednesday.

The Nanyang Technological University (NTU), which played a role in charting Singapore's tryst with the outer space, said India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C16 placed the 105-kg X-Sat in the “planned orbit around the Earth.”

Built by NTU

Singapore's “first indigenous micro-satellite” was “developed and built” by the NTU in “collaboration with DSO National Laboratories,” a defence research and development organisation here.

The mission control station at the NTU's Research Techno Plaza started trying to establish contact with X-Sat shortly after it was sky-rocketed into a pre-determined orbit.

Three payloads

“X-Sat carries three payloads” and “research associated with earth remote-sensing applications” would be carried out during the “mission life of three years,” it was said.

“Huge leap for research”

NTU president Su Guaning said: “We are delighted with the successful launch of Singapore's first experimental micro-satellite into space. This represents a huge leap for our local research and development endeavours in space technology and [in] building micro-satellites.”

Dr. Su expressed hope that the space venture “will excite and inspire our youths.”

The Hindu : News / International : Singapore delighted at ISRO's launch of X-Sat

 

[TEXAS BATTLESTAR]

Congratulation to ISRO on your successful launch! Does the PSLV rocket uses solid fuel or liquid, just wondering?

 

[conworldus]

Yep!!it's so easy to copy those design ,even you can do this rather than some big dreams which still hasn't left Earth atmosphere and some Challenger Space shuttle kinda thing taking off only in Space agency website

Same as the accusation that Chinese equipment resemble this resemble that. People even say the J-20 resemble the F-22 (even though they are so different). Complicated machines cannot really be copied.

 

[lepziboy]

Congratulation to ISRO on your successful launch! Does the PSLV rocket uses solid fuel or liquid, just wondering?

Both.If I remember right 2nd and 4th stage use liquid and 1st and 3rd solid