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Isro, Nasa in talks to develop radar satellite
While India’s Mars Mission has set off on its maiden journey, here’s another space project on the cards. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) and Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) are in talks to jointly develop a dual frequency radar satellite.
The project will augment remote sensing technology infrastructure, say senior Isro officials. “In what will be a first-of-its-kind endeavour, the satellite will be able to operate in two frequencies, both in bands lower than KU-Band or AA-Band,” a senior scientist at the space agency said.
Stating that Isro has already conducted preliminary talks with Nasa’s space communications and navigation program office for the project, another scientist said that Isro will provide the spacecraft for the project. While the US will supply the L-band, India will take care of the S-band.
Commenting on the project, expected to see the light of day sometime in 2020 or later, Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan said: “It’ll be a synthetic aperture radar. It’ll change the way things are done.”
Nasa, while confirming that its office has had “…initial discussions on a potential deep space communication programme,” maintained that the talks are in too preliminary a stage for the US agency to comment further.
Sources in Isro said the satellite will help enhance remote sensing by improving the resolution of images. Isro also plans to develop remote sensing satellites with more autonomy, enabling them to identify areas of focus. “Today, satellites send us an array of images and we have to pick areas of importance. In future, we would like to have smart satellites,” a senior official said. The exact application of the L-Band is being worked out, the official added.
The space agencies are also exploring possible co-operation in the fields of heliophysics (physics of the Sun). Isro has Aditya-1, a proposed scientific mission designed to study the solar corona, in the pipeline. “The objective of the project is to achieve a fundamental understanding of the physical processes that heat the corona, accelerate the solar wind and produce coronal mass ejections,” Isro said.
Once cleared, Aditya-1 will be launched into an 800-km polar orbit, and the agency will again use the trusted Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) platform, given the designated orbit.
Link - Isro, Nasa in talks to develop radar satellite | idrw.org
While India’s Mars Mission has set off on its maiden journey, here’s another space project on the cards. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) and Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) are in talks to jointly develop a dual frequency radar satellite.
The project will augment remote sensing technology infrastructure, say senior Isro officials. “In what will be a first-of-its-kind endeavour, the satellite will be able to operate in two frequencies, both in bands lower than KU-Band or AA-Band,” a senior scientist at the space agency said.
Stating that Isro has already conducted preliminary talks with Nasa’s space communications and navigation program office for the project, another scientist said that Isro will provide the spacecraft for the project. While the US will supply the L-band, India will take care of the S-band.
Commenting on the project, expected to see the light of day sometime in 2020 or later, Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan said: “It’ll be a synthetic aperture radar. It’ll change the way things are done.”
Nasa, while confirming that its office has had “…initial discussions on a potential deep space communication programme,” maintained that the talks are in too preliminary a stage for the US agency to comment further.
Sources in Isro said the satellite will help enhance remote sensing by improving the resolution of images. Isro also plans to develop remote sensing satellites with more autonomy, enabling them to identify areas of focus. “Today, satellites send us an array of images and we have to pick areas of importance. In future, we would like to have smart satellites,” a senior official said. The exact application of the L-Band is being worked out, the official added.
The space agencies are also exploring possible co-operation in the fields of heliophysics (physics of the Sun). Isro has Aditya-1, a proposed scientific mission designed to study the solar corona, in the pipeline. “The objective of the project is to achieve a fundamental understanding of the physical processes that heat the corona, accelerate the solar wind and produce coronal mass ejections,” Isro said.
Once cleared, Aditya-1 will be launched into an 800-km polar orbit, and the agency will again use the trusted Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) platform, given the designated orbit.
Link - Isro, Nasa in talks to develop radar satellite | idrw.org
