After several hurdles that postponed its launch by a year, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is all set to launch the new state-of-the-art Geo Imaging satellite GISAT-1 onboard the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-F10.
GSLV-F10) rocket next week. The satellite will give a huge boost to India’s capabilities in many areas. An ISRO official while describing the importance of the GISAT-1 satellite said, “It is going to be a game-changer in some sense for India,” a space department official said. The weight of GISAT-1 is 2,268 kg. Here are the 5 top questions you need to know about the GISAT-1 satellite: Also Read: CBSE Board’s Marks Verification Formula released, if you are not happy with the 10th-12th numbers then do this
1. What benefit/purpose will the GISAT-1 satellite bring?
There are three major ones: First, the high resolution cameras on the satellite will allow the country to continuously, in real time, monitor the Indian land mass and oceans, paying special attention to its borders, especially in cloud-free conditions. Secondly, it will help in quick monitoring of natural calamities. Third, it will receive spectral signatures of agriculture, forestry, mineralogy, disaster warning and oceanography. Also Read: Indian Railways: Change Reservation rules, Now change the date of travel without canceling the ticket
2. What is the time and date of GISAT-1 satellite launch?
The launch date is August 12th. “We have planned GSLV-F10 launch on August 12 at 05.43 am, subject to weather conditions,” an ISRO official said. Also Read: Amazon launches a new patch to protect Kindle
3. What will be the orbit of GISAT-1 satellite?
GISAT-1 will be put into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit by GSLV-F10 and later, it will be placed in a final geostationary orbit about 36,000 km above the Earth’s equator. Experts said that there are some major advantages of placing an agile earth observation satellite in geostationary orbit. Also Read: Good news for 6.5 crore PF account holders! 8.5% interest money will be credited in the account soon, know what EPFO said
4. Why did the GISAT-1 schedule get derailed several times?
GISAT-1 will be only the second launch by ISRO in the COVID-19-hit 2021. ISRO successfully launched PSLV-C51 mission on 28 February along with Brazilian Earth observation satellite Amazonia-1 and 18 others. Also Read: pmkisan.gov.in ! You dont have received 2000 rupees of pmkisan scheme then complaint this number
GISAT-1 was initially scheduled to be launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center (SDSC) SHAR in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh, about 100 km north of Chennai, on March 5, 2021, but was scrapped just a day before the explosion. Also Read: BSNL Great Plan: Get 36GB data and free calling for just Rs 97, you will get many benefits
was done. because of a glitch. Subsequently, it went into delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic which prevented employees from coming to the office. The new launch date announced then was March 28, 2021, but again a problem with the satellite forced the launch to be cancelled. Dates were set for an April and May launch, but these too passed without any success. Now it is expected that this will be the last time ISRO will have to fix the date of lift-off.
