India to launch remote sensing satellite this month-
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- Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 23:45:16 -0700 (PDT)
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India to launch remote sensing satellite this month
1 day ago
BANGALORE, India (AFP) -- India will later this month launch a remote
sensing satellite equipped with high-resolution cameras and advanced
scientific instruments, space agency officials said here.
Cartosat-2A, as the all-weather, reconnaissance satellite is called,
will be used to plan urban and rural development projects. It can also
be used for intelligence gathering, the officials said Friday.
"The tentative launch date is April 28," Indian Space Research
Organisation chairman G. Madhavan Nair told reporters in Bangalore
where the agency is based.
"The exact date and time will be finalised in a fortnight after
factoring weather and other relevant data," he added.
Identical to the mapping satellite Cartosat-2, which was launched in
January 2007, the 680-kilogram (1,500-pound) Cartosat-2A will be
placed in a polar or
bit at an altitude of 630 kilometres (391 miles).
The satellite will be launched by the Indian-developed rocket, the
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, from the Sriharikota space station in
southern India.
India started its space programme in 1963, and has since developed and
put several of its own satellites into space. It has also designed and
built launch rockets to reduce its dependence on overseas space
agencies.
Space agency chairman Nair said the body has finalised a project
report concerning a manned mission by 2014-15.
"The report is being submitted to the government for approval and
budgetary allocation," he said. "The Space Commission, headed by Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh, will meet next week or so to review the
report and take a decision."
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