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  India successfully launches its surveillance satellite – RISAT-1

  • Posted by NB Nair
  • April 27, 2012
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  India’s workhorse launch vehicle, PSLV, put the country’s first microwave radar imaging satellite – RISAT-1 – into orbit, the 20th successful launch since its inception in 1993.
  RISAT-1 is the heaviest satellite with 1850 kg la...
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  India to launch its first surveillance satellite on April 26

  • Posted by NB Nair
  • April 24, 2012
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  India's space agency, ISRO, has commenced countdown for the launch of country's first indigenously-built spy/surveillance satellite. The launch is scheduled for early Thursday (April 26) from Sriharikota, 80 kilmoeters from the southern city of Chenna...