ISRO successfully launches EOS-04 radar imaging satellite, two others

 ISRO successfully launches EOS-04 radar imaging satellite, two others

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully begin earth survey satellite EOS-04 along with two other smaller passenger satellites aboard Polar Satellite begin wheels at 5.59 am on February 14, 2022 from the first begin pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.

ISRO tweeted after the begin saying, "India’s Polar Satellite begin wheels PSLV-C52 injected Earth survey Satellite EOS-04, into an intended sun-coeval polar orbit of 529 km altitude at 06:17 hours IST on February 14, 2022 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR, Sriharikota."

This was ISRO's first begin mission of 2022 and PSLV’s 54th flight. The begin comes almost six months behind ISRO's GSLV-F10/EOS-03 mission failed on August 12, 2021. As per ISRO, the mission failed behind the cryogenic upper stage ignition did not happen due to a technical anomaly.

PSLV-C52 mission

The radar-fiction satellite, weighing 1710 kg, was locate into a sun-synchronous polar orbit of 529 km around 17 minutes behind liftoff. Besides the earth survey satellite EOS-04, the mission as well as carried two small satellites as co-passengers, and that were injected into the orbit a minute later.

The two passenger satellites include:

INSPIREsat-1: It is a student satellite from Indian Institute of Space Science & robotic (IIST) in union with University of Colorado's Laboratory of Atmospheric & Space Physics.

INS-2TD: This is a robotic radical satellite (INS-2TD) from ISRO, a precursor to India-Bhutan Joint Satellite (INS-2B).

EOS-04 Satellite

The EOS-04 satellite, as well as known as RISAT1, is a Radar Imaging Satellite. It has been designed to supply high-quality photo below all weather state . The images will be used for applications such as agriculture, soil moisture and hydrology, forestry & plantations and flood mapping.

The countdown process of 25 hours and 30 minutes leading to the begin of the mission will be begin at 04:29 hours on February 13th behind getting a go-ahead from ISRO's begin Authorization Board.