Cartosat-2, which was put into a 639-km high orbit by a textbook launch of PSLV-C7 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Wednesday, sent the first set of images
Bangalore takes control of satellite
CHENNAI: Cartosat-2, which was put into a 639-km high orbit by a textbook launch of PSLV-C7 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Wednesday, sent the first set of images - one of Delhi and the other of Goa — after its camera was switched on at 10.05 am on Friday.
“The panchromatic camera on board Cartosat-2 was switched on through a series of commands from the Spacecraft Control Centre of ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC), Bangalore. Analysis of the first imagery received at the National Remote Sensing Agency at Shadnagar near Hyderabad confirmed excellent performance of the camera,” an ISRO release said.
The imagery covered a length of about 240 km from Paonta Sahib in Shivalik region to Delhi. Another set covered Radha Nagari to Sagoan in Goa, before the satellite passed over the Arabian Sea. Cartosat can provide images with a spatial resolution of better than one metre.
It can be steered up to 45 degrees and the data from the satellite has applications in urban and rural infrastructure development, Land Information System (LIS) and Geographical Information System (GIS).
The Spacecraft Control Centre is continuously monitoring and controlling the 680-kg Cartosat-2, the 12th in the Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellite series, with the help of a network of stations in Bangalore, Lucknow, Mauritius, Bearslake in Russia and Biak in Indonesia. The ground station in Sweden is also helping the mission in its initial phase.
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