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RE: RISAT-1

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Special Episode on PSLV C19 Rocket 25.04.2012

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An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) with the RISAT 1 satellite is scheduled to launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 00:17 GMT, 26th April, 2012.

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The PSLV with the RISAT-1 satellite has successfully launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre

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RISAT-1, India's Indigenous Radar Imaging Satellite to be Launched on 20 April

An indigenously conceived and developed radar imaging satellite RISAT-1 will be launched by ISRO on 20 April. The Radar Imaging Satellite is designed to create imaging 24 hours a days, not withstanding any inclement weather conditions. RISAT-1 has with it, a C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar payload, which can operate in modes of multi-polarisation and multi-resolution, which can provide images with coarse, fine and high spatial resolutions. The satellite will be used for agricultural purposes.
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India's spy satellite to be launched in April

A wholly Indian-built spy/surveillance satellite - Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) - that can see through clouds and fog and has very high- resolution imaging is slated for launch in April, a senior official of the Indian space agency has said.
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RISAT-1 to be launched anytime from March 15

Indigenously developed remote sensing satellite RISAT-1, which can take images of the Earth in all weather conditions, would be launched by space agency ISRO anytime from March 15.
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ISRO to launch three satellites for studying climate change

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch three satellites - Megha-Tropiques, SARAL and RISAT-1 - next year to study climate change, said its Chairman K. Radhakrishnan on Saturday.
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India's earth observation capabilities are set to get a boost with the launch of indigenously-developed RISAT-1 early next year.
The satellite will be launched in the first half of the next year, ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan said today while delivering the IGNOU silver jubilee lecture here, adding RISAT-1 will be a "major milestone" for the country and a boon for regions perennially under cloud cover.
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