ISRO EOS-04 is a ‘radar imaging satellite’ designed to provide high-quality images in all weather conditions and applications such as agriculture, forestry and plantation, soil moisture and hydrology, and flood mapping.
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle was launched this morning with two small satellites. The Earth-observing satellite EOS-04 was launched through PSLV-C52 under the first launch campaign of the Indian Space Research Organization in 2022. For this, the countdown of 25 hours started on Sunday morning. EOS-04 is a Radar Imaging Satellite.
The EOS-04 has been designed to provide high-quality photographs in all weather conditions and applications such as agriculture, forestry and plantation, soil moisture and hydrology, and flood mapping. The weight of the EOS-04 is 1,710 kg.
PSLV has also carried two small satellites, including InspireSat-1, a satellite of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), developed in collaboration with the Atmospheric and Space Physics Laboratory at the University of Colorado, Boulder. NTU, Singapore, and NCU, Taiwan have also contributed to this.
At the same time, the second satellite is a Technology Demonstrator Satellite (INS-2TD) of ISRO. With a thermal imaging camera as its instrument, the satellite will assist in estimating land surface temperature, water surface temperature of wetlands or lakes, vegetation (crops and forests), and thermal inertia (day and night).
This is the 54th flight of PSLV & the 23rd mission using the ‘PSLV-XL configuration with 6 PSOM-XL (strap-on motors).
Published by- Aashay Bhujbal
Edited by- Kritika Kashyap
