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Isro launches satellite to improve weather forecast
Hindustan Times
|February 18, 2024
The Indian Space Research Organisation on Saturday successfully launched the INSAT-3DS satellite for the ministry of Earth sciences on-board its launch vehicle, Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F14).
"GSLV-F14/INSAT-3DS Mission: The vehicle has successfully placed the satellite into the intended geosynchronous transfer orbit," the space agency said in a statement.
In the statement, Isro said that the 51.7-meter tall and 4m wide GSLV-F14 placed the INSAT-3DS satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit, then to a geosynchronous stationary orbit in space.
"INSAT-3DS is configured around ISRO's well-proven 1-2k bus platform with a lift-off mass of 2,275 kilograms," statement said.
The mission carried the satellite for the India Meteorological Department as part of its series of climate observatory satellites.
The programme was initiated as a collaboration between Isro and IMD, to improve the country's network of climate services, under which three dedicated Earth observation satellites.
INSAT-3D (launched in 2013), INSAT-3DR (September 2016) and INSAT3DS were to be launched.
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