The weather satellite INSAT-3DS is about to launch

The weather satellite INSAT-3DS is about to launch

According to ISRO, the current mission's imager and sounder payloads are comparable to those carried by INSAT-3D and INSAT-3DR, however they perform noticeably better radiometrically.

Industries have contributed significantly to the satellite's creation, according to the space agency.

The countdown for the INSAT-3DS weather satellite's launch atop a geosynchronous launch vehicle began on Friday, according to ISRO.

At 5:35 p.m. on Saturday, GSLV-F14 will launch on its sixteenth mission from Sriharikota's Satish Dhawan Space Center. The Ministry of Earth Sciences is completely funding the INSAT-3DS satellite, which is a follow-up mission to the third generation meteorological satellite to be deployed in geostationary orbit.

"GSLV-F14/INSAT-3DS Mission: 27.5 hours countdown is starting for launch at 17.35 hrs on February 17, 2024," said ISRO. Following the successful launch of the PSLV-C58/EXPOSAT mission on January 1, this is the space agency's second assignment for 2024, with its headquarters located in Bengaluru.

In order to improve meteorological observations and land and ocean monitoring, ISRO said that the goal of Saturday's mission, GSLV-F14/INSAT-3DS, is to continue delivering services to the currently in operation INSAT-3D (launched in 2013) and INSAT-3DR (September 2016). need to provide. to provide satellite-assisted search and rescue (SAR) as well as surface technologies for weather forecasting and catastrophe alerting.

Once in operation, the 2,274 kg satellite will support several departments within the Ministry of Earth Sciences, including the Indian National Meteorological Department, the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), the National Center to feed The medium-range Weather Prediction, alongside the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). Center for Ocean Information Services. Studying cloud characteristics, fog, precipitation, snow cover, snow depth, fire, smoke, land Will go, and seas are just a few of the applications for the 51.7-meter-long rocket that will contain an imager payload, sounder payload, data relay transponder, along with satellite-aided search and rescue transponder.

According to ISRO, the current mission's imager and sounder payloads are comparable to those carried by INSAT-3D and INSAT-3DR, however they perform noticeably better radiometrically. Industries have contributed significantly to the satellite's creation, according to the space agency.

Scientists plan to place the INSAT-3DS satellite into Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) around 20 minutes following liftoff. In a few days, they should be able to put the satellite in geostationary orbit by performing an orbit-raising operation.