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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 13, 2024 - The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) meteorological satellite, INSAT-3DS, has begun its mission to observe Earth, successfully capturing its initial imagery on March 7, 2024. The satellit
The payloads were designed and developed at the Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad. The first images are processed and released at the Master Control Facility, Hassan in Karnataka.
Payloads on the INSAT-3DS generate over 40 geophysical data products such as Sea Surface Temperature, Rainfall (precipitation) Products, Land Surface Temperature, Fog Intensity, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Atmospheric Motion Vectors, High-Resolution Winds, Upper Tropospheric Humidity, Cloud Properties, Smoke, Fire, Mean Surface Pressure, Temperature Profiles, Water Vapor Profiles, Surface Skin Temperature and Total Ozone for the user community.
Chennai, Mar 11 (UNI) The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday announced that INSAT-3DS, the meteorological satellite, has initiated Earth imaging operations. The first set of images by the meteorological payloads (6-channel Imager and 19-channel Sounder) was captured on March 7, 2024. In a post on X, ISRO said "INSAT-3DS Mission: First glimpse of
Isro has completed all four planned Liquid Apogee Motor firings for the weather satellite Insat-3DS. The satellite is now in the geosynchronous orbit and is expected to reach the In Orbit Testing location by February 28. Insat-3DS will provide enhanced meteorological observations and data to improve weather forecasting over India.