INSAT-3D and Alphasat satellites launched successfully European space consortium Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket launched INSAT-3D and Alphasat satellites from the spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana, giving a boost to weather forecasting and disaster warning services. About INSAT-3D: (1) Designed to provide meteorological observation and monitoring of land and ocean surfaces. (2) INSAT-3D also carried the newly developed 19 ‘Channel Sounder’, the first such payload to be flown on an ISRO satellite mission. It will perform weather monitoring through its atmospheric sounding system, which provides vertical profiles of temperature, humidity and integrated ozone from surface to top of the atmosphere. (3) It will provide continuity to earlier missions and further augment the capability to provide various meteorological as well as search and rescue services. (4) The Data Relay Transponder (DRT) will be used to receive meteorological, hydrological and oceanographic data from remote, uninhabited locations over the coverage area from Data Collection Platforms (DCPs) like automatic weather station, automatic rain gauge and agro met stations. (5) It is equipped with a Search and Rescue payload that picks up and relays the alert signals originating from the distress beacons of maritime, aviation and land based users to the Indian Mission Control Centre located at Isro Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network here.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 05:07:26 +0000
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