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Launched on December 30, the mission aims to showcase in-space docking capabilities using small satellites.
Bengaluru: Thirty Indian companies have answered the space regulator's call to build and operate constellations of Earth observation (EO) satellites in a groundbreaking private-public partnership to reduce the country's reliance on foreign data for defense, infrastructure management and other
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The ISRO chief further said that India would soon launch a mission to bring lunar soil - fine fractions of lunar regolith - to Earth.
Later, scientists at ISRO would undertake a series of manoeuvres to place the satellite into the Geo-stationary orbit in the coming days.
ISRO's maiden X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite would offer insights into celestial objects like black holes.
The X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat) is aimed to investigate the polarisation of intense X-ray sources in space.
The lift-off time was rescheduled to 6.31 am as space debris was expected on the path of the rocket.
DS-SAR carries a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). This allows the DS-SAR to provide for all-weather day and night coverage, and capable of imaging at one metre resolution at full polarimetry.
The lift off of the 43.5 metre tall rocket was at 9 am from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre here, about 135 km from Chennai.
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