High quality images of the Indian landmass and other countries beamed by India’s remote-sensing satellite, Resourcesat-2, were presented to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Monday, by the top-brass of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
The images covered New Delhi, Surat, Bareilly and Dubai. The three cameras aboard Resourcesat-2 were being operated from April 28 and several hundreds of images covering India and many parts of the globe have been acquired from the satellite.
The ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV- C16), which lifted off from the launch pad at Sriharikota on April 20, put three satellites in orbit. They were India’s Resourcesat-2, a joint Indo-Russian satellite called Youthsat and another satellite named X-Sat from the Nangyang Technological University of Singapore.
An ISRO press release said the Prime Minister appreciated the success of the PSLV-C16 which precisely put these three satellites into their orbits. The ISRO delegation which met him included Chairman K. Radhakrishnan, Associate Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, John Zachariah and Associate Director of Liquid Propulsion System Center, V. Ganesan.
This article was corrected for a factual error.
This article was corrected on May 11, 2011 for a typographical error
