ISRO will launch satellite INSAT-3DS today, will give accurate weather information

ISRO will launch accurate weather satellite INSAT-3DS today at 5.35 pm. It will be launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. The countdown for the launch started on Friday. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) gave this information on Friday. Under the sixteenth mission, the launch vehicle GSLV-F14 will fly on Saturday evening. This satellite will be launched with GSLV Mk II rocket. The INSAT-3DS satellite is a follow-up mission to the third generation meteorological satellite placed in geostationary orbit and is fully funded by the Ministry of Earth Sciences.

ISRO will launch satellite

“GSLV-F14/INSAT-3DS Mission: 27.5 hours countdown has begun for launch at 17.35 hrs on February 17, 2024,” ISRO said. This is ISRO's second mission in 2024 after the successful launch of PSLV-C58/ExpoSat mission on January 1. The last satellite of this series, INSAT-3DR, was launched on 8 September 2016. The weight of this satellite is 2,274 kg.

Once INSAT-3DS is operational, it will be deployed by various departments under the Ministry of Earth Sciences – India Meteorological Department (IMD), National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), National Center for Medium Range Weather Prediction and Indian National Ocean Information Center. Will go. Will work in service center. The length of the rocket carrying the satellite is 51.7 meters. The 51.7 meter long rocket will carry an imager payload, sounder payload, data relay transponder and satellite-assisted search and rescue transponder, which will be used to study fog, cloud, mist, rain, snow and its depth, smoke, fire, land Will be done for. And the sea. will be done on

ISRO has created INSAT to meet India's communications, broadcasting, meteorological and search and rescue needs. JIO series of stationary satellites was launched in the year 1983. It is the largest local communication system in the Asia Pacific region. This satellite is monitored from Hassan in Karnataka and Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh. Six satellites of this series have been launched so far.