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Strategies & Market Trends : India Coffee House
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To: JPR who wrote (9645)11/18/1999 11:53:00 AM
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India set to launch Cartosat-II in 2003
deccanchronicleonline.com
New Delhi: India will be launching a one-metre resolution satellite in 2003, scientists at the
Indian Space Research Organisation said here on Wednesday.In principle, it means the satellite
can detect an object of one metre in diameter or the size of a coffee table.

The latest Indian Remote Sensing satellite now in orbit has a resolution of 5.8 metre. While the
US military satellites have the capability to read the number plates on cars, pictures of
one-metre resolution were not publicly available until last month when a US space company
(Space Imaging) launched Ikonas satellite.

Its one-metre resolution pictures are now commercially available.V Jayaraman, director of
Isro?s earth observations system, said India?s one-metre resolution satellite would be used for
cartographic purposes.

He was speaking at the UN Escap Space symposium here.Named Cartosat-II, it will follow
Cartosat-I to be launched in 2002. Cartosat-I will have a resolution of 2.5 metre.

George Joseph, who has been involved in the design of the cameras, said that Indian Space
Research Organisation deliberately avoided putting higher resolution cameras on the satellite as
they were not required for the remote sensing applications that India had one mind.

Meanwhile, India?s multi-purpose state-of-the-art Insat-3B satellite will not be a solo passenger
to be injected into the geostationary orbit by the latest model Ariane-5 launch vehicle of the
French Arianespace in February 2000.

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