India successfully launches radar imaging “Risat-1 satellite”

By sagarmedia on April 26, 2012 |

India successfully launched Radar Imaging Satellite, Risat-1 from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday joined a select group of nations having such an advanced technology. The US, Canada and Europe are having such technology. The indigenously built Risat-1, with a life span of five years, will be used for disaster prediction and agriculture forestry. The high resolution pictures and microwave imaging from Risat-1 could also be used for defence purposes as it can look through the clouds and fog.
The ISRO-made Risat-1 is the heaviest luggage so far ferried by a PSLV since 1993. ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan said after the launch that PSLV-C19 mission is a grand success and this is the 20th successive successful flight of PSLV.
The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh hailed the successful launch of PSLV carrying RISAT-1 and congratulated the scientists associated with the project