On the 14th of February, the Indian Space and Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched the Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-04)/ Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C52.)
The launch took place at 5:59 A.M., from Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota. In the early morning of Monday, the PSLV-C52 injected Earth Observation Satellite was launched in the Sun Synchronous Orbit nearly 529 kilometers from space centre in Sriharikota. The PSLV C52 carried two student satellites into orbit. The four stage rocket lifted off with a student satellite INSPIRESat and a spacecraft dubbed INSAT 2DT that is a precursor of a joint India-Bhutan mission in the future.
The EOS 4/ PSLV C52 also called Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT) was designed to provide high quality images under all weather conditions for applications such as agriculture, forestry, and plantations, flood mapping, soil moisture and hydrology.
The task of the spacecraft is to collect observation data in C-Band completing the observations done by Resourcesat, Cartosat, and RISAT 2B series satellite, which has been launched earlier and operating from Earth orbit.
Notably, with this EOS 4 launch, it is the first launch of PSLV since the failure of the EOS 03 mission in 2021.
However, this time the EOS 4 launch was successful, said S. Somnath, the Chief of the ISRO.
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