Big leap: Indian Space Research Organisation’s PSLV-C36 lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Wednesday. PTI
India on Wednesday successfully launched its latest remote sensing satellite, RESOURCESAT-2A, which would be useful for agricultural applications like crop area and production estimation, drought monitoring, soil mapping, cropping system analysis and farm advisories generation
ISRO’s workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C36 blasted off at 10.25 am from the spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh and injected the satellite into orbit
Once brought to its operational configuration, the satellite will begin to provide imagery from its three cameras and the data will be useful for agricultural applications
1,235-kg is the weight of RESOURCESAT-2A
17 min 5 sec time it took to get into orbit
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