Satellite News

China Meteorological Administration (CMA) received the first set of images from the recently launched weather satellite Fengyun-2D (FY-2D) on Friday afternoon.

The Panchromatic camera (PAN) on board ISRO’s latest remote sensing satellite, Cartosat 2, was switched on today through a series of commands issued from the Spacecraft Control Centre of ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) at Bangalore.

A team of engineers from Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and NASA have successfully met the criteria needed to demonstrate Technology Readiness Level 6 (TRL-6) for the Wavefront Sensing and Control for the James Webb Space Telescope, a measure used by NASA to assess the maturity of evolving technologies.

India’s first Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) equipped with an indigenous cryogenic engine will be launched before March next year, said R. V. Perumal, director of ISRO’s Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC).