{"id":61737,"date":"2019-08-27T00:36:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T16:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/isros-next-gen-cartography-satellite-gets-new-launch-date\/"},"modified":"2019-08-27T00:36:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T16:36:18","slug":"isros-next-gen-cartography-satellite-gets-new-launch-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/isros-next-gen-cartography-satellite-gets-new-launch-date\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO\u2019s Next-Gen Cartography Satellite Gets New Launch Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> Indian Space Research Organization\u2019s (ISRO)&nbsp;<\/strong>Cartosat-3&nbsp;cartography satellite, originally scheduled to launch in May 2019, will now be launched toward the end of the year in October or early November, according to a statement by ISRO Chair Dr. K. Sivan. The satellite will launch on an ISRO&nbsp;Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite is the third variant of ISRO\u2019s cartography satellite design. The Indian space agency currently has eight Catorsat spacecraft operating in orbit. The Cartosat-3 model improves on the CartoSAT-2 model, with&nbsp;included defense capabilities in addition to high-resolution earth observation and sensing systems with an improved range of view.&nbsp;CartoSAT-3 will utilize panchromatic, multispectral and hyperspectral imagery.<\/p>\n<p>ISRO launched India\u2019s first operational remote-sensing satellite, IRS-1A, in 1988. The satellite had a resolution of 36 meters. In the 90s, the agency sent IRS-1C into space, with a panchromatic camera that had a resolution of 5.8 meters. India launched the Technology Experiment Satellite in 2001, followed some years later by the CartoSAT-2 series of satellites.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Space Research Organization\u2019s (ISRO)&nbsp;Cartosat-3&nbsp;cartography satellite, originally scheduled to launch in May 2019, will now be launched toward the end of the year in October or early November, according to a statement by ISRO Chair Dr. K. Sivan. The satellite will launch on an ISRO&nbsp;Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket. The satellite is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}