{"id":81806,"date":"2012-12-22T00:59:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T16:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/isro-delays-saral-launch\/"},"modified":"2012-12-22T00:59:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T16:59:44","slug":"isro-delays-saral-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/isro-delays-saral-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO Delays SARAL Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/SARAL.png\" alt=\"\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Artist\u2019s rendition of SARAL<\/i>&nbsp;satellite<br \/>\nImage credit: CNES\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[12-21-12] The launch of the I<strong>ndian Space Research Organization\u2019s (ISRO)<\/strong> SARAL satellite designed to study the ocean currents and sea surface heights has been delayed from December to February 2013 due to glitches, ISRO announced Dec. 21.<\/p>\n<p>\tProblems arose during the thermo-vacuum testing of SARAL at the Bangalore ISRO Satellite Centre, where the entire satellite is built, leading to its postponement.&nbsp;<br \/>\n\t\u201cWe had technical problems in the satellite. Some problems were encountered during the thermo-vacuum testing\u2026 They have been solved,\u201d a top ISRO official said in a statement. \u201cThe satellite has new payloads and new systems. When new payloads are used, technical issues will be there. We are resolving them,\u201d said another ISRO engineer.<br \/>\n\tSATAL has two payloads from French space agency <strong>CNES<\/strong>\u2014Argos-3 for data collection and Altikameter for measuring the height of the sea surface\u2014and have been integrated into a satellite bus from India.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist\u2019s rendition of SARAL&nbsp;satellite Image credit: CNES [12-21-12] The launch of the Indian Space Research Organization\u2019s (ISRO) SARAL satellite designed to study the ocean currents and sea surface heights has been delayed from December to February 2013 due to glitches, ISRO announced Dec. 21. Problems arose during the thermo-vacuum testing of SARAL at the Bangalore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-81806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81806"}],"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=81806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}