Megha Tropiques – India’s Climate Satellite
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G. Madhavan Nair, chairman of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), has expected that after the success of Chandrayaan 1, ISRO is going to introduce an exclusive and special weather satellite jointly with the French space agency CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) in the upcoming year 2009. So, their organization is very busy now with ground work for the satellite launching. Chandrayaan-1 was the first unmanned spaceship mission to the moon. It was India’s first space craft to venture beyond Earth’s orbit successfully entered lunar orbit on 8, November 2008.
The Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS) would be built it while it would be launched by ISRO but two essential instruments called SCARAB and SAPHIR would be built by the CNES. Another important critical instrument called MADRAS will be jointly engineered by both ISRO and CNES.
Talking to the press here on the sidelights of a program on last Monday, Nair said to reporters that the satellite would be launched by the end of 2009. He said “It is a joint agreement between France and ISRO. Some instruments are made by French people and some we are doing it. By the end of the 2009, it would be launched. This satellite will provide lot of inputs for weather modulates and near time weather forecast and so on.”
The new satellite, named Megha Tropiques; and it will study the tropical atmosphere. It will have associated phenomena which will help France and India to study the cyclones, monsoon and any other weather changes. The satellite will be operated by ISRO and both the countries India and France can share data from this. India looks forward to sending an astronaut into space by 2012 and a special manned mission to the moon by 2020.
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