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What’s GSLV, ISRO’s ‘naughty boy’ rocket that will launch the INSAT-3DS weather satellite today?
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After about 18 minutes of launch, the INSAT-3DS satellite will enter into a 36,647 km x 170 km elliptical orbit. Later, orbit-raising manoeuvres will be carried out to install the satellite
into a Geo-stationary Orbit. This can be done in a couple of days, as per NDTV. The mission is also significant for GSLV. The rocket will be deployed later this year to launch the Earth
observation satellite, NISAR. NISAR, which is being jointly developed by NASA and ISRO, will map the globe in 12 days and provide “spatially and temporally consistent” data for analysing
Earth’s ecosystems, ice mass, sea level rise and natural hazards like earthquakes and tsunamis, as per India’s space agency. With inputs from agencies