⏮️ JUST LAUNCHED: Launch in Flight
🛰️ Mission: EOS-09 (RISAT-1B) [Government/Top Secret]
🕒 Launched on: Sun, 18 May 2025 0:29:00 UTC
☄️ Status: The launch vehicle has lifted off from the launchpad.
🚀 Launcher: PSLV XL
🏗️ Launch Provider: Indian Space Research Organization → [2 launches this year]
🌍 Launch Site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India 🇮🇳
📺 Watch Live: 1
📡 Mission Description:
RISAT-1B is the third in the series of radar imaging RISAT-1 satellites of ISRO using an active C-band SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar), providing all-weather as well as the day-and-night SAR observation capability in applications such as agriculture, forestry, soil moisture, geology, sea ice, coastal monitoring, object identification, and flood monitoring, in addition to military surveillance.
The RISAT-1 series is developed, manufactured and integrated by ISRO. The 3-axis stabilized spacecraft bus consists of a hexagonal prism shape build around a central cylinder. Most of the spacecraft subsystems and the payload are integrated in the prism structure and the central cylinder. The solar panels and some subsystems are mounted on the cube-shaped section of the spacecraft.
