{"id":6151,"date":"2019-11-21T10:45:12","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T10:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=6151"},"modified":"2019-11-21T10:45:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T10:45:14","slug":"isro-to-launch-cartosat-3-13-commercial-nano-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/isro-to-launch-cartosat-3-13-commercial-nano-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO to Launch Cartosat-3, 13 Commercial Nano Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ISRO would launch its earth imaging and mapping satellite Cartosat-3 along with 13 commercial nano satellites from the US, on November 25. The satellites would be launched by India&#8217;s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C47 into a Sun Synchronous Orbit from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The 13 nanosatellites from the US is a part of the commercial arrangement with NewSpace India Ltd. NSIL is a new company that was set up recently under the Department of Space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cartosat-3 is a &#8220;third generation agile advanced\nsatellite&#8221; having high resolution imaging capability, it said, adding that\nthe satellite would be placed in an orbit of 509 km at an inclination of 97.5\ndegree. Cartosat-3 has an advanced and better spatial version with a resolution\nof up to 0.25m (25cm) as compared to the Cartosat-2 series satellites. It has\nbeen developed so, as it is to produce high-resolution pictures that will be\nused for strategic applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISRO would launch its earth imaging and mapping satellite Cartosat-3 along with 13 commercial nano satellites from the US, on November 25. The satellites would be launched by India&#8217;s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C47 into a Sun Synchronous Orbit from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The 13 nanosatellites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":6152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[794,45],"tags":[364],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-6151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-november-2019","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-indian-space-research-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6153,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions\/6153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6151"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=6151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}