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India Will Launch Cartosat-1 In May: ISRO
India will launch Cartosat-1 next month, the first of its kind with stereoscopic imaging capability, and INSAT-4A by the first week of August, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G Madhavan Nair said Tuesday. "INSAT-4A, India's heaviest communication satellite, will be launched from an Ariane-5 launch vehicle in French Guayana, at the end of July or early August," he told reporters. "In the first week of May, Cartosat-1 will be launched from a PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) at Sriharikota. It is the first satellite of its kind with stereoscopic capabilities and a resolution of 2.5 metres," he added. "The satellite would enable updates of survey maps, which were prepared in 1980-85, within a year," Nair said. By the end of the year, ISRO will also launch Cartosat-2 (with one metre resolution and swath of 30km) and HAMSAT, for amateur radio, as a piggyback rider, on an PSLV, he said adding another communication satellite would be launched on a GSLV (Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle. On the Chandrayan project, the ISRO chief said the design of the spacecraft was now complete and an indigenous tracking network was being developed. Related Links ISRO SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Analysis: China, U.S. Woo India Washington, (UPI) April 4, 2005 Indian policymakers now have a difficult, but not unpleasant choice, since Chinese premier Wen Jiabao visited the country Saturday.
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