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Bangalore, India (PTI) Aug 09, 2007 India's space agency will next year launch a special platform to put into space miniature satellites catering to the needs of developing countries and the domestic scientific community, its chief said today. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is developing a 100-kg "satellite bus" as demand has picked up for launching nano-satellites, its Chairman G Madhavan Nair said. "We are trying to look at a small platform which can take up scientific experiments or may even be used for various cluster formations and things like that," Nair told PTI here. "So from that angle, a 100-kg bus is being developed. We are going to launch it for the first time next year." The platform will have a unique imaging system that can be used by third world countries. "With low-cost terminals, they can receive data about their region...that's going to be servicing the needs of various developing countries," Nair said. "We will try to make it available to the (Indian) scientific community. Many science missions in the 11th Plan (2007-12) will go on that," said Nair, also secretary in the Department of Space and chairman of the Space Commission. Nair noted that ISRO's first satellite many years ago was a nano one, weighing just 40 kg. "Since the demand was not there (earlier), we did not concentrate on (nano-satellites). Now, many scientists want to come up with small experiments, there is no point in making big satellites for them."
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Guilford UK (SPX) Jun 06, 2007World-leading small satellite manufacturer, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), has successfully completed its Baseline Design Review for a Geostationary Mini-satellite Platform (GMP). The 2.28 million euro pre-development project forms part of ESA's Advanced Research in TElecommunications Systems funding stream for ESA/Industry partnerships (ARTES 4). |
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