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Russian satellites to monitor Iran after attack on US bases, plane crash by Staff Writers Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 10, 2020
Russian space agency Roscosmos is planning to use its satellites to monitor the situation in Iran following its recent missile attack on US bases in Iraq and the Ukrainian Boeing crash, according to a statement published on the organization's website on Thursday. The statement, which gives updates on Roscosmos' satellite monitoring operations, also said that the agency planned to monitor the Australian bushfires, and floods in Indonesia, Israel, and the Italian city of Venice, among other natural disasters. The tragic crash involved a Ukrainian Boeing 737-800, bound for Kiev, and happened on Wednesday near Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport shortly after take-off. All 176 people on board were killed. On the same day, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps started an operation to retaliate against the US for killing one of its top generals, Qasem Soleimani, in Iraq, launching dozens of missiles at the country's Ain Al Asad and Erbil airbases. The attack caused no casualties. Source: RIA Novosti
Hi-Tech antenna deployed for India's new spysat New Delhi (Sputnik) Dec 17, 2019 Besides the main RISAT-2BR1 satellite, on 11 December, the ISRO's PSLV-C48 carried nine international satellites - six from the US and one each from Israel, Italy and Japan. The advance antenna is meant to increase the capacity of the satellite. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released a video of the successful deployment of the sophisticated technology of the RISAT-2BR1 spacecraft in orbit. It is the radar imaging earth observation satellite which was launched from Srihari ... read more
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