New Delhi, Feb 17 (EFE).- The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will on Saturday launch its “naughtiest” rocket, nicknamed for its high failure rate, as part of a mission that will help improve meteorological observations from space.
The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), known as “Naughty Boy” because it failed in six out of 15 missions it carried out, will carry INSAT-3DS, a “meteorological and disaster warning satellite”, ISRO said. In the current situation.
The satellite will be deployed in the Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) to augment meteorological services in the country along with other operational satellites, INSAT-3D and INSAT-3DR.
The Indian space agency added that INSAT-3DS is designed to “enhance meteorological observations and monitoring of land and ocean surfaces for weather forecasting and disaster warning.”
The sixteenth mission of “Naughty Boy” is scheduled to launch at 5:35 pm local time on Saturday (11:05 GMT) from the Sriharikota space station located in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh.
This latest Indian mission comes within the framework of a series of aspirations set by the Asian country in its ambitious race to increase its presence in space, which comes in the wake of the recent successes of its space program.
The country has set the goal of operating its first space station by 2023, and is working on a formula to reduce the costs of implementing the first mission to Venus.
The Asian nation's new aspirations in space come after the successful launch and landing of the unmanned Chandrayaan-3 space mission, which placed an explorer near the moon's south pole, a previously unexplored side of Earth's satellite.
After this achievement, which made India the fourth country to achieve a controlled landing on the surface of the Moon, a feat achieved so far only by China, the United States, Japan and the former Soviet Union, the country launched its first mission to study the Sun. , Aditya-L1 (Sun, in Sanskrit). Evie
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