Oceansat-3A likely to be launched by year-end, says NRSC Director
The National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) announced that the Oceansat-3A satellite is scheduled for launch by the end of the year. Additionally, a new coastal research laboratory has been inaugurated at Andhra University to support ocean observation and the blue economy.
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The Oceansat-3A satellite is likely to be launched before the end of this year, National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) Director Prakash Chauhan said in Visakhapatnam on Friday. He was speaking after inaugurating the NICES-Coastal Observation Research Laboratory (CORAL) at the Centre for Studies on Bay of Bengal (CSBoB), Andhra University (AU), along with Vice-Chancellor G.P. Raja Sekhar.
The laboratory, set up under an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between AU and the NRSC, will support ISRO’s Oceansat programme. “To support these ocean observations, we also need ground data, which we call ground-truth observations,” Dr. Chauhan said, adding that ISRO has already launched three Oceansat satellites.
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