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News: The Prime Minister has congratulated Digantara for the successful launch of Mission SCOT (Space Camera for Object Tracking).
About Mission SCOT
- It is the world’s first commercial satellite for surveillance of Resident Space Objects (as small as 5cm) orbiting the Earth to ensure safer space operations.
- Surveillance of Outer Space or Situational Space Awareness (SSA) gains paramount importance to ensure the safety of spacecrafts.
- It aims to improve space safety, optimise traffic management and strengthen national security initiatives.
- The SCOT satellite has been launched onboard SpaceX Transporter-12 mission.
- SCOT will be deployed in a sun-synchronous orbit. This will enable it to track objects in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with greater efficiency as compared to the existing sensors.
