{"id":199000,"date":"2022-08-06T18:38:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T13:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=199000"},"modified":"2022-08-06T18:38:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T13:08:37","slug":"azaadi-sat-isro-to-send-small-satellite-launch-vehicle-from-sriharikota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/azaadi-sat-isro-to-send-small-satellite-launch-vehicle-from-sriharikota\/","title":{"rendered":"Azaadi SAT: ISRO to send Small Satellite Launch Vehicle from Sriharikota"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>ISRO to send Small Satellite Launch Vehicle from Sriharikota<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> AIR <\/b>on<b> 6th August 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO) is all set to launch a Small Satellite Launch Vehicle(SSLV) from Sriharikota.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vehicle will carry an Earth Observation Satellite named EOS-02 and a co-passenger satellite, &#8216;Azaadi SAT\u2019 into low earth orbit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is a Small Satellite Launch Vehicle(SSLV)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-isros-sslv-a-small-satellite-launcher-with-big-prospects-ahead\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is EOS-02?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-says-eos-02-satellite-will-be-launched-in-second-quarter-of-2022\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EOS-02 <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is an Earth Observation Satellite. It will provide information about thermal anomalies in the field of geo-environmental studies, forestry, hydrology, agriculture, soil and coastal studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Azaadi SAT?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Azaadi satellite has been designed by 750 girl students of government schools in rural areas from Kashmir to Kanyakumari.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Purpose<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The satellite weighs around 8 kg and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has 75 Femto experiments (selfie cameras to click pictures of its own solar panels and long-range communication transponders).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 It also contains a long-range transponder and a solid-state PIN diode-based radiation counter to measure the ionizing radiation in its orbit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The satellite will also carry a recorded version of the national anthem sung by Rabindranath Tagore, which will be played in space as a tribute to the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The satellite is the result of ISRO pushing for girls to take up Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics(STEM).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cISRO to send Small Satellite Launch Vehicle from Sriharikota\u201d published in AIR on 6th August 2022. What is the News? The Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO) is all set to launch a Small Satellite Launch Vehicle(SSLV) from Sriharikota.\u00a0 The vehicle will carry an Earth Observation Satellite named EOS-02&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/azaadi-sat-isro-to-send-small-satellite-launch-vehicle-from-sriharikota\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Azaadi SAT: ISRO to send Small Satellite Launch Vehicle from Sriharikota<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10552],"class_list":["post-199000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-air","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704468372},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}