{"id":213302,"date":"2022-11-07T19:32:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T14:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=213302"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:32:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T14:02:43","slug":"isros-risat-2-satellite-makes-re-entry-into-earths-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isros-risat-2-satellite-makes-re-entry-into-earths-atmosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO\u2019s RISAT-2 satellite makes re-entry into Earth\u2019s atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cISRO\u2019s RISAT-2 satellite makes re-entry into Earth\u2019s atmosphere\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 4th November 2022.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ISRO\u2019s RISAT-2 satellite has made an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is RISAT-2?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RISAT-2 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or Radar Imaging Satellite-2 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was launched in 2009 by PSLV-C12 launch vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is India&#8217;s first dedicated reconnaissance satellite possessing day-night as well as all-weather monitoring capability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was also used to track hostile ships at sea that were deemed a military threat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The principal sensor of Risat-2 was an X-band synthetic-aperture radar from Israel Aerospace Industries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> RISAT-2 is a clear example of ISRO\u2019s capability to carry out spacecraft orbital operations in an efficient and optimal way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 For instance, RISAT-2 Satellite carried 30 Kg of fuel for an initial designed life of 4 years. But with the proper maintenance, RISAT-2 provided very useful payload data for 13 years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cISRO\u2019s RISAT-2 satellite makes re-entry into Earth\u2019s atmosphere\u201d published in The Hindu on 4th November 2022.\u00a0 What is the News? ISRO\u2019s RISAT-2 satellite has made an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth\u2019s atmosphere. What is RISAT-2? RISAT-2 or Radar Imaging Satellite-2 was launched in 2009 by PSLV-C12 launch&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/isros-risat-2-satellite-makes-re-entry-into-earths-atmosphere\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISRO\u2019s RISAT-2 satellite makes re-entry into Earth\u2019s atmosphere<\/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":[10498],"class_list":["post-213302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700640234},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213302","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=213302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}