{"id":365570,"date":"2026-06-19T15:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=365570"},"modified":"2026-06-19T15:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:01:14","slug":"trishna-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/trishna-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"TRISHNA Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>\u00a0Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India and France will jointly launch the TRISHNA satellite next year for global water and food security.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><strong>About TRISHNA Mission<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_365576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-365576\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-365576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Source-ISRO.jpg?resize=300%2C164&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"TRISHNA Mission\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Source-ISRO.jpg?resize=300%2C164&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Source-ISRO.jpg?resize=1024%2C561&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Source-ISRO.jpg?resize=768%2C421&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Source-ISRO.jpg?resize=1536%2C841&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Source-ISRO.jpg?w=1567&amp;ssl=1 1567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-365576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; ISRO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>TRISHNA<\/strong> (<strong>Thermal Infra-Red Imaging Satellite for High-resolution Natural Resource Assessment<\/strong>) is a <strong>joint mission <\/strong>of the Indian Space Research Organisation<strong> (ISRO) <\/strong>and the<strong> French Space Agency CNES<\/strong> for high-resolution <strong>monitoring of Earth&#8217;s surface temperature, vegetation health, and water cycle dynamics.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Schedule<\/strong>: It is scheduled to be <strong>jointly launched by India and France in 2027.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective<\/strong>: The mission aims to <strong>monitor Earth\u2019s surface temperature, energy and water budgets, vegetation health, and water cycle dynamics<\/strong> to address <strong>water and food security challenges<\/strong> and support <strong>efficient water resource management.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Aspects:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Orbit<\/strong>: The satellite will operate in a <strong>sun-synchronous orbit<\/strong> at an <strong>altitude of 761 km<\/strong> with a <strong>local time of 12:30 PM at the equator<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Life Span:<\/strong> The mission is designed for an <strong>operational life of 5 years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Resolution<\/strong>: The satellite will provide a <strong>spatial resolution of 57 m <\/strong>for<strong> land and coastal areas<\/strong> and <strong>1 km for oceanic and polar regions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Payloads:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thermal Infra-Red (TIR)<\/strong>: This <strong>CNES-provided payload<\/strong> has a <strong>four-channel long-wave infrared imaging sensor<\/strong> for high-resolution surface temperature and emissivity mapping.<\/li>\n<li><strong>VNIR-SWIR (Visible\u2013Near Infra-Red\u2013Short Wave Infra-Red):<\/strong> This <strong>ISRO-developed payload contains seven spectral bands<\/strong> and is <strong>used to study how the Earth&#8217;s surface reflects sunlight.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It helps generate important information on vegetation, land surface conditions, and radiation-related variables required for monitoring natural resources and the Earth&#8217;s energy balance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Global Contributions:<\/strong> TRISHNA\u2019s data <strong>will support global initiatives such as GEOGLAM for agricultural monitoring, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and Global Water Watch.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>The mission\u2019s outputs will <strong>also serve as Essential Agricultural Variables (EAVs) and Essential Climate Variables (ECVs)<\/strong> for the global community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:\u00a0Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India and France will jointly launch the TRISHNA satellite next year for global water and food security. About TRISHNA Mission TRISHNA (Thermal Infra-Red Imaging Satellite for High-resolution Natural Resource Assessment) is a joint mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the French Space Agency CNES for high-resolution&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/trishna-mission\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TRISHNA Mission<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-365570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365570","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\/10401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}