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ISRO's centre in Ahmedabad helped track Hurricane Sandy

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s Oscat radio scatterometer on board its 960kg Oceansat-2 remote sensing satellite had tracked ocean surface winds of Hurricane Sandy that wrought havoc in eastern US on Monday, a Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory announcement has said.
Nasa had sought ISRO's help as its QuikScat satellite stopped operating in November 2009. QuikSat resembles the Oscat radio scatterometer.
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ROSA's glimpse of the Earth

Almost four months have passed since ROSA (Radio Occultation Sounder for Atmosphere) was switched on (25 September 2009), just 48 hours after launch. ROSA is the ASI instrument on board the Indian satellite Oceansat-2 that studies the environmental and atmospheric conditions on our planet. And now commissioning on the data sent back to Earth has started. In detail, the ROSA mission -  which uses the radio occultation technique - consists primarily in taking very precise measurements of the temperature, humidity and pressure of the atmosphere from sea level to an altitude of about 100 km. Secondly, ROSA very precisely measures the density of electrons in the ionosphere up to an altitude of about 800 km. These are all measurements that are extremely important for studying the terrestrial climate, which has caused ROSA to be likened to a sort of accurate 'global thermometer'.
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India's latest remote sensing satellite Oceansat-2 has begun beaming "good quality" images of the earth and relaying data on sea surface wind speed and direction, the space agency said on Monday.

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Oceansat-2 beams three images
Oceansat-2 beamed three images capturing a large swathe of land and water bodies from Kashmir to Maldives Island, including Arabian Sea on Thursday.

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TLE Data
OCEANSAT2
1 35931U 09051A   09266.92655648  .00000356  00000-0  10000-3 0    49
2 35931 098.3384 001.6283 0006631 274.9166 085.1334 14.51688996    99

Period:        99.19 
Inclination:  98.34 
Apogee:      725 
Perigee:      715

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ISRO launches Oceansat-2, 6 European satellites
ISRO launches 7 satellites in 20 minutes
PSLV C14 LAUNCH ON 23RD SEPT 2009 FROM SRIHARIKOTA



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1 35931U 09051A   09266.51299909  .00000357  00000-0  10000-3 0    27
2 35931 098.3370 001.2171 0006692 273.5949 086.4472 14.51704289    32


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India has successfully launched seven satellites in a single mission, nearly a month after the country's inaugural Moon mission was aborted.
The rocket was carrying an Indian remote-sensing satellite and six smaller ones, all of them foreign.
The Indian satellite will help spot fishing zones in the sea by monitoring ocean temperatures.

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Oceansat 2, 6 nanosats launched in 20 mins by ISRO
ISRO on Wednesday placed in orbit seven satellites including Oceansat-2 within a span of 20 minutes, its first successful mission after the abrupt end of the ambitious Chandrayaan-I project.
At the end of the 51-hour countdown, the 44.4 meter tall four-stage PSLV-C14 blasted off from the first launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here with ignition of the core first stage and put the satellites in orbit one after another.

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PSLV-C14 Successfully Launches Oceansat-2 Satellite
In its sixteenth flight conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota today (September 23, 2009), ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C14 successfully launched the 960 kg Indian remote sensing satellite Oceansat-2 and six nano satellites for international customers into a polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO). This was the fifteenth successful flight of PSLV.

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Seven satellites in 1,200 seconds. A launch similar to the one in April 2008 when ISRO launched 10 satellites.
ISRO is all set to put six nano satellites and one major ocean satellite into orbit on Wednesday from Sriharikota. The final 51-hour countdown began on Monday at 9am. Of the six nano satellites, four are from Germany, one is from Switzerland and one from Turkey. The seventh is a big one, India's Oceansat-2 weighing 960 kg.

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