Indian Space Technology

• Few Nations • INSAT - Indian

National Satellite
• Leads even advanced
nations • IRS - Indian Remote-
sensing Satellite
• 3 decades of Space
Program

4 May 2018 ISRO Achievments 1

 SITE
Satellite Instructional Television Experiment

• Year 1975-76 2,500 Villages

• World’s largest Sociological Experiment
• Educational Programs on
– Health
– Family Planning
– Agriculture

4 May 2018 ISRO Achievments 2

 STEP
Satellite Telecommunication Experimental Project

• Year 1977-79 STEP

• 1983 INSAT - world’s largest domestic
communication satellite system
• is a revolution

4 May 2018 ISRO Achievments 3

 INSAT
Indian National Satellite
• Year 1983
• World’s largest Domestic Communication
• A Revolution in
• Telecommunications
• Television Broadcasting
• Meteorology
• Disaster Warning

4 May 2018 ISRO Achievments 4

 INSAT
Indian National Satellite
• Reaches 65% of Indian land mass
• 80% of India’s Population
• Inter-active Training and Education Programs
• Tele-Medicine makes expertise available
• METSAT - Meteorological Satellite
• Exclusively for
Weather Reporting Cyclone warning
4 May 2018 ISRO Achievments 5
 Bhaskara - I & II
Resource Monitoring
• Late 70s and early 80s
• Earth Observation Satellites
• Largest constellation of Remote Sensing
Satellites
• TES - Oct 2001 - camera can take picture
• with high spatial resolution of 1 meter

4 May 2018 ISRO Achievments 6

 Bhaskara - I & II, TES
Manage and Monitor Nation’s Resources like

• Estimation of important crops

• Forest Survey
• Drought Prediction
• Flood Marking, Demarcation of Flood-risk zones
• Marine Resources, Mineral Mapping
• Detection of underground fires in collieries
• Urban Infrastructure Planning
4 May 2018 ISRO Achievments 7
 Satellite Launch Vehicles
• SLV-3 1980 small satellite launch veh
• PSLV Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
– can place 1,200 Kg class satellite into orbit
– at 820 KM Polar Sun-synchronous orbit
– 5 consecutive successful Flights
– Satellites of other countries as Piggybacks
• GSLV Geo Synchronous Satellite LV
– for METSAT 2,000 Kg class satellite

4 May 2018 ISRO Achievments 8

 Space Science Programs
• Scientific Payloads on SROSS, IRS to study
celestial X-Ray and Gamma Ray sources
• Sounding Rockets developed
• Mesosphere, Stratosphere, Troposphere
Radars for conducting
• Atmospheric Research
• Astronomical Observatories

4 May 2018 ISRO Achievments 9

 Space Science Programs
Commercial Uses
• INSAT Satellite capacity leased to Intl
customers
• PSLV launched 4 small satellites of other
countries
• Marketing of Data from IRS

• Dr K. Kasturirangan - chairman ISRO

4 May 2018 ISRO Achievments 10