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India looks stunning from space in new images beamed by Isro's Oceansat-3​

The Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-06) also known as Oceansat-3 has beamed back new images of the planet using the onboard Ocean Colour Monitor. The images are a mosaic generated by Isro's National Remote Sensing Center (NRSC) in Hyderabad from data beamed back by the spacecraft.

The Earth Observation Satellite-06 is the third-generation satellite in the Oceansat series and is designed to provide continuity services of Oceansat-2 spacecraft with enhanced payload specifications as well as application areas.

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The Oceansat-3 captured South America from space. (Photo: Isro)
Oceansat-3 was launched with three major instruments Ocean Color Monitor (OCM-3), Sea Surface Temperature Monitor (SSTM), Ku-Band Scatterometer (SCAT-3), and ARGOS. The Ocean Color Monitor senses the Earth in 13 distinct wavelengths to provide information about global vegetation cover on land and ocean biota for global oceans.

The satellite has been providing continuity of ocean colour and wind vector data to sustain the operational applications, improve the applications, and information around sea surface temperature and more bands in the optical region.

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Africa as captured by Oceansat-3. (Photo: Isro)
The EOS-06 mission was launched on the PSLV-C54 mission from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in 2022. Oceansat-3 captured Cyclone Mandous in December 2022 and the OCM onboard EOS-06 identified algae (coccolithophore) bloom off the coast of Argentina in the South Atlantic Ocean.



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The Oceansat series of satellites are used for earth observation and monitoring water bodies. The first Oceansat was launched in a Polar Sun Synchronous orbit nearly 720 kilometers above Earth in 1999. Oceansat-2 had blasted off onboard the PSLV-C14 mission in 2009.
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India looks stunning from space in new images beamed by Isro's Oceansat-3

The satellite has been providing continuity of ocean colour and wind vector data to sustain the operational applications.
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jetray said:
err.....we simply couldnt control the speed but some how managed to stop.
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No. Lifting body designs always have high descent rates, this was a problem with the space shuttle too. When it glided back to earth it was like a falling brick in a controlled crash. And we didn't 'just manage to stop'. It has all the hallmarks of a lifting body landing- very fast descent, fast landing and finally 'zig zag breaking' like ths space shuttle has done on some occassions. Pretty standard stuff.
 
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it can be used for launching satellite in low earth orbit. In future more reliable spacecraft can take human to space and returns to earth like space shuttle with more advanced technologies.
 
Next Step: The third launch will demonstrate the space shuttle's orbit around the earth, deorbiting, and re-entering the atmosphere. Its size will be 1.6 times that of the existing space shuttle. The GSLV is going to be the launch vehicle.

 
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