TAPAS-1

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Recently, India’s first dedicated commercial CubeSat-category thermal payload TAPAS-1 was successfully deployed in orbit by Space X’s Falcon 9. 

About TAPAS-1

• The TAPAS (Thermal Access Platform for Analytics & Solutions) is India’s first commercial private thermal-imaging payload, developed by Ahmedabad-based space technology startup Satleo Labs.
• Function: It has been designed to capture changes in the heat emitted from the Earth’s surface in the form of images.
• It uses long-wave infrared (LWIR) sensing to capture temperature information that is not visible in conventional optical imagery.
• It has been injected into an orbit 500 km high, from where the satellite will capture high-resolution images of heat and temperature variations at locations across the planet.
• It is a CubeSat-category payload, which are a class of cubical nanosatellites that typically measure 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm.
• Weight: TAPAS-1 weighs 1.5 kg.

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Application of TAPAS-1 data

• Agriculture: It is used for monitoring of agricultural and water stress.
• Disaster Management: It is used for detection and monitoring of disasters such as forest fires.
• Urban Planning: Temperature variations across different areas of a city can be tracked in real time. This can help municipal corporations undertake the necessary planning to address heat stress

Source: IE