{"id":25652,"date":"2024-08-07T10:24:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T04:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25652"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:01:44","slug":"earth-observation-sattellite-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/earth-observation-sattellite-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Observation Sattellite-8"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Earth Observation Sattellite-8:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It will be launched by the <strong>Small Satellite Launch Vehicle<\/strong> (SSLV)-D3.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective: <\/strong>The primary objectives of the EOS-08 mission include designing and developing a microsatellite, creating payload instruments compatible with the microsatellite bus, and incorporating new technologies required for future operational satellites.<\/li>\n<li>It is built on the Microsat\/IMS-1 bus and it carries three payloads:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Electro Optical Infrared Payload<\/strong> (EOIR): It is designed to <strong>capture images<\/strong> in the <strong>Mid-Wave IR (MIR) and Long-Wave IR<\/strong> (LWIR) bands, both <strong>during the day and night<\/strong>, for applications such as satellite-based surveillance, disaster monitoring, environmental monitoring, fire detection, volcanic activity observation, and industrial and power plant disaster monitoring.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry payload<\/strong> (GNSS-R): It demonstrates the capability of using GNSS-R-based remote sensing for applications such as <strong>ocean surface wind analysis, soil moisture assessment<\/strong>, cryosphere studies over the Himalayan region, flood detection, and inland waterbody detection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>SiC UV Dosimeter: <\/strong>It monitors <strong>UV irradiance<\/strong> at the viewport of the Crew Module in the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/gaganyaan-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gaganyaan Mission<\/a> and serves as a high-dose alarm sensor for gamma radiation. The spacecraft has a mission life of one year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry<\/h3>\n<p>It is a satellite remote sensing technique that uses surface-reflected GNSS signals to infer information about the Earth\u2019s surface. The reflected GNSS signals act as a bistatic remote sensing radar that responds to changing surface conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/isro-likely-launch-earth-observation-satellite-8-august-15-9498854\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ISRO likely to launch Earth Observation Satellite-8 on August 15<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Observation Sattellite-8 will be launched by the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV)-D3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}