{"id":30915,"date":"2023-03-15T09:57:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T04:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30915"},"modified":"2025-04-16T00:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:26:14","slug":"what-is-the-india-bhutan-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-india-bhutan-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the India-Bhutan Satellite?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About India-Bhutan Satellite:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also known as the <strong>ISRO Nano Satellite 2 for Bhutan (INS-2B).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>launched <\/strong>as a payload<strong> on ISRO&#8217;s PSLV C54 rocket<\/strong> on November 26, 2022.<\/li>\n<li>It has been jointly<strong> developed by scientists from both countries<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The satellite <strong>contains<\/strong> <strong>two payloads:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NanoMx multispectral optical imager:<\/strong> It is <strong>developed by India&#8217;s Space Applications Centre (SAC<\/strong>). It will <strong>provide high-resolution images<\/strong> to Bhutan <strong>for its natural resources management<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) repeater:<\/strong> It is <strong>jointly developed by<\/strong> Department of Information Technology and Telecom <strong>(DITT) Bhutan<\/strong> and <strong>ISRO&#8217;s UR Rao Satellite Centre (URSC)<\/strong> to serve the amateur radio community, <strong>relaying realtime information about the region.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is ISROs PSLV C54 Mission?<\/h3>\n<p>PSLV-C54 mission placed nine satellites, including an Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-06) in multiple orbits.The eight nano satellites include ISRO Nano Satellite-2 for Bhutan (INS-2B), Anand, Astrocast (four satellites), and two Thybolt satellites. Notably, EOS-6 is the Oceansat series\u2019 third-generation satellite. This is the 56th flight of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and the 24th flight of the PSLV-XL version with 6 PSOM-Xls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news9live.com\/science\/india-bhutan-satellite-ground-station-inaugurated-at-thimphu-au941-2074909\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India-Bhutan satellite ground station inaugurated at Thimphu<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India-Bhutan Satellite was launched as a payload on ISRO&#8217;s PSLV C54 rocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30915","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\/30915","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=30915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}