{"id":5420,"date":"2022-12-05T10:41:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T05:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5420"},"modified":"2025-03-27T08:24:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:54:56","slug":"isros-pslv-c54-rocket-launched-oceansat-3-along-with-eight-nano-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/isros-pslv-c54-rocket-launched-oceansat-3-along-with-eight-nano-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO\u2019s PSLV-C54 rocket launched Oceansat-3 along with eight nano satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>ISRO\u2019s PSLV-C54 rocket launched the Oceansat-3 along with eight nano satellites, including the Bhutan-SAT, from Sriharikota.<\/li>\n<li>Oceansat-3 is the <strong>third in its set of ocean satellites that are part of India\u2019s ocean observation programme<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>multi-sensor observation satellite,<\/strong> which is expected to operate till 2027.<\/li>\n<li>The Oceansat-3 is envisaged to <strong>observe ocean colour data, sea surface temperature (SST) and wind vector data <\/strong>to use in oceanography, climatic and meteorological applications. It also supports <strong>value-added products such as potential fishing zones<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Oceansat-3, in tandem with Oceansat-2, will improve the receptivity of ocean colour measurements to every 24 hour and wind vector measurements to every 12 hour and help predict cyclones better.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the name of India&#8217;s first Earth observation satellite?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Geo Imaging Satellite (GISAT-1) is India&#8217;s first Earth-imaging satellite operating from geostationary orbit to facilitate continuous observation of the Indian sub-continent, oceans and borders along with quick monitoring of natural hazards and disaster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/home\/science\/pm-modi-posts-first-images-of-gujarat-sent-by-newly-launched-sat-from-space\/articleshow\/95944853.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Times of India<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oceansat-3 is multi-sensor observation satellite, part of India\u2019s ocean observation programme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5420","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\/5420","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=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}