{"id":7315,"date":"2022-11-05T06:25:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T00:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7315"},"modified":"2025-03-28T19:56:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:26:53","slug":"risat-2-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/risat-2-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"RISAT-2 satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About RISAT-2 satellite:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was launched on 20 April 2009 by a PSLV C-12 rocket following the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It was India\u2019s first \u201ceye in the sky\u201d to keep surveillance on the country\u2019s borders as part of anti-infiltration and anti-terrorist operations.<\/li>\n<li>It was also used to track enemy ships at sea.<\/li>\n<li>The main sensor of RISAT-2, which was able to observe in all weather conditions day and night, was Israel Aerospace Industries&#8217; X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar.<\/li>\n<li>It carried 30 kg of fuel for an initial designed life of four years.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Due to proper maintenance of orbit and mission planning by the spacecraft operations team in ISRO and by economical usage of fuel, RISAT-2 provided very useful payload data for 13 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/isros-risat-2-satellite-makes-re-entry-into-earths-atmosphere\/article66092898.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RISAT-2 was an Indian radar imaging reconnaissance satellite that was part of India&#8217;s RISAT programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7315","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\/7315","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=7315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}