Indian Remote Sensing Satellite - P3

Indian Space Research Organisation
March, 1996 to December, 2003

Following the successful demonstration flights of Bhaskara-1 and Bhaskara-2 - experimental Earth observation satellites developed and built by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) - and launched in 1979 and 1981, respectively, India began the development of an (Indian Remote Sensing Satellite) program. India realized quite early that sustaining its space program in the long run would depend on indigenous technological capabilities (in particular, US export restrictions made this clear). Keeping this in mind, besides building satellites, India embarked as well on satellite launch vehicle development in the early 1970s. As a consequence, India has two very capable launch systems at the start of the 21st century, namely PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) and GSLV (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle).

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Instrument	Datasets
Modular Opto-electronic Scanner	0
Wide Field Sensor	0
X-ray astronomy payload	0

Also known as :

• missionID 237 (ceos lexicon)
• Mission IRS-P3 (ceos lexicon)
• resource IRS-P3 (dbpedia lexicon)