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Watch India Launch a New Earth-Watching Satellite Tonight!
By Hanneke Weitering 3 hours ago Spaceflight
RISAT-2B lifts off at 7:57 p.m. EDT (2357 GMT).
India is launching a new Earth-observation satellite today (May 21), and you can watch it lift off live online!
The spacecraft, called Radar Imaging Satellite-2B (RISAT-2B), will lift off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle at 7:57 p.m. EDT (2357 GMT, or 5:27 a.m. local time on May 22). If all goes well, the satellite will separate from the rocket's fourth stage about 15 minutes after liftoff and begin its five-year mission.
You can watch a live webcast of the mission here, courtesy of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The webcast will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff.
India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C46) stands tall on the launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India, ahead of the planned launch of the RISAT-2B Earth-observing satellite.
(Image: © ISRO)
RISAT-2B will be the third radar imaging satellite in India's RISAT series, which is the country's first line of indigenous all-weather satellites. The first two RISAT satellites launched in 2009 and 2012, though RISAT-1 has been out of commission since 2017. ISRO plans to eventually launch a whole constellation of RISAT satellites, an ISRO official told The Hindu.
More:
https://www.space.com/india-risat-2b-satellite-launch-webcast.html?utm_source=notification