India to launch new Earth observation satellite tonight. Here's how to watch live.

[Judi Lynn]

By Elizabeth Howell - Contributing Writer about 9 hours ago

EOS-03 will watch for natural disasters along with crop health, perched in geosynchronous orbit

India will send a new Earth observation satellite to space tonight (Aug. 11) to keep an eye on natural disasters, agriculture and forestry regions.

The India Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is scheduled to launch a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) carrying the the EOS-03 satellite from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in eastern India, near the Bay of Bengal, at 8:13 p.m. EDT (0013 GMT or 5:43 a.m. local time Friday, Aug. 12.) You can watch the launch live on this page, as well as on the ISRO website and YouTube channel at liftoff time. The webcast will begin at 7:40 p.m. EDT (2343 GMT).

The GSLV rocket is expected to place the satellite into a preliminary transfer orbit, and EOS-03 is expected to boost itself to geosynchronous orbit in the following days.

ISRO officials describe EOS-03 as a "state-of-the-art" Earth observation satellite with three main objectives: near real-time imaging with frequent revisits to the same region, monitoring natural disasters and other short-term events, and picking up spectral signatures for agriculture and forestry to monitor items like crop health.

More:
https://www.space.com/india-gslv-rocket-eos-3-satellite-launch?utm_source=notification

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1. Damn. Failed to achieve orbit, satellite lost. :(

https://www.space.com/india-rocket-launch-fails-eos-03-satellite-lost

Truly an unforgiving business.

"There is no try. Do, or do not."