Satellites beam quality images

CHENNAI: The cameras on board Cartosat-2A and the Indian Mini Satellite (IMS-1), which were launched by a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C9) on Monday, have started sending pictures of some States and the quality of the images was “excellent,” according to a press release from the Indian Space Research Organisation.
The PSLV-C9 also put eight foreign nano satellites in accurate orbits. The telemetry data received indicated that all the sub-systems of the Indian satellites were normal.
The multispectral camera on board the IMS-1 was switched on the previous day and it transmitted a high quality image covering a wide swathe from Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh to Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu.
On Wednesday, the hyperspectral camera on the IMS-1 and the panchromatic camera on Cartosat-2A were switched on.
The images from the IMS-1 covered Uttarakhand to Karnataka, passing through New Delhi and Bhopal.
The images from the Cartosat-2A covered strips of land from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh to Nuh (south of Delhi) and Sangli in Maharashtra to the Goa coast. “The quality of the images received at the National Remote-Sensing Agency, Hyderabad, was excellent.”
The release said the launch of PSLV-C9 was a milestone for ISRO as it again proved the reliability and versatility of the PSLV and its ability to put satellites in different types of orbits.