RISAT-2

RISAT -2 ( Radar Imaging Satellite 2 also ) is an Indian radar reconnaissance satellite which was successfully launched in the framework of the Indian program RISAT.

He was taken on April 20, 2009 at 01:15 UTC with a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle from the second launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in a sun-synchronous orbit. As a secondary payload launch vehicle built by students transported the microsatellite ANUSAT. RISAT -2 was built by the Israeli company Israel Aerospace Industries on the basis of Israel's satellites TecSAR, which was started in 2008. Main payload of the satellite is at work in the X-band synthetic aperture radar system with a large dish-shaped antenna, which can take pictures at any time of day and in all weather conditions and is expected to reach a resolution of up to one meter. As a life expectancy of three years specified.

Officially, he should help the civil defense, the act limits and the monitoring of areas affected by drought, and in the planning of urban development. Western experts but from a far-reaching military use for reconnaissance tasks. This was requested by Indian military after the attacks on 26 November 2008 in Mumbai, followed by the acquisition plans accelerated and was RISAT -2 launched before RISAT -1.