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More than two decades after India's first operational optical remote sensing satellite went into orbit, the country's space capabilities are poised for a big technological leap now with the launch of an entirely indigenous radar imaging satellite, RISAT-1. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is preparing to send the satellite into space aboard the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle that is scheduled to lift off from Sriharikota early this Thursday.

Those tracking kharif paddy, among other scenes, can get a clear picture of it this year, thanks to RISAT-1, the all-weather satellite.

The Government has launched an integrated centre which will provide estimates of crop output and assess the drought situation in the country through latest technologies.

Things are getting set for the launch of India's Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT-1) from the spaceport at Sriharikota at 5.45 a.m. on Thursday. The four stages of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-XL) have been stacked up at the first launch-pad built on the beachside on the Sriharikota island and the satellite is married up with the vehicle. The 71-hour countdown for the lift-off will begin at 6.45 a.m. on Monday. The RISAT-1 is essentially a remote-sensing satellite.

New Delhi: Is there life out there? This is what India wants to find out by joining a global search for alien life forms.

Indian Space Research Organisation has signed a deal, believed to be valued at around Rs 100 crore, to launch an 800 kg satellite of ASTRIUM SAS, a Company under EADS, France.

After its launch was put off apparently due to ISRO row, India’s indigenously designed and developed all-weather satellite that has the unique capability of imaging during day and night may be laun

JAIPUR: The Rajasthan government, for the first time, is experimenting with scientific ways for maintaining land records in the state.

Under the national land records modernization programme, the settlement department has initiated a landmapping project with the use of Electronic Total Station (ETS) technique and is planning to later use satellite images and aerial pictures.

JAMMU : Pointing out that 70 to 80 percent of population is engaged in agriculture and allied sectors but 100 percent of population is dependent on agricultural produce, Minister for Agriculture, Ghulam Hassan Mir today informed the House that to make the sector more profitable a new policy for the State is on the anvil.

It has taken Arjun Munda over four and a half months to persuade the mines and geology department to check illegal mining, albeit in a half-hearted manner.

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