ISRO successfully launches PSLV-C36 Resourcesat-2A from Sriharikota

ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle successfully launched the 1,235 kg RESOURCESAT-2A Satellite from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh at 10.25 am on Wednesday.

This is the thirty seventh consecutively successful mission of PSLV. The PSLV-XL variant rocket standing 44.4 metre tall and weighing 321 ton tore into the morning skies with a reverberating sound breaking free of the earth’s gravitational pull.

The data sent by RESOURCESAT-2A will be useful for agricultural applications like crop area and crop production estimation, drought monitoring, soil mapping, cropping system analysis and farm advisories generation.

The RESOURCESAT-2A is expected to be operational for a period of 5 years. This was the ninth successful launch by ISRO from Sriharikota this year.

The total number of satellites launched by India’s workhorse launch vehicle PSLV including today’s RESOURCESAT-2A has now reached 122, of which 43 are Indian and the remaining 79 are from abroad.