ISRO Successfully launches 31 Satellites.

TNPSC Current Affairs - January 2018 by TNPSC Guru 

Indian Space Research Organisation has successfully launches 31 satellitesusing its launch vehicle PSLV –C40(Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle ) from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.

It carried 3 satellites of India and 28 satellites from other countries. Indian Satellites contains 710 kg of Cartostat-2 series for Earth observation ,11kg Nano-satellite and 100 kg Microsatellite.

About Cartosat: 

• Cartosat Series of Satellite is an earth observation satellite built indigenously by India mainly intended for cartographic application.
• Cartosat is a combination of Cartography( means study and practice of making maps) and Satellite.
• It will be very useful for Earth’s resource management and monitoring.
• It is useful in useful for cartographic applications, urban and rural applications, coastal land use and regulation, utility management like road network monitoring, water distribution, creation of land use maps and more.
• Till now ISRO has launched 6 satellite in Cartosat Series, Cartosat 1 in 2005, Cartosat 2 in 2007, Cartosat 2A in 2008, Cartosat 2B in 2010, Cartosat 2C in 2014, Cartosat 2D in Feb 2017 and Cartosat 2E in June 2017 and this is the 7^th Cartostat Series satellite.                                                                                                                                                   (Source from Tnpscgk.in)