Bangalore: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) will launch the Megha-Tropiques satellite on October 12.
ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan on Saturday announced the Indo–French satellite will be launched at 11am on October 12 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
Megha-Tropiques (Megha means cloud in Sanskrit and Tropiques means tropics in French) is aimed at understanding the lifecycle of convective systems and to their role in the associated energy and moisture budget of the atmosphere in the tropical regions.
"As the Megha-Tropiques will contribute to the precipitation measurement mission, it is beneficial to climate research globally. There is a request from US and European Space agencies to use the data, which will be available three months after the launch," he said.
He said 21 principal investigators from US and Europe would study the data retrieved from the satellite, which will carry an Imaging Radiometer Microwave Analysis and Detection of Rain and Atmospheric Structures, a six-channel Humidity Sounder, a four-channel Scanner for Radiation Budget Measurement and GPS Radio Occultation System .
Three other satellites, Jugnu and SMRSAT, designed and developed by the IIT-K and SMR University, respectively, and one from Luxembourg will piggyback the satellite.
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