ISRO to launch Mehga Tropiques weather satellite

ISRO to launch Mehga Tropiques weather satellite

Indian Space Research Organization has announced that they are now working on launching a weather satellite.

ISRO is working on launching this new satellite named Mehga Tropiques which has been co-developed by the Indian and French space agency CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales).

This new satellite has been designed to provide simultaneous measurements of several elements of the atmospheric water cycle such as water vapor, clouds, condensed water in clouds, precipitation and evaporation; measure the corresponding radiative budget at the top of the atmosphere; and ensure high temporal sampling in order to characterize the life cycle of the convective system and to obtain significant statistics.

ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said in a statement that the satellite would be built by ISRO, with the French space agency adding some components like SAPHIR, SCARAB and MADRAS.

ISRO is also expected to soon release the images taken by their Moon Impact Probe (MIP) from the Chandrayaan-1 mission which was completed successfully last year.