Synthetic aperture radar
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| August 23 2023 |
Chandrayaan-1
Chandrayaan-3 successfully performed a soft landing on the Moon, marking a significant achievement in India's lunar exploration program.
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| July 14 2023 |
Chandrayaan-1
Chandrayaan-3 mission launched as a follow-up to previous lunar missions.
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| 2019 |
Göktürk-3
Planned launch of the Göktürk-3 satellite by the end of the year, as announced by the Undersecretariate of Ministry of National Defence.
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| December 12 2019 |
RISAT-2BR1
RISAT-2BR1 deployed its 3.6 meter antenna at 08:30 UTC.
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| December 11 2019 |
RISAT-2BR1
RISAT-2BR1, an Indian synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) imaging satellite, was launched at 09:55 UTC aboard Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C48 from the First Launch Pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre. This launch marked the 50th mission of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle and the 75th launch from the space centre.
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| July 22 2019 |
Chandrayaan-1
Chandrayaan-2 mission launched, including a lunar orbiter, the Vikram lander, and Pragyan rover. However, the lander experienced a software glitch and crashed during landing.
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| 2018 |
Chandrayaan-1
Scientists announced the re-analysis of M3 infrared data, confirming the existence of water across wide expanses of the Moon's polar regions based on data originally collected during the Chandrayaan-1 mission.
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| June 2013 |
Synthetic-aperture radar
Alaska Satellite Facility released newly processed 35-year-old Seasat SAR (Synthetic-Aperture Radar) imagery, providing historical satellite data to the scientific community.
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| May 8 2013 |
Göktürk-3
Contract signed between Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) and Undersecretariat for Defence Industries (SSM) to initiate the indigenous design of the Göktürk-3 satellite and ground stations.
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This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Spaceborne Imaging Radar, History of synthetic-aperture radar, Göktürk-3, Chandrayaan-1 & RISAT-2BR1, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.