LD OCEANSAT 2

Congratulating the ISRO team, President Pratibha Patil
and Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh said Oceansat-2
would herald a new beginning in understanding of the oceans.

In their messages, Patil said it was a proud moment for
the whole country, while Singh said he was delighted to learn
that the PSLV-C14 has successfully launched Oceansat-2 and six
nano satellites.

"PSLV has once again demonstrated its versatility and
reliability through this 15th successful launch in a row,"
the PM said, adding Oceansat-2 will "herald a new beginning in
our understanding of the oceans".

Besides two German Rubin nano satellites, other
Oceansat-2 co-passengers are four cubesats: Beesat, built by
Technical University Berlin, UWE-2 (University of Wuerzburg
Germany), ITU-pSat(Istanbul Technical University Turkey) and
SwissCube-1 (Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne,
Switzerland).

An in-orbit replacement to Oceansat-1, which was used to
study physical and biological aspects of oceanography,
Oceansat-2 will have a mission life of five years. Oceansat-1
has completed 10 years of space odyssey.

The nano satellites, in the two-eight kg range, are
educational spacecraft from European Universities intended to
test new technologies. MORE PTI VIJ
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