The Salem-based Sona College of Technology once again displayed its sound research capabilities when its SonaSPEED (Sona Special Power Electronics & Electric Drives) division supplied key equipment during the launch stage of ISRO’s meteorological satellite INSAT-3DS that lifted off from the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Sriharikota Saturday February 17, 2024.
The INSAT-3DS satellite is a follow-on mission of the third-generation meteorological satellite to be placed in a geostationary orbit, and it is fully funded by the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
Cartosat-2: ISRO had expected the satellite to take about 30 years to de-orbit naturally, it said. The agency, however, chose to lower the satellite s perigee using leftover fuel in view of new guidelines on space debris.