EOS 02 Satellite Will be Launched Later This Year

EOS 02 Satellite UPSC: Relevance

• GS 3: Awareness in the fields of IT, Space.

EOS 02 Satellite: Context

• Recently, Ministry of Science said that EOS-02 satellite will be launched in second quarter of 2022.

What is EOS-02?

• EOS-02 is technology demonstration satellite for various new technologies with applications that include agriculture, forestry, geology, hydrology, miniaturised power electronics, reaction wheels etc. and forming the payload for SSLV-1.
• It was scheduled to launch during Quarter-4 of 2021, however, the onset of the pandemic and consequent lock down and disruption in global as well as domestic supply chain delayed the launch.

EOS series launch

• EOS-01: Earth Observation satellite meant for Agriculture, Forestry & disaster management support
• EOS-02: Technology demonstration satellite for various new technologies with applications that include agriculture, forestry, geology, hydrology etc. and forming the payload for SSLV-1.
• EOS-03 : First Agile Earth Observation satellite in Geostationary orbit and applications which include near real time imaging, quick monitoring of natural disasters, spectral signatures for agriculture, forestry etc.
• EOS-04 : Radar Imaging satellite meant to provide high quality images under all weather conditions for applications such as Agriculture, Forestry & Plantations, Soil Moisture & Hydrology and Flood Mapping.
• EOS-05 : Earth Observation Satellite in the Geostationary Orbit.
• EOS-06 : Earth Observation satellite meant for applications, which include ocean related services and advisories towards potential fishing zone forecast , ocean state forecast.

Why EOS 03 failed?

• EOS-03, a powerful earth observation satellite that was supposed to help in near real-time monitoring of the Indian landmass, was lost in the process.
• It could not be fully accomplished mainly because of a technical anomaly observed in the cryogenic stage.

About EOS 04

• In February 2022, ISRO launched EOS-04, the fourth in a series of earth observation satellites that are being launched under a new generic name.
• EOS-04 was designed to provide high-quality images for applications such as agriculture, forestry and plantations, flood mapping, soil moisture and hydrology.
• It complements the data from Resourcesat, Cartosat and RISAT-2B series of satellites that are already in orbit.

About EOS series satellite

• In 2020, ISRO decided to move to a new naming system for its earth observation satellites which till then had been named thematically, according to the purpose they were meant for.
• Till now, only two of these newly named satellites, EOS-01 and EOS-04, are in orbit now.

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