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In a reflection of growing collaboration between the Indian space Research Organization (Isro), Nasa and USNOAA, data on Hurricane Sandy was shared and showcased.
Nasa had approached Isro’s space centre based in Ahmedabad since its own Satellite stopped operating way back in November 2009. Designed to cover oceans globally, Isro’s satellite, Oceansat-2, had successfully tracked down ocean surface winds of Hurricane Sandy that devastated US East Coast, Cuba and many other countries. Oceansat-2 is Isro’s sixth remote sensing satellite, launched on Spetember 23, 2009.
It operates at an altitude of 720kms from which it transmitted data through the scatterometer’s image of the Hurricane, received early morning at 9.30 (IST).
(Based on Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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