{"id":22431,"date":"2015-02-09T18:21:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T12:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=22431"},"modified":"2015-02-09T18:21:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T12:51:55","slug":"isro-to-launch-googles-sky-box-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/isro-to-launch-googles-sky-box-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO to launch Google\u2019s Sky Box satellite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be launching Google\u2019s <strong>Sky Box Imaging satellite<\/strong> this year from its spaceport at Sriharikota. This will be the first time a US based satellite to be launched by ISRO.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google&#8217;s Sky Box Imaging had approached ISRO to launch one of its satellites<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to senior officials working at ISRO, Skybox\u2019s satellites will help Google to produce accurate, precise, up-to-date, close to real time images on Google maps. Further,\u00a0Google plan to take help from Skybox\u2019s satellites and technology to help improve Internet access and disaster relief.<\/p>\n<p>Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota Range (SHAR) Director Dr M.Y.S. Prasad said that Sky Box Imaging had approached ISRO to launch one of its satellites and had also informed that they had plans to place 180 micro satellites in orbit. \u201cThey may launch experimental satellites before going ahead. Although they want to us to launch a single satellite now, there is potential in future. This is the first US-based satellite being launched by ISRO,\u201d Dr Prasad said.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google plan to take help from Skybox\u2019s satellites and technology to help improve Internet access and disaster relief.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Skybox Imaging which provides high-resolution satellite imageries was acquired by Google Inc in late 2014. After acquisition of Sky Box Imaging, Google wants to develop precision maps using its own network of 180-odd satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the ISRO is also launching 3 satellites for the UK-based DMC International Imaging International and 7 satellites for Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>ISRO has so far launched 35 satellites from 19 countries around the globe including United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland etc, bringing a huge sum to the country as foreign exchange. During the last 22 years, ISRO has earned <strong>Rs.4,408.07<\/strong> <strong>crore<\/strong>, through launching satellites of other countries. India is ambitious on eking of the world&#8217;s <strong>$300 billion<\/strong> annual space business through ISRO&#8217;s commercial services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So if you think India is wasting money on space program rather than spending on the welfare of people? Think again!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be launching Google\u2019s Sky Box Imaging satellite this year from its spaceport at Sriharikota. This will be the first time a US based satellite to be launched by ISRO. Google&#8217;s Sky Box Imaging had approached ISRO to launch one of its satellites According to senior officials working at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":22436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[460,391],"class_list":["post-22431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-google","tag-isro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}