India’s scientific and strategic community must be in seventh heaven with the playbook launch of Radar Imaging Satellite 1 or RISAT-1 on April 26, exactly a week after the successful launch of the Agni-V long range ballistic missile. Though RISAT-1 is a remote sensing satellite built and operated by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), its strategic significance isn’t lost on the government.
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