India successfully launched its first all-weather Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)-built imaging satellite on 20 April, which will enable it to closely monitor its restive and porous borders with Bangladesh, China and Pakistan.rnThe 300 kg Radar Imaging Satel-lite-2 (RISAT-2), equipped with a high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR), was launched from the space centre at Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)-developed polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV)C12 rocket.rn"This is the first time we are working in the microwave band. With this, the satellite can see through clouds and identify objects on the ground very precisely," said ISRO chairman Madhvan Nair.
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