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ISRO CONFIRMS LAUNCH OF
OCENASAT
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro)
has confirmed that will launch IRS-P4, Ocean Sat-1 (an oceanographic
satellite) in the first quarter of 1999. Isro chairman Dr
Kasturirangan told a local paper that the locally developed
geo-stationary launch vehicle would be blasted off into the
skies by the third quarter of 1999. He added that he was hoping
to get the number of Indian transponders in space up from
66 currently to 130 by the year 2003.
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