Central University of Jammu and NRSC (ISRO) successfully launch 23rd Radiosonde from Satish Dhawan Centre for Space Sciences

JAMMU: The 23rd Radiosonde was successfully launched today under the MOU between National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC, ISRO) and Central University of Jammu from the Satish Dhawan Centre for Space Sciences, Central University of Jammu under the able guidance of Hon'ble Vice Chancellor, Prof. Sanjeev Jain. Prof. Rakesh Kumar Jha, Convener Satish Dhawan Centre for Space Science along with his dedicated  faculty, technical team, students, scholars and staff successfully culminated the launch.

Weather Balloon along with the GPS aided Radiosonde, i.e. The Pisharoty Sonde measures the vertical profiles of Temperature, Relative humidity, pressure, wind speed, direction, altitude, time and location by using Sensors and GPS receiver modules. The software used is developed under ISRO called Indian Radiosonde Software (IndRoS).

This Radiosonde Ground Station is indigenously developed in the Semi conductor Laboratory (SCL), Mohali, a make in India product under the Director General Dr. Kamaljeet Singh and Mr. Nemi Chand. The event was coordinated by Dr. Sanjeev Yadav, faculty Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, CU Jammu along with his team Dr. Haneet Kour, Ms. Mehak Mahajan (Senior Technical Assistant), Antusha Dogra, Bineesh, Anup, Anubhav, Amrit, pratyush and team.

The data collected from Radiosonde will contribute in the field of meteorological studies related to the Climate change, atmospheric studies and Space research, under the National Information System for Climate and Environment Studies (NICES) RANN (Radiosonde Network for NIECES) Project with National Remote Sensing Centre in collaboration with Dr. Hareef Baba Shaeb K, Scientist, Atmospheric Sciences Division, Earth and Climate Science Area, NRSC, Government of India, Department of Space (ISRO), Hyderabad.