Former ISRO Dy Director SV Sharma On 'How 'Anvesha' Boosts ISRO-DRDO Collaboration'

Former ISRO Deputy Director S.V. Sharma explains the strategic significance of the Anvesha satellite, also known as EOS-N1, and how it represents increased cooperation between India's top space agency and defense research department in an exclusive Republic interview. The Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) created Anvesha, a hyperspectral Earth observation satellite that greatly enhances India's space surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, with launch assistance from ISRO's PSLV-C62 mission. Its capacity to record data at hundreds of wavelengths will benefit defense and civilian activities in previously unheard-of ways.