INSAT 3D, India’s Weather satellite that was launched successfully early morning on Friday is functioning normally.

The Master Control facility at Hassan in Karnataka is tracking the satellite and orbit raising manoeuvre is under progress.

Director (Publicity) of ISRO Karnik told Bangalore Correspondent that the satellite is being moved from geo synchronous transfer orbit to geo stationary orbit at 36000 kms.

The meteorological payloads in the satellite will be turned on in the second week of next month.

An indigenously designed and developed INSAT-3D Meteorological Data Processing System is installed at the Meteorological Department in New Delhi with a mirror site at Space Applications Centres in Bopal and Ahmedabad.

These centres will collate data from the satellite to give accurate weather report of the country.

ISRO will focus on end-to-end reception and processing of INSAT-3D data and the derivation of meteorological parameters along with India Meteorological Department.