Sriharikota: ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair on Monday denied that RISAT-2, which was launched by PSLV C-12, was an Israeli spy satellite.
Addressing a press conference after the launch at the SHAR centre, he said ''there is nothing like a spy satellite in our agenda. We have only earth observation satellite, communication satellite and scientific satellite''.
''RISAT-2 is another earth observation satellite. I want to clarify that'', he said, adding ''there is nothing like a spy satellite at ISRO.''
The satellite was purchased from Israel, he said and added another RISAT slated for launch this year, would be owned and operated by ISRO for data acquisition.
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