Cartosat-2E
| Cartosat-2E | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Earth observation satellite |
| Country: |
 India
|
| Operator: | ISRO |
| COSPAR-ID : | 2017-036A |
| Mission dates | |
| Dimensions: | 712 kg |
| Size: | 2.4 × 2.4 × 2.5 m |
| Begin: | June 22, 2017, 3:59 UTC |
| Starting place: | Satish Dhawan Space Center |
| Launcher: | PSLV-XL C38 |
| Status: | active |
| Orbit data | |
| Rotation time : | 94.72 min |
| Track height: | 505 km |
| Orbit inclination : | 97.44 ° |
Cartosat-2E is an Indian earth observation satellite from the Indian Remote Sensing series.
It was launched on June 22, 2017 at 3:59 UTC with a PSLV-C37 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Center rocket launch site on Sriharikota . Besides Cartosat-2E were 30 Mini Satellite ( NIUSAT 15kg Canon Electric Satellite or CE SAT 1 50 kg Max Valier satellite , Venta-1 7.5 kg and the CubeSats Red Diamond, Blue Diamond and Green Diamond, eight Lemur 2 , Aalto-1, CICERO-6, D-SAT, ROBUSTA-1B, skCUBE, Suchai, Tvyak-53b, eight QB50, Pegasus or AT03, mNLP2, URSA MAIOR or IT02, NUDTSat, UCLSat, LituanicaSAT-2, VZLUSAT-1 ) brought into space. The total payload was 1378 kg.
It circles the earth in a sun-synchronous orbit and is equipped with a panchromatic camera which, by tilting the camera with a swath width of 9.6 to 400 km, delivers images with a resolution of 0.65 m in the spectral range from 500 to 850 nm. Furthermore, the satellite is equipped with a four-channel multispectral camera , which takes pictures with a swath width of 10 km and a resolution of 2 m in the spectral ranges 0.43-0.52 µm, 0.52-0.61 µm, 0.61-0 , 69 µm, 0.76-0.90 µm. By swiveling the camera, the swath width can be enlarged up to 400 km. The hexagonal satellite was built on the basis of the IRS-2 satellite bus from ISRO and has a planned lifespan of five years. The energy supply is provided by a pair of solar cell surfaces made of triple-junction solar cells, which deliver up to 986 watts of power, as well as nickel-cadmium batteries with a capacity of 18 Ah.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d PSLV-C38
- ↑ NASASpaceFlight.com: PSLV rocket launches Cartosat 2E and 30 small sats | NASASpaceFlight.com , accessed June 23, 2017.
- ↑ WMO OSCAR | Satellite: CartoSat-2E: WMO OSCAR | Satellite: CartoSat-2E , accessed June 23, 2017.
- ↑ Spaceflight 101: CartoSat-2E - PSLV C38 | Spaceflight101 , accessed June 23, 2017.
See also
Web links
- ISRO: Cartosat-2E (English)