PISat
PISat | |
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Type: | Earth observation satellite |
Country: | India |
Operator: | PESIT |
COSPAR-ID : | 2016-059B |
Mission dates | |
Dimensions: | 5.25 kg |
Size: | 25.4 × 25.6 × 18.1 cm cuboid |
Begin: | September 26, 2016 at 03:42 UTC |
Starting place: | SHAR FLP |
Launcher: | PSLV-G |
Status: | in operation |
Orbit data | |
Rotation time : | 98.4 min |
Orbit inclination : | 98.2 ° |
Apogee height : | 712 km |
Perigee height : | 668 km |
PISat ( P ESIT I maging satellite ) is an Indian earth observation and technology testing satellite from PES University in India .
Furnishing
PISat is a nanosatellite . It is equipped with a NanoCam. It is a CMOS color camera for Earth observation experiments built by GomSpace in Denmark. It serves as an imaging instrument to record the surface with a resolution of about 80 meters.
It is powered by solar cells and batteries.
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Pisat was on 26 September 2016 a PSLV - launcher along with SCATSAT-1 , Alsat-1B and 2B , Alsat-1N , BlackSky Pathfinder 1 , Pratham and 7 CanX from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in a low earth orbit brought.
Web links
- PISat on Gunter's Space Page (English).
- PISat at eoportal.org (English).
- PISat on the operator's website.