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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
03:59:00
Friday January 12, 2018
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Cartosat-2 carries a state-of-the-art panchromatic (PAN) camera that take black and white pictures of the earth in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The swath covered by this high resolution PAN camera is 9.6 km and their spatial resolution is less than 1 metre. The satellite can be steered up to 45 degrees along as well as across the track.
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
1 Payload
680 kilograms
- Microsat-TD - LEO Vantage 1 - Carbonite 2 - ICEYE X1 - INS 1C - Arkyd 6A - CICERO 7 - Landmapper-BC 3 v2 - Lemur-2 68 to 71 - Flock-3p' 1 to 4 - PicSat - CANYVAL-X 1 & 2 - CNUSail 1 - KAUSAT 5 - SIGMA - MicroMAS 2a - GeoStare - DemoSat 2 - Fox 1D - STEP Cube Lab - SpaceBEE 1 to 4
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
31 Payloads
600 kilograms
42nd
Mission
1st
Mission of 2018
63rd
Mission
1st
Mission of 2018
4th
Orbital launch attempt