NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Cartosat-2F & Rideshares

Launch Time
Fri Jan 12, 2018 03:59 UTC

Rocket

PSLV-XL
ISRO
Status: Active
Price: $31.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 7,661 kN
Payload to LEO: 3,250 kg
Payload to GTO: 1,410 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 6
Rocket Height: 44.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 3.2 m
Fairing Height: 8.3 m

Mission Details

Cartosat-2F

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.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 680.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Rideshares

- 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

Payloads: 31
Total Mass: 600.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Location

First Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Stats

2018

4th orbital launch attempt

Indian Space Research Organisation

63rd mission
1st mission of 2018
50th successful mission
1st consecutive successful mission

PSLV

42nd mission
1st mission of 2018
39th successful mission
1st consecutive successful mission