Cartosat-2F & Rideshares

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

03:59:00

Friday January 12, 2018

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Cartosat-2F

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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

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

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

31 Payloads

600 kilograms

Rocket

Active
PSLV-XL

Active Since 2008

Indian Space Research Organisation logo

Agency

ISRO

Price

$31.00 million

Rocket

Height: 44m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 3,250 kg

GTO: 1,410 kg

Liftoff Thrust

7,661 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 3.2m

Height: 8.3m

Stages

4

Strap-ons

6

Launch Site

First Launch Pad

Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Fastest Turnaround

25 days 5 hours

Stats

PSLV


42nd

Mission

1st

Mission of 2018

Indian Space Research Organisation


63rd

Mission

1st

Mission of 2018

2018


4th

Orbital launch attempt