Cartosat-2E

Launch data: Designation  42767 / 17036C Launch date  23 Jun 2017 - 03:59 UT Launch site  Sriharikota, FLP Launch vehicle  PSLV-XL (C38) Mission  Imaging, Eart obs. Earth orbit: Perigee / Apogee  503 x 521 km Eccentricity   Inclination   97.5° Period   min

Spacecraft data:

Description:

• Cartosat-2 is an advanced remote sensing satellite with a single panchromatic camera (PAN) capable of providing scene-specific spot imageries for cartographic applications. The camera is designed to provide imageries with better than one meter spatial resolution and a swath of 10 km. The satellite will have high agility with capability to steer along and across the track up to +45 degrees. It will be placed in a sun-synchronous polar orbit at an altitude of 630 km. It will have a revisit period of four days. The re-visit can be improved to one day with suitable orbit manoeuvres.

Mission details:

• The Cartosat 2E satellite was orbited by India′s PSLV on Jun 23, 2017 together with 31 small secondary payloads. These included cubesat payloads for Finland, Slovakia and Austria and a small Latvian payload, Venta-1. The Italian amateur X-ray astronomy satellite Max Valier carries the MPE/Garching MicroROSI X-ray telescope. The VZLUSat cubesat from the Czech Republic also carries an X-ray astronomy experiment with a ′lobster-eye′ hard X-ray optic.
• The PSLV-C38 fourth stage (PS4) made a series of test burns in preparation for future launches to deploy secondary payloads in multiple orbits. After reaching an initial 510 x 518 km x 97.5 deg orbit at 0414 UTC and deploying the payloads, PS4 made a second burn at about 0457 UTC to 350 x 505 km x 97.5 deg; a third burn at about 0543 UTC to 334 x 348 km x 96.9 deg; and a fourth burn to change inclination at about 1830 UTC to 336 x 370 km x 94.6 deg.

External links:

• Satellite tracking (n2ya.com): Real time satellite tracking