ISRO Successfully Launches RESOURCESAT-2A Remote Sensing Satellite

ISRO Successfully Launches RESOURCESAT-2A Remote Sensing Satellite




In its thirty-eighth flight (PSLV-C36), ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle successfully launched the 1235 kg RESOURCESAT-2A Satellite December 07, 2016 morning from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. This is the thirty-seventh consecutively successful mission of PSLV.

After a flight of 17 minutes 05 seconds, the vehicle achieved a polar Sun Synchronous Orbit of 824 km height inclined at an angle of 98.725 degrees to the equator (very close to the intended orbit) and 47 seconds later, RESOURCESAT-2A was separated from the PSLV fourth stage.

Like its predecessors RESOURCESAT-1 and 2, RESOURCESAT-2A has a unique 3-Tier imaging system with Advanced Wide Field Sensor (AWiFS), Linear Imaging Self Scanner-3 (LISS-3) and Linear Imaging Self Scanner-4 (LISS-4) cameras.

  1. The AWiFS provides images with a sampling of 56 meters, a swath of 740 km and a revisit of 5 days
  2. The LISS-3 provides 23.5 meters sampled images with 141 km swath and a repeatability of 24 days.
  3. The LISS-4 provides 5.8 meters sampled images with 70 km swath and a revisit of 5 days.
RESOURCESAT-2A in clean room during its integration. Credit: ISRO

RESOURCESAT-2A in clean room during its integration.
Credit: ISRO

The data sent by RESOURCESAT-2A  will be useful for agricultural applications like crop area and crop production estimation, drought monitoring, soil mapping, cropping system analysis and farm advisories generation.

With today’s launch, the PSLV has yet again demonstrated its reliability.  The total number of satellites launched by India’s workhorse launch vehicle PSLV including today’s RESOURCESAT-2A has now reached 122, of which 43 are Indian and the remaining 79 are from abroad.

Source: ISRO




Categories: Remote Sensing

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