Resourcesat-2A is a follow on mission to
Resourcesat-1 and
Resourcesat-2
Resourcesat-2 is a follow on mission to Resourcesat-1 and the eighteenth Indian remote sensing satellite built by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The new satellite provides the same services as the original Resourcesat-1, but was ...
which were launched in October 2003 and in April 2011 respectively. The new satellite provides the same services as the other Resourcesat missions. It will give regular micro and macro information on land and water bodies below, farm lands and crop extent, forests, mineral deposits, coastal information, rural and urban spreads besides helping in disaster management.
Instruments
The satellite contains three instruments on board:
* Advanced Wide-Field Sensor (AWiFS) - it operates in three spectral bands in VNIR and one band in SWIR. It provides images with 56 meter spatial resolution that would be useful at the State level.
* Linear Imaging Self-Scanning Sensor-3 (LISS-3) - it operates in three-spectral bands, two in VNIR and one in
Short Wave Infrared (SWIR) bandwidth. With 23.5 meter spatial resolution it can provide images at the district level. It has a swath of 740 km and revisit period of 5 days.
* Linear Imaging Self-Scanning Sensor-4 (LISS-4) - it operates in three spectral bands in the
Visible and Near Infrared Region (VNIR) with 5.8 meter spatial resolution that can provide information at taluk level.
It has swath of 70 km and revisit period of 5 days.
The satellite also carries two Solid State Recorders with a capacity of 200
Gigabits to store the images which can be read out later to
ground stations.
Launch
The satellite was launched aboard
PSLV-C36, the 38th flight of
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) is an expendable medium-lift launch vehicle designed and operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It was developed to allow India to launch its Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellites ...
(PSLV-XL), on 7 December 2016, at 04:54
UTC.
For the first time,
Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System
The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), with an operational name of NavIC (acronym for 'Navigation with Indian Constellation; also, 'sailor' or 'navigator' in Indian languages), is an autonomous regional satellite navigation s ...
(IRNSS) processor and receiver was used to navigate PSLV.
See also
*
List of Indian satellites
This list covers most artificial satellites built in and operated by the Republic of India. India has been successfully launching satellites of various types from 1975. Apart from Indian rockets, these satellites have been launched from various ...
References
External links
Official Website
{{Orbital launches in 2016
Earth observation satellites of India
Spacecraft launched by India in 2016
Spacecraft launched by PSLV rockets