- CARTOSAT-1
Infobox Spacecraft
Name = Cartosat 1
Organisation = ISRO
Mission_Type =Cartography
Mission_Duration = 5 years
Satellite_Of = Earth
Launch =May 5 2005 , 04:44:00 UTC
Carrier_Rocket = PSLV
NSSDC_ID = 2005-017A
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Mass = 1560.0 kg
Power = 46 W from solar panels
Orbital_elements = Yes
Orbit_regime = Sun-SynchronousCircular orbit
Orbital_Period = 97.1 minutes
Apoapsis = km to mi|620.0|spell=commonwealth|wiki=yes
Periapsis = km to mi|622.0|spell=commonwealth|wiki=yes
Eccentricity = 1.4287754E-4
Inclination = 97.9°CARTOSAT 1 is a stereoscopic
Earth observation satellite in asun-synchronous orbit . The satellite was built, launched and maintained by theIndian Space Research Organisation . Weighing around 1560 kg at launch, its applications will mainly be towardscartography inIndia . It was launched by thePSLV on5 May ,2005 from the newly built second launch pad atSriharikota . Images from the satellite will be available fromGeoEye for worldwide distribution.CARTOSAT-1 carries two state-of-the-art
panchromatic (PAN) cameras that take black and white stereoscopic pictures of the earth in the visible region of theelectromagnetic spectrum . The swath covered by these high resolution PAN cameras is 30 km and their spatial resolution is 2.5 metres. The cameras are mounted on the satellite in such a way that near simultaneous imaging of the same area from two different angles is possible. This facilitates the generation of accurate three-dimensional maps. The cameras are steerable across the direction of the satellite's movement to facilitate the imaging of an area more frequently. The images taken by CARTOSAT-1 cameras are compressed, encrypted, formatted and transmitted to the ground stations. The images are reconstructed from the data received at the ground stations.CARTOSAT-1 also carries a solid state recorder with a capacity of 120 Giga Bits to store the images taken by its cameras. The stored images can be transmitted when the satellite comes within the visibility zone ofa ground station.
ee also
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CARTOSAT-2
*Cartosat-2A External links
* [http://isro.org/Cartosat/ ISRO Cartosat 1 Site]
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