Cartosat-1

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Cartosat-1
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Cartosat-1 satellite
NamesIRS-P5
Indian Remote Sensing Satellite-P5
Mission type Earth observation
Operator NTRO
COSPAR ID 2005-017A OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
SATCAT no. 28649
Website https://www.isro.gov.in/
Mission duration5 years (planned)
14 years (achieved)
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftIRS-P5
Bus IRS-1 [1]
Manufacturer Indian Space Research Organisation
Launch mass1,560 kg (3,440 lb) [2]
Power1100 watts [2]
Start of mission
Launch date5 May 2005, 04:44:00 UTC [3]
Rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C6) [4]
Launch site Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Second Launch Pad (SLP) [4]
Contractor ISRO
Entered serviceAugust 2005
End of mission
Deactivated5 May 2019 [5]
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric orbit [3]
Regime Sun-synchronous orbit
Perigee altitude 620 km (390 mi)
Apogee altitude 622 km (386 mi)
Inclination 97.87°
Period 97.1 minutes

Cartosat-1 (formerly IRS-P5) is a stereoscopic Earth observation satellite in a Sun-synchronous orbit, and the first one of the Cartosat series of satellites. The eleventh satellite of ISRO in Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS) series. The satellite was launched by Indian Space Research Organisation and is operated by NTRO. Weighing around 1560 kg at launch, its applications will mainly be towards cartography in India.

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Launch

It was launched by PSLV-C6, on 5 May 2005 at 04:44:00 UTC from the newly built Second Launch Pad at Sriharikota. [6] Images from the satellite will be available from GeoEye for worldwide distribution. The satellite covers the entire globe in 1867 orbits on a 126-day cycle. Adjacent paths are covered by a separation of eleven days. [7]

History

Department of Space (DOS), government of India, has launched a series of satellites for Earth's resource management and monitoring. These satellites have been very successful in providing data in various scales ranging from 1:1 million to 1:12,500 scale. [7] Each of the Indian Remote Sensing satellite missions ensured data continuity while introducing improvements in the spatial, spectral and radiometric resolutions. Considering increase demand for large scale and topographic mapping data DOS launched the Cartosat-1 in 2005. Cartosat-1 is dedicated to stereo viewing for large scale mapping and terrain modelling.

Specifications

Payload

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 the electromagnetic spectrum. The swath covered by these high resolution PAN cameras is 30 km and their spatial resolution is 2.5 metres. For acquire two images simultaneously, one forward (PAN FORE) looking at +26° and one aft (PAN AFT) of the satellite at -5° for near instantaneous stereo data. The time difference between the acquisitions of the same scene by the two cameras is about 52 seconds. [7] The spacecraft body is steerable to compensate the Earth rotation effect and to force both fore and aft cameras to look at the same ground strip when operated in stereo mode. 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.

Communications

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. The National Remote Sensing Centre is responsible for acquisition, processing of data relayed by the Cartosat-1. A spherical Phased Array Antenna with steerable beam is used to transmit the data to the required ground station. A solid state recorder with 120 Gb capacity to store about 9 minutes of payload data is available for global operation of the payloads. The stored images can be transmitted when the satellite comes within the visibility zone of a ground station.

Optics and detectors

Each Panchromatic camera consists of three 3 mirror off-axis all reflective telescope with primary, secondary and tertiary mirrors. These mirrors are made from special zerodur glass blanks and are light weighted to about 60%. These mirrors are polished to an accuracy of l/80 and are coated with enhanced aluminium oxide (AlO2) coating. In order to meet the high resolution and the swath requirement a 12K, 7 μm linear array charge-coupled device (CCD) is used as a detector. [8]

Imaging capabilities

Spatial resolution

Temporal resolution

The revisit rate for Cartosat-1 is five days. [8]

Radiometric resolution

The sensor collects data with a 10-bit sensitivity. [8]

Swath

30 km (PAN-F) and 25 km (PAN-A) [8]

See also

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