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Class: Earth. Type: Landsat. Nation: India. Indian Remote Sensing Satellite. Operational remote sensing of the Earth for natural resources management applications.
SpecificationTotal Mass: 1,250 kg.
IRS Chronology
17 March 1988
IRS-1A Launch Site: Baikonur . Launch Vehicle: Vostok 8A92M. Mass: 975 kg. Perigee: 894 km. Apogee: 912 km. Inclination: 98.8 deg. Indian remote sensing; 1st Soviet commercial launch. Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A). Operational remote sensing of the Earth for natural resources management applications. Also registered by the USSR as object no. 2387 in ST/SG/SER.E/182 and orbital parameters 102.7 min, 863 x 917 km x 99.01 deg.
29 August 1991
IRS-1B Launch Site: Baikonur . Launch Vehicle: Vostok 8A92M. Mass: 980 kg. Perigee: 890 km. Apogee: 917 km. Inclination: 99.1 deg. Remote sensing; launched commercially by USSR. Operational remote sensing satellite for natural resources management.
20 September 1993
IRS-1E Launch Site: Sriharikota . Launch Vehicle: PSLV. FAILURE: Failure.
28 December 1995
IRS-1C Launch Site: Baikonur . Launch Vehicle: Molniya 8K78M. Mass: 1,250 kg. Perigee: 805 km. Apogee: 817 km. Inclination: 98.6 deg. Indian Remote Sensing Satellite.
21 March 1996
IRS-P3 Launch Site: Sriharikota . Launch Vehicle: PSLV. Mass: 930 kg. Perigee: 818 km. Apogee: 821 km. Inclination: 98.8 deg. LEO
29 September 1997
IRS-1D Launch Site: Sriharikota . Launch Vehicle: PSLV. Perigee: 737 km. Apogee: 827 km. Inclination: 98.6 deg.
Bibliography:- 4 - McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Report (Internet Newsletter), Harvard University, Weekly, 1989 to Present. HTML when accessed: ftp://sao-ftp.harvard.edu/pub/jcm/space/news
- 6 - JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html
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