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Class: Earth. Type: Landsat. Nation: India. Agency: Indian Space Research Organization. Remote sensing; sun-synch orbit.
SpecificationTotal Mass: 870 kg.
IRS-P Chronology
15 October 1994
IRS-P2 Launch Site: Sriharikota . Launch Vehicle: PSLV. Mass: 870 kg. Perigee: 818 km. Apogee: 820 km. Inclination: 98.7 deg. Remote sensing; sun-synch orbit.
26 May 1999
OceanSat 1 Launch Site: Sriharikota . Launch Vehicle: PSLV. Mass: 1,036 kg. Perigee: 716 km. Apogee: 738 km. Inclination: 98.4 deg. Remote sensing satellite with an ocean colour imager experiment.
Bibliography:- 2 - McDowell, Jonathan, The United Nations Registry of Space Objects, Harvard University, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/QEDT/jcm/space/un/un.html
- 6 - JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html
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