IRS P5

Also called Carto Sat or Cartosat 1

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General

Designation	28649 / 05017A
Launch date	05 May 2005
Country of origin	India
Mission	Remote sensing
Perigee/Apogee	618 km sunsynchronous
Inclination	97.89°
Period	(5 day revisit)
Launch vehicle	PSLV #9

Cost: approx $57 million

Its followup, Cartosat 2, was initially planned for 2005. It will have a 1 meter resolution. It will cost Rs 2,300 million (approx $50 million)
Risat (Radar Imaging SATellite), a SAR followup was planned for 2006 (50 m resolution, 240 km swath width)

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External resources

sat-index articles

http://www.isro.org/Cartosat/

Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor	ISRO
Platform
Mass at launch	1560 kg
Mass in orbit
Dimension
Solar array
Stabilization	3-axis
DC power	1100 W
Design lifetime	5 years

Downlink: 2245.6 MHz

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Two panchromatic cameras

Wavebands
Resolution	2.5 m / 12000 pixel CCD
Swath width	30 km

120 gigabit onboard storage
These cameras are mounted with a tilt of +26 deg and -5 deg along the track with respect to nadir.

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