IRS P6

Also called Resource Sat or Resourcesat

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General

Designation	28050 / 03046A
Launch date	17 Oct 2003
Country of origin	India
Mission	Remote sensing
Perigee/Apogee	821 km, sunsynchronous
Inclination	98.7°
Period	101 min
Launch vehicle	PSLV #8

Would have a 3-band spectral camera with a 6 m resolution and could be used for select mapping with its advance wide field sensor. It would be very effective during floods with its 1,400 km swath.

Other sources claim the satellite will have a LISS 3 instrument (23 m resolution) and a LISS 4 (6 m resolution + a AWiFS instrument.

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External resources

sat-index articles

Technical data

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Specifications

Prime contractor	ISRO
Platform
Mass at launch	1360 kg
Mass in orbit
Dimension
Solar array
Stabilization
DC power
Design lifetime

Downlink: 2250.7 MHz

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LISS 3 (Linear Imaging Self Scanner) with CCD detector arrays

Wavebands	Green: 0.52-0.59 µm Red: 0.62-0.68 µm Near Infrared: 0.77-0.86 µm SW Infrared: 1.55-1.70 µm
Resolution	23 m
Swath width	140 km

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LISS 4 (Linear Imaging Self Scanner)

Wavebands	3 bands
Resolution	5.8 m
Swath width	23.5 km

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AwiFS

Wavebands	3 bands
Resolution	56 m
Swath width	740 km

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