Spacetrack Directory Name | ALSAT 1N |
Orbit launches | 2016-09-26 |
Country/organisation of origin | Algieria (ALG) |
Starting point | SRILR (Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India) |
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Perigee | 658 km |
Apogee | 700 km |
Blacksky Pathfinder-1 is an earth imaging satellite of Spaceflight Industries. The satellite is equipped with payloads from Harris Corporation designed to image an area approximately 4.4 km x 6.6 km at 1-meter resolution.This is first in a series of 60 satellites planned to deploy the BlackSky constellation that will provide near real-time images in about 90 minutes to produce images that are more current and wide-ranging to increase global transparency.The satellite was launched on 26 September 2016 by ISRO using the PSLV-C35 rocket.
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