Spacetrack Directory Name | INS-1A |
Orbit launches | 2017-02-15 |
Country/organisation of origin | Indie (IND) |
Starting point | SRILR (Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India) |
Perigee | 484 km |
Apogee | 496 km |
Two science payloads. Surface BRDF Radiometer (SBR) payload that can be used measure the Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) of targets on the Earth''s surface and will be able to take readings of the sunlight reflected off different surface features. Single Event Upset Monitor (SEUM), which can be used to track Single Event Upsets that happen due to high energy radiation in space environment in Commercial, Off-the-Shelf (COTS) electronic components.
satellite INS-1A Date of exalting 15.02.2017y.