Spacetrack Directory Name | INS-1B |
Orbit launches | 2017-02-15 |
Country/organisation of origin | Indie (IND) |
Starting point | SRILR (Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India) |
Perigee | 484 km |
Apogee | 495 km |
Carries two science payloads. EELA keeps track of terrestrial exospheric line-of-sight neutral atomic hydrogen Lyman Alpha flux and can give an estimate for the interplanetary hydrogen Lyman Alpha background flux by means of deep space observations. The Origami Camera is a remote sensing colour camera that can take high-resolution pictures of the Earth with a small package.
satellite INS-1B Date of exalting 15.02.2017y.