INS 1B (ISRO Nanosatellite)

INS 1B
Spacecraft INS 1B (ISRO Nanosatellite)
Type Nanosatellite
Units or mass 9.7 kg
Status Reentry 2023-10-13. No signal? (No public news found)
Launched 2017-02-15
NORAD ID 41954
Deployer Base mounted
Launcher PSLV
Organisation ISRO
Institution Space agency
Entity type Government (Civil / Military)
Headquarters India
Oneliner

Radiometer to measure reflected sunlight from Earth and Single Event Upsets monitor.

Description

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.

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Last modified: 2023-10-21

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