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Class: Earth. Type: Landsat. Nation: India. Agency: ISRO. Experimental satellite for conducting earth resources survey over India. Typical orbit: 381 km x 386 km at 51 degrees inclination. Mass: 442 kg (974 lb).
Bhaskara Chronology - 1971 September 1 - Soviet-Indian collaboration to build a new satellite. -
Decree 'On co-operation to build an Indian satellite' was issued.
- 1979 June 7 - Bhaskara 1 - Launch Site: Kapustin Yar. Launch Complex: LC107/1. Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 3. Mass: 441 kg (972 lb). Perigee: 394 km (244 mi). Apogee: 399 km (247 mi). Inclination: 50.70 deg. Period: 92.50 min.
Launched from a cosmodrome in the USSR. Experimental satellite for conducting earth resources survey over India.
- 1981 November 20 - Bhaskara 2 - Launch Site: Kapustin Yar. Launch Complex: LC107/2. Launch Vehicle: Kosmos 3. Mass: 444 kg (978 lb). Perigee: 368 km (228 mi). Apogee: 372 km (231 mi). Inclination: 50.60 deg. Period: 92.00 min.
Experimental earth observations. Launched from a cosmodrome in the USSR.
Bibliography:- McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page (launch records), Harvard University, 1997-present. Web Address when accessed: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.
- JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. Web Address when accessed: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html.
- McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. Web Address when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html.
- Siddiqi, Asif A, The Soviet Space Race With Apollo, University Press of Florida, 2003.
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