There are two types of remote sensing instrument on board RESURS-O1.
The MSU-E
is comparable with instruments on other satellites, such as Landsat, while the
MSU-SK
offers perspectives of the Earth that have never been available
before. It has a wide swath and medium resolution, and bridges the enormous gap
in coverage and detail between SPOT/Landsat TM and NOAA AVHRR. It makes it an ideal
complement to both of these data sets, better defining the regional context of
a local study, or giving focus at regional scales to a continental survey.
Technical Information
|
launch date
|
4 November 1994
|
|
orbit
|
sun-synchronous, circular
|
|
average altitude
|
678 km
|
|
inclination
|
98.04
|
|
eccentricity
|
0.0128
|
|
argument of perigee
|
88.93
|
|
cycle
|
21 days
|
|
orbit period
|
98 minutes
|
|
satellite mass
|
1950 kg
|
|
scientific payload mass
|
550 kg
|
|
attitude control
|
orbital, triaxial, active
|
|
data transfer rate
|
7.68 Mbits/s
|
|
down-link frequency
|
8192 MHz
|
|
design lifetime
|
2 years
|
|
launched from
|
Baikonur
|
|
carrier
|
Zenit
|
|
