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RESOURCESAT-2
Land Resource Monitoring · ISRO
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India's second-generation resource satellite monitors agricultural conditions across the subcontinent. Its cameras feed India's national crop estimation system — a satellite-driven program that guides food security policy for 1.4 billion people and agricultural export decisions affecting world grain markets.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbitcan appear as a fast-moving star at dawn or dusk
- Altitude
- 507–517 mi (816–832 km)
- Inclination
- 98.8°
- One orbit
- 101.2 minutes14.2 orbits a day
- NORAD ID
- 37387
- Int’l designator
- 2011-015A
- Launched
- 2011
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 22 Sep 2026.
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