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2024 Apr 20
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Sun-synchronous Satellites - India

This a list of satellites in sun-synchronous orbit operated by India ordered by LTDN - Local Time at the Descending Node. Names are not necessarily those by which they are known in the NORAD catalogue used by SpaceTrack.

It is a snapshot and is updated daily. The measure that results in an entry in this table is that the drift rate of LTDN (Local Time at the Descending Node) is no more than twenty four minutes each year. Some satellites may have higher drift rates but they may still be acceptable to their owners/operators. They do not appear here. On the converse, although a satellite is in a sun-synchronous orbit, it is not necessarily active.

Updated: 2024 Apr 20, 02:48 UTC

LTDN Satellite Cat
no
Desig- nation Orbit
Epoch
Orbit
03:12IMS 1 (Indian Mini Satellite)327862008-021D2024 Apr 19585 x 597 km, 96.5 min, 97°.8
06:00EOS 04 (Earth Observation Satellite 4)516562022-013A2024 Apr 19526 x 529 km, 95.2 min, 97°.5
08:22ScatSat 1 (Scatterometer Satellite 1)417902016-059H2024 Apr 19718 x 722 km, 99.2 min, 98°.2
09:21Cartosat 3448042019-081A2024 Apr 19501 x 516 km, 94.8 min, 97°.5
09:27Cartosat 2B367952010-035A2024 Apr 19625 x 642 km, 97.4 min, 97°.9
09:28Cartosat 2A327832008-021A2024 Apr 19624 x 643 km, 97.4 min, 97°.9
09:28Cartosat 2C415992016-040A2024 Apr 19500 x 515 km, 94.8 min, 97°.4
09:30Cartosat 2D419482017-008A2024 Apr 19504 x 512 km, 94.8 min, 97°.4
09:30Cartosat 2E427672017-036C2024 Apr 19504 x 512 km, 94.8 min, 97°.4
09:31Cartosat 2F431112018-004A2024 Apr 19507 x 510 km, 94.8 min, 97°.4
09:31EMISat (Electromagnetic Intelligence-gathering Satellite)440782019-018A2024 Apr 19732 x 760 km, 99.7 min, 98°.3
09:50HySIS437192018-096A2024 Apr 19631 x 635 km, 97.4 min, 97°.9
09:59Resourcesat 2373872011-015A2024 Apr 19817 x 822 km, 101.3 min, 98°.6
10:02IRS 1A189601988-021A2024 Apr 19894 x 914 km, 103.1 min, 99°.0
10:15Carbonite-2431152018-004E2024 Apr 19442 x 453 km, 93.5 min, 97°.3
10:28Resourcesat 2A418772016-074A2024 Apr 19819 x 821 km, 101.3 min, 98°.6
12:01EOS 06 (Earth Observation Satellite 6)543612022-158A2024 Apr 19734 x 736 km, 99.5 min, 98°.3
13:23AFR 1 (ABA First Runner)569642023-084AJ2024 Apr 19507 x 525 km, 95.0 min, 97°.5
17:53SARAL (Satellite with ARgos and ALtiKa)390862013-009A2024 Apr 19782 x 786 km, 100.5 min, 98°.6

For the satellites that do not have formal published elements, thanks go to the radio and visual amateur satellite trackers for their observing, and particularly to Mike McCants for archiving the derived orbits.

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