Orbit Altitude: 817 km
Orbit Inclination: 98.69 deg
Equator Crossing: 10:30 A.M
Period: 101.35 min
Repeat Cycle: 24 Days
Orbit Type: LEO > Low Earth Orbit > Polar Sun-Synchronous

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The fourth in the IRS series, IRS - 1C was launched from Baikanur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on May 19, 1995. It operates in a near polar, sun- synchronous orbit at an altitude of 817km. Its local ... equatorial crossing time is 10:30 A.M in the descending node. The satellite payload consists of three sensors, namely Panchromatic camera (PAN), Linear Imaging and Self-Scanning Sensor (LISS - III) and Wide Field Sensor (WiFS).

The PAN camera provides data with a spatial resolution of 5.8m and a ground swath of 70 km at nadir view. This camera can be steered up to +/- 26 degrees, which can be used to acquire stereo pairs and this also improves the revisit capability to 5 days.

LISS - III camera provides multi-spectral data in 4 bands. The spatial resolution for visible (two bands) and near infrared (one band) is 23.5m with a ground swath of 141 km. The fourth band (short wave infrared band) has a spatial resolution of 70.5m with a ground swath of 148 km. The repetivity of LISS - III is 24 days.

WiFS camera collects data in two spectral bands with a spatial resolution of 188m and a ground swath of 810 km. By virtue of its wide swath there is huge side lap between adjacent paths. A repetivity of 3 days can be achieved by suitably combining paths.

The satellite is equipped with an On Board Tape Recorder (OBTR) with a capacity of 62 Gb, for collecting data outside the visibility region of any ground station. The OBTR was capable of storing data collected for 24 minutes. The OBTR was functional during 1995-1998.

[Summary provided by the Indian Remote Sensing Agency.]

http://www.isro.gov.in/satellites/irs-1c.aspx