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Carbonite 2 [SSTL]
The Carbonite 2 satellite, also known as VividX2 (formerly called EiX2), features enhanced avionics to provide increased data storage, faster data downlink, improved pointing accuracy, and a full colour HD video camera.
Several improvements over Carbonite 1 have been introduced:
- Improved geolocation by the addition of a star camera
- Improved telescope and imager design
- Improved data capacity by a factor of x16 with two deployable solar arrays and greater memory capacity and data downlink
- Includes experimentation with additive design technologies, evolutionary design techniques and 3D printing
It was launched in early 2018 serves as the prototype for Earth-i's Vivid-i constellation. Apparently the Royal Air Force (RAF) it the exclusive customer for image data from this satellite.
| Nation: | UK |
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| Type / Application: | Technology, Earth observation |
| Operator: | SSTL |
| Contractors: | SSTL |
| Equipment: | |
| Configuration: | SSTL-42 |
| Propulsion: | None |
| Power: | Solar cells, batteries |
| Lifetime: | |
| Mass: | 100 kg |
| Orbit: | 493 km × 505 km, 97.56° |
| Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
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| Carbonite 2 (CBNT 2, EiX2, VividX2) | 2018-004E | 12.01.2018 | Sr FLP | PSLV-XL | with Cartosat 2F, Microsat-TD, LEO Vantage 1, ICEYE X1, INS 1C, Arkyd 6A, CICERO 7, Landmapper-BC 3 v2, Lemur-2 68, ..., 71, Flock-3p' 1, ..., 4, MicroMAS 2a, PicSat, CANYVAL-X 1, 2, CNUSail 1, KAUSAT 5, SIGMA, DemoSat 2, GeoStare, Fox 1D, STEP Cube Lab, SpaceBEE 1, ..., 4 |
Launch Sites:
- Sr = Satish Dhawan Space Center (Sriharikota Space Center), Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India
References:
- SSTL: CARBONITE-1
- Alex da Silva Curiel, Andrew Haslehurst, Kieran OBrien, Nimal Navarathinam, et al.: Watching the world go by
Further Carbonite (CBNT) missions:
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Further Vivid-i missions:
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