IRS P2

IRS P2 [ISRO]

IRS-P2 (Indian Remote Sensing Satellite) was an Indian experimental earth observation satellite.

The satellite was based on the IRS 1 design, which had already flown on Soviet launch vehicles.

It carried a imaging payload consisting of the LISS-2M instrument, which was in fact two identical solid state Push Broom Cameras, called LISS-2A and LISS-2B using a single optical feed with four lenses in one optical head, operating in four spectral bands in the visible and near-IR range using CCD arrays. The ground resolution was 32.74 m.

IRS-P2 was launched on the second flight of the PSLV-G (1) launch vehicle in October 1994. The IRS-P2 spacecraft continued in operations until September 1997.