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NIUSAT [NIU]
NIUSAT is a Nano satellite designed and developed by Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education under Noorul Islam University with a Miniature Wide Field Sensor (MWiFS) for agriculture and disaster management support applications.
The 15 kg NIUSAT features a RGP camera with a ground resolution of 25 m and a frame size of 50 km × 50 km.
The imagery from the NIUSAT is used for identifying potential agricultural diseases of the crops around Kanya Kumari District and providing timely assistance to the Disaster Management Support (DMS) programme to address disasters due to flood, cyclone, drought, forest fire, landslide and earthquakes.
The NIUSAT satellite project is a Noorul Islam University program, involving students and staff of the university, making use of the state-of-the art proven technologies and modules.
| Nation: | India |
|---|---|
| Type / Application: | Earth observation |
| Operator: | Noorul Islam University (NIU) |
| Contractors: | Noorul Islam University (NIU) |
| Equipment: | Miniature Wide Field Sensor (MWiFS) |
| Configuration: | |
| Propulsion: | None |
| Power: | 4 deployable fixed solar arrays, batteries |
| Lifetime: | |
| Mass: | 15 kg |
| Orbit: | 496 km × 517 km, 97.45 |
| Satellite | COSPAR | Date | LS | Launch Vehicle | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NIUSAT (Keralshree) | 2017-036B | 23.06.2017 | Sr FLP | PSLV-XL | with Cartosat 2E, CE-SAT 1, Max Valier Sat, Venta 1, CICERO 6, Lemur-2 34, ..., 41, Blue Diamond, Green Diamond, Red Diamond, COMPASS 2, InflateSail, LituanicaSAT 2, URSA MAIOR, NUDTSat, Pegasus, UCLSat, VZLUsat 1, D-Sat, PACSCISAT, Aalto 1, ROBUSTA 1B, SUCHAI, skCUBE, IDEA |
Launch Sites:
- Sr = Satish Dhawan Space Center (Sriharikota Space Center), Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India
