Mission type | Earth Imaging |
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Operator | BlackSky Global |
Website | www |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 23:42:00, September 26, 2016 |
Contractor | Indian Space Research Organisation |
Blacksky Pathfinder-1 is an earth imaging satellite of Spaceflight Industries. The satellite is equipped with payloads from Harris Corporation designed to image an area approximately 4.4km x 6.6km at 1-meter resolution.
This is first in a series of 60 satellites planned to deploy the BlackSky constellation that will provide near real-time images in about 90 minutes to produce images that are more current and wide-ranging to increase global transparency.
The satellite was launched on 26 September 2016 by ISRO using the PSLV-C35 rocket.